Understated

 

As far as I know,

either it is

or it isn’t so.

            -30-

Chris Hanch 2-11-2024

A Place in Time

Had George and Bettie

not gotten together at a

specific time and place,

in this 13.8 billion year

time span, I may have

never been.

Had I been named Bob or

Bruce a year earlier or latter,

I as Christopher would likely

not be speaking to you right

now.

Think how the trillions of

stars in the Cosmos had to

align just right to form the

cellular conglomerate

creating the likes of you

and me individually.

Nothing short of incom-

prehensibly plausible, I

recon. Why, what were

the odds of a life suppor-

ting planet such as Earth

having coalesced in the

expansive universal

clutter to evolve and

harbor a species such

as ours?

Genetically, I may have

been born an opossum,

a pin oak tree, an Alex-

ander the Great or a

Thomas Edison in a

different place and time.

Ah, but here I am,

the wonder of me

speaking to the wonder

of you about this

unfathomable hodge-

podge Cosmic Soup.

Could have been

otherwise, don’t

you know?

            -30-

Chris Hanch 2-9-2024

 

A Matter of Age

I’ll think of someone famous

or see them on TV. Some are

still alive, others are deceased.

Curiously, I will ofttimes ask

Alexa, how old is so-and-so,

how old did they live to be?

On a Netflix Comedy Special

the other day I saw Ellen De

Generes. How old is she?

And the answer was 66

years. Damn! I said out loud.

I’m nearly 77. How in the

friggin’ bloody world can

that possibly be? Ellen looks

pretty good for 66-years old.

77-years has taken its toll

on me. Sorry to say, I make

those comparisons a lot

these days. Suppose I

should consider myself

lucky being able to ask.

                -30-

Chris Hanch 2-8-2024

 

The Gift

 

An eyeful,

that’s what

I have in mind.

An eyeful

to take you

there where

I once was,

a face, a place

near and far

away, a once

in a lifetime

person or place.

Join me there.

Be mindful

with this eyeful

of mine, a gift

from me to you.

Be there too.

             -30-

Chris Hanch 2-5-24

I Still Am

 

Although I cannot explain,

the Universe out there

is nothing less than

incomprehensibly amazing

to me.

I could never be a physicist

or mathematician, beyond

simple 2 plus 2 math,

numbers, symbols

and calculations are

far to complicated for me.

I never had what it takes

to play sports professionally.

Muscle mass, exercise and

nutritional training were

never part of my physical

and mental regime.

I do have what it takes

on occasion

to be susceptibly

prone to making

bad choices

and stupid mistakes.

I did, however, manage

somehow making it to

nearly 77-years old and

gray in this lifetime

of mine.

By the looks and sound

of it, at this place in time,

breathing in and out, it

is apparent I still am alive.

              -30-

Chris Hanch 1-23-2024

Something About Forever

 

I shall not miss TV,

it shall prattle on for

centuries without me.

This life of mine

without a car turned

out to be a refreshing

bliss for me.

My list of things

to do slipped into

the rear view mirror,

and before I knew it,

I realized I could

do without.

I sometimes think

about the forever

darkness of death

which awaits us all.

Most of us would

like to be remembered

occasionally when

we’re gone.

But while I’m still

alive I realize what

it’s like to be forgotten.

In death nothing

matters anymore.

Not even a dim

and distant light

will shine on what

may have been.

Even forever is

a meaningless

unformed word

in the darkness

never to be heard.

                 -30-

Chris Hanch 1-22-2024

Happenings Today

 

My thoughts brought me to

then took me away from you.

Contemplating and reasoning

was the thing of fulfillment

and failure, imagining such

things of human conditioning.

Rightly or wrongly, I had to

rise from one side of the bed

today. Choices, it is said, we

have choices to be made. I

say these things because I can.

There are word images spread

out before us we don’t under-

tand. How many “Qs” do you

suppose are contained in a can

alphabet soup?

How are we supposed to make

sense out of random happen-

ings on any given day? I never

expected to hyphenate happen-

ings twice in one day. None

the less, done is done, and the

show must go on.

By tomorrow these words

shall be used in a refrain

to explain something else.

               -30-

Chris Hanch 1-8-2024