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Crusade to End Public Torture
More certain and more frightening than death and taxes More pervasive, deadly and inevitable than a pandemic It will drive you buttier than a batterfly, watch the nets Wag your finger, shake your fist, hang your head and cry The presentation may be good, but you’ve seen it all before If you ever liked […]
The Swansong of William Theodore Peacock?
The Swansong of William Theodore Peacock? Stop up my ears and cover my eyes Redeem me from the nightly news From their blatant, calculated lies To the men behind the curtain, pay Pay no attention So-called leaders, smoke and mirrors Sleight of hand, misdirection and distraction Shall I evoke the message, style From an earlier […]
Governments’ Fear
Strange, disturbing and unnatural, the sight I witnessed earlier today Two people, women, sitting outside, talking in the old-fashioned way No phones, smart or dumb, no tablets, no pads, no games, no e-readers, Could I detect anywhere. Should I go and warn our fear-filled leaders? Anyone not plugged in twenty hours per day might […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR
The last day on our calendar changes odds to evens Repeats in opposition then, as regular as the seasons And we adjust our reckonings with a day thrown in Which lets us catch up to the sun and so begin again We treat each new year as new time, a new beginning Resolve to change, […]
Thoughts About Love
Love: You know you are in love when you’d rather be driven crazy by the person you’re with than be sane with anyone else. Love is always hopeful, kind, generous, aware, supportive, accepting, nurturing and able to withstand blows without breaking. Love can be implied or suggested, but never truly defined by what it is […]
That’s Enough!
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Prufrock’s Lament
LET us slow then, you and I. When vile emissions spread out across the sky The ether that lays us upon the table; Lets us skulk through fear-deserted streets, The mutterings retreat Of soulless nights in one-night cheap brothels And raw rust juggernauts and mortar shells; Streets that follow past the seediest tenement Too usurious […]
Opposites
Why do people think peace implies a boring sameness The cosmos where we live is composed of opposites We will never have everyone thinking the same way Nor would we ever even want to, if the truth be told But opposition is no way required to equal violence On and off, hot and cold, […]
I Wonder
I wonder what all the time spent traveling fast Planes, trains and automobiles has done to us When our psyches, minds, bodies are far cast Like sling-shot stones or a swiftly flying discus The faster we move, clearly, the less we see Is this why bodies fail when older, wind down Our mind, reflexes not […]
Can the Last be First?
All nice guys will finish last, what I have always heard Ever since I started life as a wee laddy, oh so very small Confused by lessons taught, reversed, it sounds absurd Learned have I, from kindergarten, goodness trumps all Thou Shall Nots take pride of place, as truths of a sage With almost […]
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