Relationships Defined: A Reflection Closer to Reality
by Robert M. Katzman © New Year’s Eve, 2017
1) Friend: One of one, or one of many, a preferred person to call, go places with, share experiences, be with when sad or drunk, to defend or be defended by when threatened by words or worse and who when you ask for help, absolutely, positively, shows up.
There are thru time men who lust to rule
They only see others as less than them
Other men’s pride a footstool to step on
Especially, men too terrified to resist
Mostly men who will always say:
Well, what can I do? You don’t understand
Mortgage, kids, college, wife, car and life
All at the mercy of the Big Man
Pleading with Fate in Jerusalem
by Robert M Katzman © December 4, 2017
I tilted my head to the Western Wall
Trying to summon the words
Conjuring up Fate to listen to me
Surrendering to that which can’t be seen
But nevertheless
Heard
Why do you keep doing this?
You keep taking so many away
No one left to call and say:
Do you remember this perilous time?
Sleeping With The Bedouins (part 11-a)
By Robert M. Katzman © December 1, 2017
Bedouins, originally badawi in Arabic, are nomadic borderless Arabs of the desert.
I had been to Jordan before, with Rick Munden, in May 2000, where he and I both had bad problems with our feet at the end of our nine days in Israel. We were on our way to Petra, also known at one time as the Rose City because of the color of the mountains, which is now a world famous destination of a Nabataean civilization buried under the red sand for about 2000 years.
Originally a bustling Arab community on the Silk Road to China located in a Roman province, it has incredible temples carved into the soft stone, Roman columns everywhere standing up and lying around like giant carved chips that fell off of a Las Vegas poker game table, a coliseum-like curved and stepped mass of seats facing whatever was entertaining them.