Being lulled to dullsville

I am in neutral still.

Counting tiles on ceiling.

Legs are losing feeling.

I’m in the in between;

Zombie watching the screen.

Each day dissolves into

The next. The same. Not new....

As chilly wind whispered whimsically in ears,

Jim gingerly jived with Jake about recent years.

Popping peanuts between gulps of beer one night, Ha!

They guffawed and reminisced as Lisa served pizza

When Jim lightheartedly asked how pair were doing.

,traipsing about the state parks with heavy cooing.

Well toned Jake nudged lounging Lisa as their eyes met.

They described date night movie without a r...

Beating down by Helios of old, world worn Will,

An anomaly of a scorched age, lunged to hill.

Endless sweltering from a grimacing menace,

Who hounded the denizens of dried out Venice,

city simmering in constant rancor of men.

Seeking solace from endless meaningless playpen.

Some sanctuary, haven of anonymity,

From rays of hot daggers and tedium that free

Him to meditate in cool sobriety sweet.

Men...

As the sun bespeckled in glory burst

Upon the twelve o’clock high, her lips pursed

In consternation as things not as planned.

With John flustered in t shirt and shorts tanned

But team shirt has chocolate ice cream stain see!

Eight year olds jumping on couch while dads plea.

Playing pirates with bananas for guns

And vexed moms running around with wet ones.

Ketchup wars for paintball practice at poo...

Muffled voice reaching out.

In hush inner child pout.

Silent screams as I drive.

Watching to see alive.

Cars in acrobatics

Zooming between oil slicks.

Hondas hounding others.

Annoyed at world that grrrs.

Andrettis swerving roads.

Faith in other erodes.

Signals muted when zigzag.

I’m in a race that’s drag.

Light turned green I mutter.

Hey man. Can’t be cutter.

Wait. That car cut me off.

Then he ta...

I was praying this was one of my smaller mistakes. Aah!

Like a worm, I stood as she went “blah, blah, blah, blah.”

Like King Kong on a rampage, tearing into me

With line “you don’t have to be a rocket (you see)

scientist.” Her self righteous kick got me right in

The stomach. I mean I was having breakfast. Sin.

I was tossing in sleep and my insides burning.

She came in with this nouveau fanny pa...

Seagulls gently serenade the warm sultry sands

As Marcy and Deb had margaritas in hands.

Pausing between sips to prattle about what’s up.

Marcy in soliloquy let slip about hiccup

In her routine about her unctuous new boss

Who would go on about his ill perceived hair loss

And how each day blurs into next and Deb puts in

Her two cents about Marcy seeing life with grin.

Marcy is bemused about barefoo...

In some dimly lit nook, Sean drowned himself

In some lackluster stew with brown ale from the shelf.

As he pondered unicorns and his torrid life

Filled with dreary dismal same old days with wife;;

Endless friendless mindless work and nights of numbness.

Teary eyed with childhood but a distant remiss.

Sean shrugged and stumbled toward some kind of a relief

To some tattered den of solitude in washroo...

Window fogging up like genie freed from the lamp.

Waking up with sand of sleep in his eyes that cramp.

Like a ship weary clinging on to life in storm,

Walt tossed and turned in night until dawn’s sun did warm.

Rehashing hurtful words that tormented his sleep.

Visions of exploding tongue as front door closed deep.

“What were you thinking!!.” Followed by a frosty stare.

Invisible walls trapped him...

Birds circled overhead as Tom lay in his bed.

For he couldn’t get those cuckoos out of his head.

Like driver who sticks hand out to signal a left,

Who then shakes hand to turn right. His brains were bereft.

Or the Sunday driver who put thumb in lighter

To see if hot after press. A real nail biter.

Or the lass who took labels off tins for surprise.

Or guy pushed door that says pull. IQ he denies....