Category politics
Whose Sweet Face?
~~~~~ While club and maul and stick and mace may have been effective to smash a face, they all require study, practice and intent, maim or murder always what was meant. While the spear and stone or an arbalest, increased striking distance, were not fast. Designed to kill prey, as dangerous as us finished more […]
Which Three Letters?
This is a piece I originally posted last May, but with the shooting at the synagogue in Poway, I feel like I need to post it every day. ~~~~~ Which Three Letters? ~~~~~ NRA, DOA, RIP ~~~~ The NRA pushes guns without any regret, as they myriad Needless Requiems Abet. Doubtless they think they deserve […]
Your Life
~~~~~ What we select to hide; what we’re willing to show, live in conflict, diametrically opposed, poles apart. Doesn’t matter whether we’re moving fast or slow, whether our journey is near its end or just the start Life now flashes by us in rapid fifteen second clips, with staggered moments, fraught with raw emotion. While […]
Children’s Duty
~~~~~ How lovely a bouquet, yellow daffodils, in a clear glass vase, the stems cut short, die the sooner; their life and beauty stills. Though death comes for all life, no resort. From the far field we hear a loud report. Death stalks killing fields and marks all, knowing lives of children, it will abort, […]
Secret Heart
~~~~~ Where do you think you will find your secret heart, A heart that speaks to the secret heart of the world? What pushes us away from the center, keeps us apart? What fear, hatred bigots us, around our heart curled? Are we somehow kept too busy to even take one look, to find that […]
Until Life Runs Out
~~~~~ Our world drowns in ignorance. No one knows. Our world smothers under ennui, apathy. No one cares. We inhabit tiny cages, think we’ve got it good, or not. We run, race, within our wheels, believe we are getting somewhere. We smoke weed, drink, pop pills, preen and pretend. We don’t see any of this, […]
Transformations
~~~~~ Let the world inhabit you, move you in strange, exotic directions. Imagine a new land where north, south, east, west are meaningless, arbitrary. Find there no time, but change ever present and everlasting. Expressions of limited duration. Only process, constant, no past, no future, a surprise waiting around every moment, even if we find […]
Full Circle or Geriatric Lament
~~~~~ When wee small and wheeled about, it’s the only way you could get out. When, past four score years and ten, it’s the only way you get out again. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think. […]
So They Post
~~~~~ Everything you are about to hear or read is true. Whether these stories are about me or about you. How should we tell these stories so they are real not some mountebank’s wild and fanciful spiel? I believe that we must trust ourselves, our gut. I think most folk are happy where they are, […]
Fullness of Time
~~~~~ The moon sports a Cheshire grin tonight, hiding its face behindaa sly smiling light. It will be revealed in the fullness of time, when over the brow of the hill it’ll climb, Many tell us, though it varies, it’s the same, playing hide and seek with the sun, a game. Mirroring light from the […]
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