mediocre

WHy keep on
    with the mediocre?

    Like this pen.

I feel like I shouldn't
    waste things.

Which isn't a bad idea,
    but if it is applied
    too rigidly and keeps you
    in a rut,
  isn't so helpful.


-Jim
Dec 17, 2010

Promises

Before you died,
we knew you were sick
for a long time
and I always imagined
being there
for your final moments
and promising you
that I
would always
be there for your son.

(But) when your end came
you were unconscious
and in a different state
and it turns out
that those imagined moments
were disguised promises
to myself.


-Jim
Sep 15, 2010

gotta write a poem

gotta write a
gotta write a poem

      "When in the course of..."

No, no!
Not right

gotta write a poem

      "I think that I shall see..."

No!

Done



-Jim
Feb 20, 2011

My Church

My church
is the sun
and the dirt
and now.


-Jim

you gave up hope

I'm sorry
you gave up hope
so long ago

-- but cut it out!

the world needs you back.


-Jim
Jan 28, 2011

Long Dream of the Stars

...like galactic sentinels
...like guideposts
...like will-o-the-wisps
    of the deep vast cold

...like angry protesters
    of the darkness
...like fiery anchors
    dropped into space
...like mitochondria
    of an emerging super-being


-Jim
Jan 31, 2011

There's Still Time

There's still time
    to surprise me,
    to show up randomly at my door
    and pledge yourself
        to the revolution
        and to me,
    to don your old heroic gear
        and enter the battle
        once more,
    to open up your mouth
        and say no
        to the things that need
        to be said no to,
    to stand up,
    to fight for love,
    to reach for other humans,
    to be brave,
    to open your heart.


-Jim DuBois
Jan 28, 2011