Everything flickers

Life flashing before my eyes
I change the light bulb

Ad for a used cat

One of many things I read
Without my glasses

 He taught in the place
where he taught, taught there again
until he didn't

The comment you wrote
Which I haven’t really read
Is left brain biased

Israel 2012

It's time to go home
my soul whispers with the wind
I hear my name called

My walking outside

brings me life that I live for
a breath of fresh air

No one seems to care
In intensive care units
They should change the name

Sitting happily

or is it unhappily
sometimes hard to tell

Speaking to a friend
Grateful for the connection
There's nothing like it

Speaking to a friend
Grateful for the connection
Closer than brothers

Speaking to a friend
Grateful for the connection
with friends, and my Friend

Sitting in my home

inside my internal world

hearing its calling 

Sometimes when tired
the courageous thing to do
is to go to sleep

 Is the secret that

there are no words in water,

is that what it is?

How the water flows

as it tumbles over me,

speaks a true language

No earth and no stone

can take a waterfall's place

or shout its whisper

Mom once heard a speech

about how it's water that

relaxes us most

I miss my mother

in every crevice of life

and at the water

I wasn't sure if

I should come here again now

but there are reasons

God please please bless me

in my most private moments

to sense the water

Here in the desert

a waterfall hides and seeks:

We've found each other

Water and poems

don't have room for linear or

literal moves

Stone in the water
Still as the river flows
Changing everything

My baseline is like
a bassline that differs from
my actual tune

 When I no longer

feel the need to be relaxed
I will be relaxed

I met a guy who

said he is "self unemployed,"
clever and so sad

DATING PROFILE

What's more dramatic
than saying just, 'no drama'
as your description?

Arguing with myself haiku by haiku:

I’ll throw this away

It’s only for me to vent

Not for you to see

This will get published

And be lauded on TV

And bring you meaning

I’m wasting my time

Over and over again

Like with this writing

I’m becoming me

By answering my calling

Being me right now

I should be sleeping

Or up being productive

Not here writing this

I’m where I should be

Doing what I need to do

Writing this haiku

 Shabbat appoaches - 

tiptoeing through the sunset - 

the queen that she is

written on year ago

Neil Fleischmann

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Swatch watches were cool 

Swatch watches were cool

for a bit in the eighties.

I've never felt cool.

Someone said to me

that my way of being cool

is being uncool.

Till age twenty five

I chose to resist watches,

watched time on my own.

Once I decided

if I really liked a watch

that I would wear it

I gave Swatch a chance:

walked in the store, looked around

saw same old same old

Though they were trying

with bright colored vinyl bands

nothing caught my heart

Then, a faceless watch

looked at me and I looked back

and now it was time

Over thirty years

have carried me here to now.

I'm wearing a Swatch

My new faceless Swatch

automatic, off the grid:

it's my uncool cool.

To my second of four first cousins

Start in the middle

From there- travel back and through

that, I wish to do.

Return to my youth,

my small circled family

including you, me.

Nothing like cousins

are brothers, sisters, or friends

You, my love I send.

Never said goodbye
as Covid’s somehow still here.
Still, we’ve forgotten.

Somewhere in between
Bad nightmares and good dreams
Life’s not what it seems

Stuck inside my head
the way we bury our dead
and the words they said

 

During my dinner
had a talk with Thich Nhat Hanh,
breathing in and out

Peace was every step
as his lips spoke from beyond
and his book read me

A lift top table

seems to have just changed my life;
now my after life.

One's health ensurance (sic)
is a hard topic because
there is no such thing

"The problem is you"
may be my way of saying
"The problem is me."