At University,
besides being introduced
to streaking-

I mutated
to a Biology major.


Professor Degradable
informed us
that the greatest
threat to our planet was...
overpopulation.

Still is.

God forbid one was
born female
and Chinese.

Our long range strategy
has never changed.
It's called:
The Bacteria Principle.

Consume and multiply
until the colony
dies out
in its own refuse.

Pretty spiffy, eh?

But, we may not
have to plan just yet-
other than mandatory...
swimming lessons.

Now,
the beauty that poetry
can be.


The Siren Call of Spring

With tadpoles swimming,
and life beginning-

my heart reopens,
as do
the caves of hibernation.

We...re-relate
to what we can't create.


Spring is the soul
that's just beginning.

Trickles flow
and mountains yawn.

The bluest skies
reclaimed by flight.

Yet you and I
don't realize
that hand in hand,
our feet in dirt...

we have Eden
right here on Earth.

We have answers
and political impediments.

We have man
and we have nature-

And only the nature
of man
holds us back.