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Monthly Archives: November 2014

Growing Up at 42?

28 Friday Nov 2014

Posted by Bill Watkins in Kennedy

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Joy, Love, Peace

The World Crashes

Kennedy shot, the victors sworn
in again and again until I’m
born in the middle of a haze
of Watergates and gold medals.

We won the peace from Britain,
got a chance to “run” our country,
always bickering but there was hope,
and indeed “God” was spoken
of and accepted, regardless of religion
attached.

“Mind your own business,” the first
message on currency, then in
God we trust, Good and Evil still
the game, no matter what occupations
occupied the country.

My haze.

I woke up yesterday and realized a final
blow to my theory that something
good entertained and enhanced my past.

The girls must’ve been allright, the middle
school dances—something was pure, right?

No one ever calls me anymore, those days
are gone, I’ve retained one friend from school,
most of its theories and lessons dashed.

“Sports” were touted as so good, people in
general were either good or bad,
despite Jesus’ protest at the young
man approaching, calling him “Good teacher!”

Only God is good.

Sports were microcosms, indeed, good
for analogy? But hard on the back, and
shoulders, and knees, and need I get into
American football? A real headache.

Good grades, performance on the field.

Alcohol wasn’t really that bad to drink—
look at our parents. Look at those
commercials, those hot girls.

How were we going to talk with them
unless buzzed?

No one to guide us or tell us the
truth, we were too big for Jeff Bridges,
Dude this was a fight we could not win,
a war waged within,

Death awaited my best friends… I, and I
did not die, but I tried, and escape overdose
everynight, injuries from the past light up
the sky only in poetry driving me
on to explore the Kennedy killers.

When that corrupt, stay away, but every
once in a while I approach the lion’s den
with guidance learned from bible study—

It’s called “ministry.” Police, war, guns
they need Fathers:

Son, still it is true that if you live by violence
you shall die by it. God bless you—

Love, William

A Vision

20 Thursday Nov 2014

Posted by Bill Watkins in Poetry

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Joy, Love, Peace

Good and Evil Still

We complicate the complicated,
think we know…

We all want to see keys, the language
or vision that encompasses “it,” that
thing John Wooden and I call
Peace of Mind.

What clinches the game played between
right and wrong, safe and unsafe?

The old answers still swirl, Charles Dickens’
Mrs. Chick calling for effort, Lao Tsu
calling louder from the other side
of Christ:

We cannot change the world!!

So should we try anyway? Wyatt
Earp said yes, there are times to
say “No!!” Stop doing that, alcohol
being pitched as a social drink to
young people through TV’s, flammable
toxic substances (and some deny
the Devil’s existence!).

An un-funny joke laughs at my
lost Spring; I turn back at my past
seeing two things, sports and alcohol

And I limp, and I limp, and my shoulder
hurts, and I watch movies from 1984
and remember my friends I never
anymore see, the girls I failed to be
honest with, the failure—

Now a smile, because Truth is its
own proud success!!

A perfectly worn dress, a nutshelled
realization that only good and evil
exist. Take your pick, have a God to
help you, and may you find
Peace of Mind.

God, help us forgive the wrongs, the
confusion that baffles the hurt
to vengeance sometimes consciously
carried, sometimes not.

God love us in our faults, help us
turn around:

Folks, the message is still the same…

Truth, it starts with truth, tell someone
the truth and let go

Non-Political Poem

19 Wednesday Nov 2014

Posted by Bill Watkins in Alcoholics Anonymous, Anti-Political, Poetry

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New Constitution

We haven’t any British to fight today.

The sun comes up on the land, moon
on the other, hours separate time an
illusion alluding to Einstein’s relativity
relative to Jesus’ definition of Family,
A.A.’s of insanity—

Those who do the will of God, repeating
the same thing over and over again—

Expecting different results.

Truth, justice challenged, JFK
trying to do good offering peace
but wait: the political process is
corrupted by greed and selfishness,
so perhaps it’s better to fly below
radar.

Stay out of the light, put on dollar-gloves
and pick up trash, your home
and neighborhood need you.

We do our best—be and stay true, and
if God is sought… Peace will be found;
politicians solicit your love and they have
it, our roads are paved—just not very well.

God is still in charge, a Higher Power beyond
our grasp or understanding. The closer
we get the farther we fall, but it’s fun!

I do not participate where they
age discriminate, I have started my own
government (let them learn). Come to
me with requests as you have done them,
and we’ll see who helps you first.

The only requirement for being in A.A.
is a desire to stop drinking alcoholic
beverages. To engage in politics and vote
there are a million hoops to hop.

I’d rather just help

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