Category Modern Life
At Our Best
~~~~~ If I were to choose to write a song, Should I be able to find the notes? I’ve not been musical my life long, Whatever that knowledge connotes. I was never arty; now I’m a painter Who knows what life holds in time. Time doesn’t stop, no restraint here, Thus, over time, I learned […]
Days of Future Past
Recently, San Francisco joined Pisa in the leaning building club. Though ours has 58 floors. Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle Ha, take that, Pisa and your sad old leaning tower. In new San Francisco, we’re quite as inept as you. Because our sinking skyscraper gives us the power. As tourists flock to see […]
Stanley Moon’s Lament
Well, the cat is talking smack again, Don’t know if it’s complaint or plea. No one does, might be about Spain. Most likely what we all say, love me.
Wait and See
Although the past is dead, gone, It informs what we will become. Don’t check, not on your phone. Know this, or life a negative sum. No matter, if present, future, past, If long ago or coming inexorably, We cannot imagine, coming fast, Changes to astound, wait and see.
I Would Choose
Shall we now, forever, no longer pretend That we have done anything less than sinned? Whether stumbling through our ignorance, From our hubris or through fate or history. If saints all, we would still plead unaware Of acting less than noble, acting like we care. Not everyone in every time, beginning until now But so […]
All and Sundry
I’m wondering if I have found my way, Or have I been following a false trail? In either case, I wonder if I have a say? Am I controlled by the minions of retail? They are further down the food change, Still, they have more influence than me. Give them even more power if I’m […]
To the Future
Everywhere I go and look, I see lip-service to the future. Thinking we’ve had what it took; For such ignorance, there’s no cure. There’s no future, only now. Although this now what informs us. Now eternally changing; you know how. And if you don’t, just don’t get hit by a bus. ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, […]
What is There to Lose?
~~~~~ Soldier straight, Their brother stands, Their sister stands. While they reach out Their untouched hands. We step beneath Their outstretched arms, Unable to imagine all Myriad and costly harms. Cost of life, of hope, in pain Dwarfing any envisioned gain Humankind is anything but kind. We need but look to find Animal, vegetable and […]
Will Always Be
~~~~ Does your life feel like a Mobius strip, An infinitely endless high wire? Never getting anywhere, still you trip. Or like a spiral, going lower, climbing higher? Perhaps, the spiral of a hypnotist’s disc? Do you fall off one watching the other? Lost in tawdry mystery, unwilling to risk Diving into the deep end, […]
I Wonder Why?
A steely gray the sky today, Ocean full of sand in foam. I wonder why? I ask the sky, When I would stay and play, In yon starry depths to roam. When nighttime lingers nigh, How might I wend my way? No help from a massy tome. Should I flee, or would I fly? Ashen […]
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