Category Humanity’s Insanity
Cannot Replace
What do call 73 million dollars taken from a from manufacturers bank account? A good start. ~~~~~ 73 million dollars sure sounds like a lot. It’s not. Not when it is weighed against the loss of a child. ”Hey, that’s big bucks,” you say. “I’d give it a shot.” Parents’d give all to see when […]
Begin, Become, Begone
~~~~~ Speaking now of old friends or of lovers from long ago. Where the closest may be lost or somehow replaced by others along the way. Yet, life continues along, with us or without us. Do you believe, perchance, when you are finally gone the universe vanishes. This, despite evidence to the contrary, science, perhaps, […]
AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL
AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL For Preventing the Poor Children of the People of the United States of America From Being the Innocent Victims of Lunatics, Madmen, and Terrorists, both Foreign and Domestic, and For Protecting All Citizens of This Great Nation of Ours It is a melancholy object lesson to those who walk the highways […]
If You Will
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Follow the Path ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ How we long for what has never been, for a life we have never had or known. Imagine lives in neither time nor space. Lives which look better than your own. We may fancy we want what used to be, even […]
They Might Grow Up
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Emergency, emergency, everybody to clear the streets. *The cowboys are coming, the cowboys are coming.* Guns carried openly on the hip or hidden under arm. They will tell you it is only the bad guys they will harm. Unless, of course they are the bad guys, that’s only […]
Sixth Extinction Blues
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Here’s Looking at You ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Humans are nature and nature is them. We’re near closure. Will we spin again? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent […]
The Time Has Come
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ And now the time has come, he said, to wisely wonder where we are. When few have all, many beg for bread, it appears we have gone far too far. Does anyone now even remember where we thought we were going? Did we start this trip one December? […]
Awaiting Your Reply
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Contemplation ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ It seems words are in short supply and fewer are available every day. Despite ones I hear on daily news. Those are recycled in clever ways. First, they’re recited front to back. Then, they’re repeated in reverse. At times, they sling them sideways […]
Fear He Might
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ He sat on the ground, legs splayed. A hat between them, turned upside down. Several small, lonely coins tossed in. Whether his, to prime the pump, or the largess of random passers-by is impossible to detect on scant clues. If he looked up, you might know but he […]
Searching for the Key
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! The Show Must Go On ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Sad to say, you’ll wonder, the prince of darkness has lost his place. The world outside informs me the king of darkness wears that face. Or is it only me who is lost, despite the daily horrors we are […]
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