Category Humanity’s Insanity
Simple Man
YES ~ Brent Harris Today being election day, I thought this somehow quite appropriate. I am a simple man Because I believe the human race can change I am a dreamer Because I believe everyone should understand I am naïve Because I believe if enough people say no, it will matter I am a fool […]
Capturing Elephants
An old joke says that all you need to capture elephants is an empty milk bottle, tweezers and binoculars. You look through the wrong end of the binoculars. When you see the elephants, you pick them up with the tweezers and drop them in the milk bottle. I believe we’re practicing a form of this […]
In an Instant
Oh, how the world has changed since I was born Some days I feel lost, confused and quite forlorn Will it matter that I cannot leave my past behind When I feel harassed, harried by the daily grind The world around us has sped up as I slowed down So much changed, I clutch the […]
Hollowed Ground
Those who send our youth to war, should fight instead Clearly they have no wisdom within their hollow heads Our children, future forfeit, salted battlefields lie fallow Our wasted youth lying in graves both deep and shallow
Serial Tuesday (Wednesday) ~ Toliver
Chapter Fifteen “You were wise to avoid the fountain.” Toliver stumbled back from the door and turned toward the voice. The man from across the plaza stood a couple of feet away, casually tossing and catching Toliver’s barely-eaten fapple. Toliver didn’t understand why he hadn’t heard him approach, felt him stealing the fapple or […]
One Track Mind
Better get on board the train you’re taking, whether love or hate It is only a short moment till boarding is done and you’re too late On the same track, speeding away in order to escape those fools Half-way round the world you’ll meet head-on; them’s the rules If you switch the engine so you […]
Three-Letter Folk
We have absolutely no idea how our world will change Despite those who have wild hairs of how to rearrange Someone may push a button, start the last of our wars Perhaps we finally see the dream of having flying cars What of the three-letter agencies hidden in plain sight Who tell us they are […]
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
Chapter Fourteen Toliver climbed into the low branches of the tree with the densest foliage. He planned to wait out the day, watch and learn from his hiding place. Initially, he wedged himself into position, with his feet on a branch and his back pressed into the trunk. He still feared he would be found […]
Serial Friday ~ Arcadian Journey
Chapter Fourteen Charoo proved an awful place, cool, green and brown with a pale blue sky. She missed the reds and blues, Arcadia’s lovely turquoise sky. Eni adjusted the scarf over the lower half of her face. She’d done it first to mask the odd smells that greeted her when she left the ship. […]
A Different Day
In this instant generation is it ever just now? If each moment is an anticipated future, how? Recording all our lives for future delectation Can existence contain any new expectation? Will it ever be right now, this moment, day? Can we live now while deciding what to say? It is said, history is written by […]
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