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If I Knew How
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I am a weirdo, from bottom to top. Don’t ask me, I’m sure I won’t stop. It’s simply the way I was born to be, not crazy or stupid, completely me. Eccentric is the word you might use, though creative is the one I’d choose. […]
Watching, Waiting
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Sitting and watching the day outside, On this the shortest day of the year. Some trees are shedding their leaves. Evergreens stand watching, waiting. Winter days begin lengthening now. Still days inside to contemplate and to create, fix our lives and our beings. Relax and […]
Wherever It’s Not
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What would I see if I were a tree looking both high and low? Watching the rootless barely here, before it’s their time to go. Though they think there span is more than enough to murder me, who’s seen thousands of turns. I understand passing […]
Phantoms
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I’m trying to remember how the rain felt, once, jumping into puddles, when I played younger. Fat drops from the sky. Drops I made in reply. I don’t recall fear then. Yet, I am afraid lately. Did similar phantoms fill my days, my sleep? Do […]
Only Who I Am
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Words, for me, wind down My art draws me, to paint All my words, all the words Any language, form, intent Incomplete to curry change Still I grasp I’ll persist, scribbling Verses, essays, stories, more Offering vision, being, truth My truth, which the universe Fills […]
Too Late
Please, comment if you can and let me know what you think. People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Within these days of isolation, silence, consumed by noise and confrontation, Have you remembered those you love, Remembered in time, said, I love you? Thought will mean nothing when alone. Wonder what will […]
Streets Run Crimson
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ All of our greedy, gutless impeders Who aid the spineless fool at large, Do all they can and nothing much To keep their simple tool in charge. Non-conceder; he we did discharge. But not Mitch; he remains at large. As a dozen plus Attorneys General […]
Physical World
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ It’s time for my annual physical. At this moment, I’m feeling fine, cleaner than a proverbial whistle. At least, both my hands are clean. I washed for 20 seconds at home. Sanitized my hands out of my car. Again, when I entered the office. Had […]
Afflicted
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Afflicted Variations on a theme by PBH For the United-States failure to act. Masks and distance became required. While you got let go, laid off or fired, COVID-sick; do your eyeballs bleed, while with your fickle gods you plead? Go crazy; nothing’s what you […]
Time We Must Wait
People Over Politics, Survival Over Surrender, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Light all the candles. Speak the ritual words. From the past, from the future. Do they now have meaning? Did they ever? Do you believe they will be heard? If they are heard, will it matter? Another ritual, lost. Come and gone, yet to be. […]
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