Burgled

We went to Maui and got burgled twice. Here is a link to the narrative of events:

http://realhawaii.blogspot.com/ under this date

and here are some poems about how I feel with all of this:


Pursesnatcher

You forgot
that you also took
a boomerang
of grief with my cash
so watch out
it will return

meantime
may the Mother of All Regrets
suckle you
at her bitter teets
and instill the losses in you
which you'd hoped
to pass on to me

and I accepted for a day

Now you can have it back
and I'd like
a return of my
sense of peace
decency
clean actions

I wish you no ill
but the hobbling
of your haste
to self destruct
which caused you
to try to take me
with you

Thanks
but I'll stay here
at center.



I Did Not Invite The Fool

Never, you say, do that
I should know
better
and my fault
that others prey
but I say
I did not invite the fool
to take mine from me
any more than you
will invite death

It happens
whether we are wise
or not
and lock our doors
or not

losses will amass
as do possessions
and both come to nothing
soon enough.

The other way, I've learned,
is to choose
the flow
where it will go
just before
it would have been taken

...a little trick
to outwit the fools
and send my kind
of invitations.



Sentimental Value

Hey You,
with my wallet
from a friend from Japan made in Italy
with a small card full of Engrish
(which still makes me smile
though you stole it
from my reading)

I cannot share with you
more than cash
the friendship
of such value
because you cannot grasp
cannot grasp
the unbreakable treasure
and thus
must settle for shards
of your broken life
a violent void
empty of the emotions required by
friendship
humor
generosity
compassion

All obliterated
by your ethic of addiction
My invisible wealth
remains untouchable
to your clenched
sticky
blind
fingers