All poems and stories

  • If you cannot let me be me, let me be!

    Life would be so much easier if it were not for people. They all try to conform to what is normal, but nobody knows what that is. I believe normal is this: people are strange. Many are often overly critical of others while giving themselves lots of leeway. Each one believes themselves to be the…

  • Dead letter box, a short sad story

    Jesus hates this part of the job. He and the Buddha take turns, each performing this task every other day, but it is still too much to bear. The Buddha seems unbothered by the letters. It seems to have deepened his love for the human condition, if such a thing were even possible. Jesus, on…

  • Haste to waste, a very short story

    Haste killed the world as we knew it, not hate. AI was the killer. Not because it became self-aware and wanted to protect itself, but simply because it was made in haste. Greedy corporations were given free rein to pursue artificial superintelligence by power-hungry governments that sought to use AI to gain more power. Since…

  • House of god, a very short story

    God has lived in the same house since creation. It is a simple dwelling on the northeastern coast of Ireland, facing Scotland. God chose Ireland because it reminded him of home, and he chose the location of his single-bedroom bungalow for the beautiful views. The property is a little over 3 acres, nestled between the…

  • What a pair! a poem

    John and Paul were right. All you need is love. The Beatles, not the apostles. To know unbounded love must be heavenly. Love that does not limit, inhibit, or prescribe. Why do we struggle so with it? When we love someone, we want to change them, make them something else! This is not love, but…