Claude Mayers

What About Al?

Two definitions for you, Dear Reader, and Friend of Allan Weisbecker (Or Foe)

RV Recreational Vehicle                                                                                                                                               

perspicacious: of acute mental vision or discernment; from Latin ‘clear-sighted, to see through’   Merriam-Webster.com:

What about Al?

We all want to know

Is he really dead?

Suicide?

Or was there foul play?

He sentenced to the RV world

The lonely old photographer

Did he have his dog beside him

To comfort him

As love denied him?

He crazed about the 9-11 planes

Telling me Fauci was no hero

Before I was ready

To pronounce this

Al stopped surfing

During Covid

When he left San Blas

Trundled over the border

Mexico not allowing him re-entry

He unfortunately forced to wander

About the mountain states

Shooting sunsets  clouds  waterways  landscapes

Animals in nature

Using special effects

Embellishing his artistry

This morning

It must be five days

Facebook and gmail

Contributing nothing

To the initial news

Of his unceremonious departure

Dying in South Dakota

In an RV camp

What was he thinking

Was he exhausted

Choosing his latest pictures

To share with his followers

His battery running out?

As Donald Trump says

Al  ten toes over the nose

Speeding across a bluegreen wall

How I will remember him

The cynical visionary scowl

Lenses hanging off his flak jacket

Gumming his cigar

Nicotine an addiction to beat down

Miami Vice

Captain Zero

                             gone

Cosmic Banditos stuffed with existential words

Al really a philosopher

Perspicacious

Audacious

Not prone to swallow

The processed gorgeous obvious

                             (C) 2023  Claude Mayers

Reading Tonight in Oakland, Ca Oct 9 2019

Claude Mayers will participate at an Open Mic reading starting at 8 PM at The Gallery Art Bar, 310 14th St. Oakland, Ca 94612. Dope Era Poetry is the name of the poetry reading series. He will start with a line from Rumi linked to his Empathy Haiku 2019, and proceed from there . . .