air traffic controller to pilot:
go too fast
go too slow
end up on TV news.
go just right
runway happy.

middle path is not a path
or in the middle.
to catch an ant
become a bat.


........

road atlas blues

Albuquerque too far
for worn out
shoes.

.......

dragon swallows
pearl of immortality -
says, "what's for dessert?"

(neckbone, 2009)

.......

wind uproots tree
tree turns into sawdust
sawdust turns into soil
soil sprouts tree
tree waits for wind.

(ji bo, 2009)

......

reboot

one man = hero
another man = failure
both men = human beings;
homo sapiens
gods of planet Earth.

ancient human beings:
talk to animals and plants,
walk mountain vertebrae
pray to solar eyeball
(big invention - sun dial!).

domesticate dog
domesticate horse
domesticate cat
domesticate ox.

ox pulls plow
row, row, row
sea to shining sea;
planet's skin one big farm.
sun explodes into wheat
wheat explodes into city
city explodes into infinity.

10,000 years pass:
TV is new farm,
ideas grow on silicon chip,
human beings become robots:
forget solar eyeball
forget animals and plants
forget mountain vertebrae
forget ancient past.

turn on computer
load software
reboot human beings.


(ji bo, 2009)