Category Humanity’s Insanity
No Place Safe to Stand
If you find something’s wrong don’t cast about looking for a reason I’m the one to libel, always, I must honestly admit, this or any season You think you’re wrong, you’re incorrect, I’ll swear an oath I did it From simple misspelled words to atom bombs, for all I will take credit The argument […]
What Else?
You. Stop. Right Now. Whatever else you are doing, besides reading these words, and I know you’re doing something else, stop. In a world where multitasking is the norm and dealing with disparate desires and duties is the only way to survive, simply doing one thing feels foolish, wasteful. Perhaps, to you, it even feels […]
Because We Have Not Stopped
Because We Have Not Stopped A Poet’s Words with Poets’ Words When myriad commit cruel murder, macho maniacs brutally rape, mad hermits dream and decimate, Then will we need to know where the sidewalk ends, where a phenomenal woman’s secrets lie With daily tribunes crying madness, feasts of destruction, humanity the savage, ravenous beast Will […]
While Waiting for a Late Plane
Strangest thing I’ve seen; I think it’s nuts. Airplane seats get smaller to fit bigger butts. While Waiting for a Late Plane While in Cleveland, waiting for an incoming plane which was late and destined to be our outgoing plane, it occurred to me that waiting at a gate in an airport is like almost […]
Covered with Cat Hair
My desk is by the window covered with cat hair A short leg on my chair makes it wobble when I sit They offer me no hints, no answers, no this is it So I go to check the frig, but find there only air Everywhere I ride my bike with two flat tires To […]
Songs of War ~ Songs of Peace
And will the savage songs of war never end Replaced by the simple, sweet songs of peace How can we ever forever our loved-ones send When we know they feed the slavering beast Why don’t we wonder why we never grow sane When the best and the brightest are sent to die Why do […]
Catching Up
To any who have wondered where I’ve been of late online (I hope there will be one or two) perhaps the following verse will explain. I have been working on other writings, though still trying to edit them into my best form. I’ve also spent some time painting digitally, while I wait for a surgically […]
TOO LATE CONSIDERED?
Home Complex confusing and contentious conversations may prevail When sundry family members to the wide world do disperse Traveling from home-based roots, trekking far beyond the pale Lessons learned young may not survive from cradle to hearse Or lessons taught are planted deep, rooting values far too well When elders change their diet, cultivating growth, […]
Insanity in General – Bankers
INSANITY IN GENERAL (Bright Banter From Bumptious Bankers) (Sung to the tune of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General) We are the very model of insanity in general We’ve information financial, domestic and commercial We know the ins and outs of law and quote interest rates fiducial From the lowest to the […]
INSANITY IN GENERAL
INSANITY IN GENERAL (A paean to Tea-Party paranoia) (Sung to the tune of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General) We are the very model of insanity in general We’ve information violent, atrocical and criminal We know the guns of murder, and we quote the deaths statistical From Birmingham to Newtown in order […]
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