Part I - Introduction to The Haiku Blues
The Haiku Blues
The Anti-Muse
The Nature of Haiku
Basho’s Last Poem

Part II - The Divorce Blues
Your Cheating Spouse
Doomed From End to End
Our Fatal Flaw
Welcome to God’s Penal Colony
It’s not Alzheimer’s, It’s Adultery
Not the Best of Years
The Legion of the Zombies
Just Desserts?
The Circus of the Cuckold
The Passion of Betrayal
See No Music
The Improbable Dream
The Goddess of Shattered Crystal
The Power of Infidelity
Wasted Love
Bad Karma
Irreconcilable Differences
Divorce Day at Black Robe
Free to Choose Your Fate
Forever Sore
Pure Love on Earth
Out of Service

Part III - The Full Spectrum of Blues
The Full Spectrum of Blue
Young Love
Smoke Sauna with Finnish Friends in Winter
The Ocean’s Obsession
The Truth and Beauty Within
Chebeague Island
The Teacher to the Student
Space Funerals
Slippery Joy, Sticky Sorrow
Stormed
South Carolina Family Reunion
Rap Music
Academy Awards Night
Catching One at Point Panic
Draining Emotions
The Internet As Pot
Lips are a Window to the Soul
Even a Dead Man’s Best Friend
Eau De Doo Doo
Redneck Riviera
Beware of Acid Trips
Cooke Strait on a Wintry Day
Telephone Hell
Montauk Lighthouse
The Everyday Space Launch
Starry Scary Night
Springtime in Washington Square Park
When America Worked
The Red Sawx Nation
We “Groundlings” at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
The Good Life on Radar
Kyoto Stone Garden
Pretty Poison, or She’s a Venus Fly Trap
Growing Olde in the 21st Century
The Perfect Match?
Gray Sunset over Pensacola Bay
Big Time College Football
Dockside: Portland, Maine
The Class’s 25th Year Reunion
Major Wipeout
Wall Street Logic
When Gas Stations Were Service Stations
The Lincoln Tunnel Symphony
Get Your Tix on Route 66
Chicago’s Burning Question
Love May Not Conquer All
Men’s Worst Heartaches
The Love Obsession

Part IV - The Constitutional Blues
The Constitutional Blues
The Democracy Gene
The Indian In Us All
Where FDR Died and Lives
America’s Genius
The New 4th of July
California Dreaming
Myth America
American Politics: A la Carte
The American “Free” Press
President Dubyah
Free Enterprise
The American Legal Process
The High and (not so) Mighty
The Late, Unlamented Right to Privacy
The Strange Equation of Two American Wars
The Childlike World of Geopolitics
Fair Exchange
Discount the Truth
The Bottom Line for Global Corporations
Help Fight the U.S. Work Force
The “New” World Order?
The Final Stage of Imperialism
The Looming Global Cataclysm
Only the Public Knows
My Life as a Termite
The Post-Imperial Blues

Part V - The Soul-Bending Blues
Soul-Mates are Fated or Never
Dream On
Seeing the Light
To Truffles: The Angelic Chocolate Lab
Blood Twilights
Checklist for Those Who Plan Their Lives
Baptized at 72
Heavenly Missions
Only God Hears
How to Avoid a Deadly Sun
The Divine Idea of Orgasms
Sexual Spirituality
When God Smiles and Sighs
Downhill Racers
During Agony
Lucky in Life
In the Wake of Rapture
Will You Like What You See?
Flying Out
Brighter is Lighter
Good Way to Go
To My Alter Ego in a Parallel Universe
True Love Off Earth
Where Does Love Go?
Alone on the Bridge of Gratitude (A Zen Poem in Many Haikus)