Found fiction, conceived I believe by Eric Alagan, is a concept I discovered on his site Written Words Never Die. You’ll find him at http://ericalagan.net/ I highly recommend the visit. Although I’m working on some strictly concept pieces, I decided initially to apply my own twist and use the daily newspaper headlines and subheads I […]
All Bets Are Off Part II My extremely simplified recap of how I think we get where we are and why and how we need to change, continued. As the world grew toward today, population spread through exploration and conquest. If you were on the winning side of these equations life became relatively safer, but […]
More than 1,000 Uprisings continue needs Death warning art world Thousands out in cold Assault on girl after dance Education breakdowns Selection begins Selfishness will end career Bigotry, just fine 1960s hits Time follows sunset horror Studios to close Mentor clobbers champ Jurors face man found shot, death Defense suspension Murder advantage Show follows jail-time […]
Full house, future lost Undermine strong rivalry Evacuate well Forcing of farewell Smart ideas could mean rare hope Creates inquiries Millionaire harm up Punishment for humanity Closure, bid adieu Bridges open soon Borders could fall by wayside Public resents law How unlikely but Lack of tech jobs hurts whole case Upmarket value Puppet dream funny […]
INSANITY IN GENERAL (Bright Banter From Bumptious Bankers) (Sung to the tune of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General) We are the very model of insanity in general We’ve information financial, domestic and commercial We know the ins and outs of law and quote interest rates fiducial From the lowest to the […]
INSANITY IN GENERAL (A paean to Tea-Party paranoia) (Sung to the tune of I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General) We are the very model of insanity in general We’ve information violent, atrocical and criminal We know the guns of murder, and we quote the deaths statistical From Birmingham to Newtown in order […]
That’s Enough What follows is a bit of a rant, but I found it important to say. I hope you will stay through to the end, and that you’ll be accepting of what I think and believe even if you don’t agree with me. Is it in the blood or in the brainwashing? I’m like […]
It’s hard to know what to think. Has the world gone mad? Or is it that there are just so many people and so much news centered around murder, mayhem, disaster, mass shooters and disturbed bombers that we cannot escape for even a moment to appreciate what we have. We all have busy lives, stress […]
THE LEOPARD Leopard! Leopard! spurning flight Will you vanish in the night? What mortal weapon hand or spree Would end thy fearful symmetry? Not so distant wait the flies To watch the fire leave your eyes. On what fell wings do the descend Your flesh and sinew then to rend? And you molder and depart […]
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Headline Haiku
This is my form of haiku which embraces our modern world by using only words culled from the headlines and sub-heads found in my daily newspaper. I hope to discover a sense, a tone of daily life. I do not change words, other than in the use of capitalization and hyphenated words previously used adjectively. […]