Waiting for Godot is one of the most profound plays ever written, by Samuel Beckett, published in 1954.  

Simple is hard and this is simple and therefore timeless, funny, tragic, futile and sublime.

Waiting For Godot By Beckett

Reading from my book manuscript on Incentive System Design, as I write it.

Mutineers book manuscript: Intro Part 1

Mutineers book manuscript: Intro Part 2

American Smooth By Rita Dove

Frank O'Hara was not afraid to get shitty in his poems. 

The proof is in these quick nibbles he called Lunch Poems.

Lunch Poems By O'Hara

A few early excerpts from the most famous book of philosophical Daoism.

Dao - De Zhing By Laozi

A few poems by perhaps the most talented Polish writer of the 20th century, Czeslaw Milosz.

Selected Poems By Milosz

Some thoughts on dying with grace or helping a friend or loved one to die with grace, but in metaphors and seasons from a wonderful American poet.

Lines For Winter By Strand

Reading these, I imagined the ways they may have touched or influenced Billy Holliday or Rita Dove or Yusef Komunyakaa, amongst so many thousands of others.

Selected Poems By Langston Hughes

Two bits from Turtle Island by one of California's best ever poets, one in a honky-tonk in New Mexico and the other an ode to wild mushrooms, "for food, fun or poison."

From Turtle Island By Snyder

A few selected poems on poignant everyday life and death by by American great William Carlos Williams.

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