When in a jam, I try to preserve meditative trance

Synonymous with light hypnotic mode

inhaling and exhaling diffusing anger
lest mine noggin would explode
rhythmic breaths flowed

sustained me red nose (think Rudolph) glowed.

Holistic approach to derive peace of mind
necessitating absolute zero noise

(the slightest distraction

offsets delicate transcendent state)

nevertheless effortless breathing

(whereby mantra incorporated)

buoys body, mind and spirit triage.

Trail of tears left in my wake

tortured psyche I cannot take

woebegone roiling anguish doth quake

one christened Matthew Scott Harris

quite popular namesake

yours truly

zapped, wretched and tattered

gruesome caricature keepsake.

Me beast of burden exhausted,

thus I take tired ass abed

cuz cheeses crust,

this brother spiritually bred

though NON GMO gluten free

das capital one human got cred

linkedin and locked with dread.

Retrospective of mein kampf on display

no time for sergeants, nor hip hip hooray

mine burdened psyche clamors, hankers, pines...

willingly bequeaths fractured father

to posterity, I just wanna lay

overburdened spirit desperately plunges

into terrestrial realm reaching passageway

where pained existence bids adieu

flourishing grateful dead today.

Book of Wisdom in the Bible,

chapter 2, verse 8

advises gather ye rosebuds while ye may

impossible mission to squelch

testosterone laden hormonal secretion

nsync with biological call of the wild

helped beget deux offspring.

Series of unfortunate events
(only known to Lemony Snicket)

finds eldest grown daughter bereft of beau

who abandoned her

he went back home

to Puerto Rico.

Emotional pain wracking said progeny

(wind knocked out her sails)

vicariously experienced courtesy

saddened sensitive simian

soporific sullen papa, he whose

biological flesh, bone and blood

unforgivably, unfittingly, unfairly subjected

to unnecessary undeserved punishing lament.

Me and the missus wrought smart "star student,"

who matriculated and graduated storied

ivy league college

University of Pennsylvania alumni

suddenly strewn helter skelter

cuz ex boyfriend earned handsome income

to pay pricy apartment

housed within Oakland, California.

Dada poor bucks here

unable to allay financial hardship

saddling lovely young lady

birthed approximately twenty four years ago

both of us parents indigent

nonetheless livingsocial hand to mouth

along ritzy, snooty and tony MainLine

Lower Merion top notch school district.

Bellicose tirades spill forth

out the figurative mouth of our bubala,

she livid ranting with rage
shouldering an onerous task,

whose dark shadows cast grotesqueries

creep along the edge of night

within outer limits of twilight zone.