SHORT STUFF: from Aught Six

RACHEL OF A THOUSAND SMILES
Rachel of a thousand smiles
Will you sit with me awhile?
Whichever way, don't tell your Dad
It's his keys unlock my pad.
February 9, 2006

VALENTINE'S DAY BEHIND BARS
Valentine's Day behind bars
The men are all tattooing
The war between Venus and Mars
Means there's no one left for wooing.
February 13, 2006

FIDDLE-DEE-DEE
I'm yet unsure what survives the spree
Who says what's good in life is free?
The cost was big as big can be
But in the end, fiddle-dee-dee.
February 23, 2006

RAMSHACKLE SHACK
In my ramshackle shack
  Where the wind passes through
Just me and my cat
  (And thoughts of you.)
March 14, 2006

I WAS NOT EVEN THERE
You say I enslaved you
  Oppressed your people, too
But I was not even there
  Were you?
March 30, 2006

LOVE COMES AGAIN
Love comes again
  He moves my pen
    He's kith and kin
      I missed my friend.
April 3, 2006

A DISCOVERY
Not so much an encounter
  As a discovery
    Of you
      Inside me.
April 5, 2006.

EVERY SLOPE IS SLIPPERY
Every slope is slippery
  Denuded of its frippery.
May 28, 2006

'TWAS HEAVEN SENT ME TO YOU
'Twas Heaven sent me to you
  Sent me from Above
To make your wings fly true
  To fill your heart with love.
May 31, 2006

HIS SINS BECOME YOURS
If you slavishly follow
  His ways on all fours
Your dreams become hollow
  His sins become yours.
June 1, 2006

THAT'S NO CRIME
On the line between
  The ridiculous and the sublime
I lost my way
  (But that's no crime.)
June 4, 2006

THE GODS OF POKER
The gods of poker
  Procrastinate
    They sent a king
      But sent it late.
June 10, 2006

MY PATH
Though my path be
  Dark and scary
I see it all
  As necessary.
June 17, 2006