Red Tin Noodles

Saturdays creep by as never before. The names of the days don’t matter anymore. It’s bright or it’s grey inside of this door. And the sun turns to moonlight shone in on the floor. You … Read more

Uvalde’s just the tip of the iceberg, as people out in Tulsa found today. Until we slow the sale of AR-15’s, mass shootings in our land won’t go away. The military instruments of killing should … Read more

With all the sad news recently occurred, sometimes sense of propriety is blurred. On social sites, ignorance is the word. They’re all wrapped up instead in Depp v. Heard. Forget the cruel school shooting and … Read more

Bob Dylan’s eighty-one today. A man who has a lot to say. In Hibbing, where the poet grew, was raised up Roger Maris, too. The gopher city we must hail also bred Kevin McHale. But Bob … Read more

The last day of “the cruelest month,” and still the war drags on. Our super hero smells like Musk, new Twitter Lord, Elon. Meanwhile, in Colorado, there’s a man who’s caught bird flu. And at … Read more

Who’ll be the April fool? Someone we thought was cool? Someone who wages war? Someone whose face is sore? April fools thrive on showers, don’t even care for flowers, may have sought insurrection, acted without … Read more

Judge Clarence Thomas has a big lie pushing wife. This distraction has to matter, ’cause he serves for life. The fact she’s for guns and against abortion could mean he faces bouts of thought distortion. … Read more

When Putin’s in his combat zone, he’ll take on the whole world alone. It doesn’t matter what the cost. He’ll keep on ’til the world is lost. Ukraine has him very vexed. Poland knows it could … Read more

The state of the union is in pain, and not just because Russia’s in Ukraine. We still have citizens in great division, with not much more on both sides than derision. It seems that since … Read more

Putin started shootin’ ‘cross the border in Ukraine. Now he’s talkin’ nukes and it’s quite clear he’s gone insane. He went in to ‘kill nazis,’ though their leader is a jew. The people took up … Read more

Broiled friends defy description. Nuclear cooking benefits only buzzards. There’s a flash in the panhandle, and Florida floats out to sea, a theme park of ash. Those who saw New York go will not remember … Read more

Always looking to the sky, you and I. What we gonna count upon if baseball die? Russia’s at the English Channel, by the by. I feel like the backup catcher in the rye. I’ve seen … Read more

Looks like we’ll live through another war. Keeping peace since Little Boy’s been what life’s for. Defending Ukraine is a subtle task. Avoiding nukes now is all we can ask. A madman autocrat is on … Read more

“Let him reign in Ukraine.” Orange praise for pal Vlad’s brain. Rise, autocrats of the world. Now your flag has been unfurled. Democracy is on the slide. Four more years it would have died. Putin’s … Read more

A thousand battered kegs floated in the bay. It was a holiday and the rats were jumping ship. Talk of treason had turned to suggestions of war. Every machine sounded of planes. Thunder was guns … Read more

Being kind and gentle is not experimental. No. It is just a state we all could imitate. Who knows? Perhaps it might catch on, and hatreds, woes may all be gone. In a world more … Read more

In times of stress and sorrow, times when I feel alone, I don’t look towards tomorrow, I simply pray to my phone. In times when I need uplift, when I could use a pet, I … Read more

There is no moral arc with Republicans gone dark. They are trying to flatline society. A union based on sanity and truth now needs our spark to restore some sense of propriety.

They arrived en masse, the January sicks , summoned, all, to the White House ellipse. They listened to their master for an hour, explain that he’d been cheated out of power. His one intention simply was … Read more

Biden won because he cheated. That is what the loser bleated. Hugo Chavez changed the vote. (All while he was dead, we note.) Insurrection in D.C. hoped to steal a victory, “Hang Mike Pence,” their battle … Read more