On My Love’s Birthday
The blue spot fades to heartfelt red as the sun broils my eyelids. This is a hint of spring, even behind the cool glass veil. The dogwood barks. Cat o’ nine tails wag. Even a … Read more
Monthly Archives: February 2017
There Ought To Be A Law
This White House will undoubtedly go down in history. The president’s our first ever to be on PCP. The madness doesn’t stop at that; it’s all been quite consistent. The vice president named a fetus … Read more
General Malaise
Current fake news outlets are reporting our good spies with their bad are comporting. They say this chicanery ‘cross the ocean violates some democratic notion. They don’t recognize that in these times government needs leeway … Read more
Rocky Times Ahead
While inside the ring of this existence, one must rely often on persistence. Without it and some loving insistence, there will be no way to go the distance. Yes, life is like a fight to … Read more
Expanse
Ah, sweet perchance. Unruly happenstance. Life passes as a dance. We wander in a trance. All programmed in advance. As gods look on askance.
Rally Song on a Wooden Raft
Can one in fact remember the green fantasies of youth? And then tend to dismember the last tree lines of the truth? Can hope and despair wallow in the cauldron of the blood, As witches … Read more
Born This Day (Feb. 7)
Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol," thus Scrooge was embedded. Sir Thomas More became a saint, but first he was beheaded. Eubie Blake composed and played the piano in a ragtime way. Eddie Bracken, comic, … Read more
Multiple Divisions
I heard gongs when there was no palace. I sensed wrongs where there was no malice. I averred that worshipping a chalice is rather odd, although that might be callous. Seems like all reports of … Read more
Simply Madness
The Indians will pay for the pipeline. Cleveland is, of course, possessed by gangs. Bomb the glaciers and tax the water. Please pull to the curb and be searched. Mexico will pay for the Alamo. … Read more
Donny Rotten
His public image is limited, indeed. His hair is a physical disturbance. There’s a question as to whether he can read. It seems his main emotion is perturbance. He’s pissed off the Aussies and latinos. … Read more
Bannon Canon
Steve Bannon is the sludge in my liver. If bad was teardrops, he would be a river. Every time I think about his Breitbart News, I get a sudden bad attack of alt-right blues. Says … Read more
The Mortal 500
The pointed teeth of doubt are nibbling away at my soul’s achilles tendon, causing a moral limp. I’m afraid I won’t be able to catch up with god in the big race.