seeing/saying

Saturday, August 15, 2020

This update on quality

Of life projects

Is brought to you by

Reimagining Space

Your estimated

Time of arrival

Is totally in the mail

A friend told me

This inside story:

“What if the unknown

Is devoured

By the military

And political class”

Would that it

Were a mistake

To apply black and white

To an entire spectrum

Tom McGlynn

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

A reminder

To us all

The most patriotic

Act as if

Freedom isn’t free

Pulling out of Bethlehem

They had it going in

Alchemy and injustice

For all

Once there were forks

Watering the valley

Before whose name

Was now forgotten

We “the people’

Take exception

To your exception

Never give up the ghosts

When you can work them

Into a machine

In God We Trust

Here’s a quarter

Call someone

Who cares

Tom McGlynn

Monday, June 8, 2020

This performance

In which I shall dance

As well

Survival skills

Made up

Of what was

Found there

Little more than

Happy birthday

So by magic

No work experience

Required every bit

As powerful

Tom McGlynn

Friday, May 29, 2020

Though very niche

Though very niche
Nowadays
Everyone who is
Also famous
Have become
Distant housekeepers

I’m no better
At being wrong
Than anyone
How calming
That can sound

Great nations are built
On the backs of bastards
Hoping for a name

Listen I
Wasn’t aware
There was no such
Thing as free stuff

In the heat
Of the day
You can’t get
Behind the sun

Since when is
This monumental fuss
Getting very real

Tom McGlynn

Thursday, May 28, 2020

A big plus

More than ever

Feels like there’s

Not enough

Minutes in the day

My hands hurt

From wringing

Out the excess

How one does

At this altitude

Is beyond me

Tom McGlynn

A darker

And slightly

Less-cropped

Version

Of my feral

Tendencies

Not quite capable

Has been put

In its place

The sound of

Crashing reality

Over today’s

Great warbling

Tom McGlynn

Amazing abundance

And scarcity

Where visibility

Equals death

Can keep to itself

Biding time

At the top

Of your lungs

Will get you drawn

Into a crowd

What I call

A perfect sunset

Hasn’t been yet

Adequately fed

Where on earth

Is everything

I need at hand

Tom McGlynn

Anyone looking

To get with

Me worth life

Changing results

Alone to provide

For us

Bedazzle me here

In the wide space

Between words

And please let me

Know when

You find out why

Tom McGlynn

The trouble with

Anti-heroics is

That against a

Background of

Multiples of each

History flatters them all

And only with

The advent of

More countless

Unaccounted

Will the heavens

Be founded

Much for inviting

Invincible suspects

Tom McGlynn

The language of resistance

Isn’t married to miles

Due to short comings

And goings

Charged with

Meaningless burden

Loaded with enlightenment

The best thing to adopt

Would be ignorance as

Good as your knowledge

Why I can’t never

Get a witness

Nobody nos

Since when is

Ever enough

Tom McGlynn