Mind on Trail 03 - 05

Mind on Trail 03

a sentinel lymph node biopsy is just a steep

fucking mountain trail really

that you could easily slip on and die

and that is why we must STFU and breathe

while they take the scalpel and stick it in

your groin

while we watch one foot and then the other

taking one step at a time

in the narrowest groove in the gravel of a trail

that is barely recognizable as a trail and trust

that we will make it to the end

wherever the end may be and take us

Mind on Trail 04

although we are monkeys and not monks

we still make music like monks

and monkeys and bring each other bananas

of reminders to keep the mind present in the midst

of a goddamn shit hurricane that is a life

that randomly infects people with unemployment

and melanoma

as if it were a player just pushing buttons

just bowing about chaotically

just spinning the wheel of injustice

and buying a vowel without any money

j_st how f_cked are _?

Mind on Trail 05

though Mind on Trail pushes laughter back

and up and over to the other side of the ridge

like a thick burgeoning cloud

in the Dolomites

on one side of the valley

and clear as day on the other side

you can still crack a smile across your lips

as you walk through life

as graceful as Kermit

after Fozzie pointed out the wires attached to his arms

and he looked down and saw god/Henson

and looked up with a new ironically transcendent

scowl of self-consciousness

and just kept the show rolling with straight-frog

humor and a generous acceptance

of the new limits

of his very Muppety existence