Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Don’t You Know?
~~~~~ All our symbols of success and failure are much more than they might appear. Though they may not be what you think. Paper, metal bits, a conspirator’s wink. If you are rich, you believe I am wrong. All your wants, needs met, a happy song. If you are poor, you know that I’m right. […]
We Shall
~~~~~ In the deepest darkness where most folks don’t go, you will discover people not wearing any clothes. In the deepening darkness where most of us dwell, everyone’s willingly blind. No fire, yet still it is hell. Each lives with a view, whether it is day or night. Some fear the bright sun and others […]
The Giftie Gie Us
~~~~~ How then cannot we see our own true selves? The poet’s answer realized in our social media, where we act half fools and do naught by halves. Constantly connected, on Twitter to Wikipedia. Do we ever look in this mirror that we created? Join we this grand communion, or voyeurs only. And judging others […]
Book Lice and Mice
Where Air Becomes Breath ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Would I write something brilliant if I could write as well as I think? Would it register, matter to anyone or be hidden in the halls of history? Might an unknown future scholar discover how a cryptic poet sings? Show the words better soul’s food than […]
Back Rent
~~~~~ I already begin to see what a time sinkit is being able to read on my cellphone.As I rest here and read, I start to think.I recall my time here is merely on loan. I don’t think reading is a waste of timeif our minds and hearts are wide open.Even if you’re drinking vodka […]
Six to One
~~~~~ I have heard the moral sophistry where you must decide who will die. About the fabled switchable trolley which is aimed at one or five people. You are told you may only decide who will be hit if you pull the switch. The test being about the greater good. It ignores a choice of […]
Driving Past Pandemic Views
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ As is true of the past, and even more so now, It grows smaller as it becomes days of yore. The future grows brighter, I am not sure how, as 2020, 2021 fade in our year-view mirror. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy […]
Future Worth
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Blue skies today follow clouds, dark with rain gushing like tears. Staying home, my head bowed. My device reinforcing my fears. We are daily fed a diet fit to kill. Madness, mayhem everywhere. Many people do what they will. As we who comply, shout unfair. We must decide […]
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 […]
Dream Strange Dreams
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Patterns upon patterns upon patterns. All our world is full of shapes and lines. Some appear solid, but science says no. Some are shadows and reflections of us, Our world patterns cast upon everything. How to know, what is real, what is not? Is it a question, or […]
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