The Lion in Front of a Karate Studio on Garnet Street in Pacific Beach

JUMP START

The old body just sits there waiting

for ignition, knowing what is possible

but unable to make the first move.

Is it age and knowing too much

that brings the impotence...

               Ain't that the scariest word in the dictionary?

the unwillingness to make the first move

to get the machinery going

at the beginning before reassurance

that it will all turn out

o.k, o.k, all right already?

                Jump Start.