"You gotta look sharp
gottaa have no illusions"
So said Joe Jackson
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Reb Shlomo Carlebach
was the only one ever
to say I looked "sharp"

HAND WRITTEN OVER TWO NIGHTS

Processing my life
I am laying on my bed
Wanting to detox

That story about

the Xs on the foreheads

sits there on my screen

And the irony

is hot, I find it striking

how fitting it is

Our phones are the

wheat that makes us all crazy

this haiku, my X

Marking my forehead

my phone in the other room

I'm writing by hand

Write me a letter

send it through a blue mailbox

so we'll remember...

II

...I'm thinking again

about Rebbe Nachman's wheat

and the forehead marks

I think we've fallen

in a short number of years

hard, away from G-d

I write on paper

hiding from my phone, in bed

calling out to G-d

G-d bless us to read

to write each other and speak

heart to heart, off line

Oh my G-d, bless me

to work with you and be free

and learn how to see Written Nov 23 2021

 

I want my back to
get off of my back so I
can get back on track

And when they won it
some back stories fell away.
Better that they don't.

Is a half hour 

nap really a nap or more
just a call for sleep?

Wanting to figure
all of my issues out with
pencil and paper

Holy, holy day
creation unto itself

and yet separate