Autism/Autistic Poems

After my son Daniel, now 9, was diagnosed with autism, I obsessively researched autism. While sharing my research with my brother and my wife, each independently asked me if I thought I was autistic. I have had a neurologist and two psychiatrists diagnose me with autism, so I guess I am…

Truth

Mountains rising to the clouds
Snowy peaks the mist enshrouds
Stones protrude above the trees
Bent down by the mountain’s breeze.

Glaciers grinding down the stones
Lay to light the ancient bones -
Ocean creatures…

An Ode to the Internet

Self-organizing social systems were
Not physical until you grew
Into a wired order, new
But not unknown — 
From mind you’re grown
And, social, sprung a brand-new social spur.
We social-network from our homes,
From desks our shopping has grown frugal — 
We’re reading electronic tomes
From…

Apocalypse

The antichrist was given his appointment on this day,
A day which marks an end, a turn, beginnings which betray
A darkness masquerading as the light, carnal delight
Devouring the sheepish goats, those knowing what is right
And choosing, nonetheless, against the right. No, ignorance
Is no excuse for them —…

Webs

The spider pulls the thread to thread the web
 In spirals on the star across the stems,
 A zig-zag to the side to stitch it up,
 Then centers itself, looking out in eight
 Directions, its organization firm
 Beneath its sensitive eight legs that feel
 For movement so the spider can pounce on
 The profit from its hard…

Autumn

When freedom is lost in the land of the free
Where will we all go who still wish to be free?
This was the last stop for the ships of the free
Who do not believe that their lunch should be free.

Developmental Economics

I’m here to help because I love you so.

You don’t know me. Go help the one you know.

I love you for you are one of mankind.

That’s saying you can see when you are blind.

On How to Be a Man

Son, stand and be a man, responsible
And virtuous and kind. You will not find
A man of worth who’s listless, cold, and cruel,
Who lives a life reptilian, not of mind.