Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Know or Sell
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I would write a brilliant book, pen a poem, be pleased. Paint a magnificent masterpiece, Myriad multitudes of each, if the truth I tell . I imagine if I succeed, that I shall never see. Would it, I wonder, be better to know or sell? […]
Entirely
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ A new notebook, bright green, just because. Writing this with my bright red fountain pen. Using them to take me to where I’m going, and away from the places I’ve already been. Like time, we should flow with the stream. To do otherwise, we either […]
Somewhere Between
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Looping ink coils across my early am paper seeks to find answers to my life at slow-tilt, whether to record or discard the still hours. Wonder if my part in the play matters now. Walking along the shore upon a known path while strolling slowly […]
The Spaces Between
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Shall we talk then, shall we sing, discuss Rachmaninoff, analyze Proust, remembrance of future things? Will you tell me no one knows what tomorrow brings? As musicians fingers fly, over strings, along the keys; quickly, quickly, come listen. Not only notes, words, intonation, intention, momentary […]
Night Watch
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Written 11/3/2020 late afternoon Hear our voices embrace all with our hope and love, After Terra firma long vanished, no horizon in sight, Rich with a cautious joy and in a rising expectation. Transport us upon sweet votes repeated many times. A win over hate […]
Your Turn or Mine
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ To watch the leaves floating down. Something I remember from youth. In the Midwest and the East, where Season change in ways you notice. Unlike the subtle thinning of veils Between this one and the next one. Ultimately comes to the same end. Like the […]
Song and Sorrow
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ My story is one of song and sorrow That’s been told long years before. Should it then be shared tomorrow? Our many futures as others kissing, Use my lips, caress with my hands? I’m the newly born, shocked awake In the cold, sterile light of […]
Thinking Allowed
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Everything I’m about to tell you is true. Everything I’m about to tell you is a lie. My words will reach you after the sound of the car racing toward you, before the flying debris of the crash, the screaming, blood, pain and death. In […]
Sweep Away Darkness
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Am I having a nightmare or living in one? Can’t escape, whether under moon or sun. It’s when my eyes are open, when closed. Feels like I’m in a race riot, just got hosed. Most people that I see are wearing masks. Those without scare […]
They Have Survived
People Over Politics, Country Over Capitulation, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Lotus grows from dirty, muddy water, So beauty arises from something unclean. It self-propagates along the eight-fold path. But what does it mean for the world today? It’s lovely and may mean many things we need. Love and longing within the seed, is the son, […]
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