Flashes of Asperger’s

Photo from Wikipedia I do unto othersTo give a hand, because that’s what I doPart of the pillars of my lifeThe meaningMy purpose. NOT because I want others to do unto me. And I seeIn my dreamsWhen I walk my last mileAmid arms, reaching out to hug meTo thank mePeople I never knew would want […]

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32. streetwise mid humanity

Photo by Ivan Babydov from Pexels Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout rain! …I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness …You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave.                              -King Lear Summer in the 2020’s. In a yard some distance outside a convent three homeless men and one homeless woman: 

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Three Pillars (Piece Two)

Photo by cottonbro from Pexels Even a roseLike a poetCannot thrive out of the light. Each of usA different lightIn search of an opening light. For we are not madeTo hide our lightBeneath a barrelBut to glow with joy from within. We search among the three pillars of our beingInto unknown territoriesTo release the dark easy of nonfulfillment.

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31. streetwise and homeless

Photo by MART PRODUCTION from Pexels Summer. Under an expressway overpass three homeless men – JAKE (wearing a straw hat), JOE YA-KNOW (with a singer’s deep voice), and RATTLER (with a limp) – are busy laying out their plans and design for constructing a shed. Two-by-fours, sheets of plywood, corrugated roofing panels, and other materials are resting on

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