Tag Archives: newtown

What We Need?

Video games train us Violence, murder Hand eye coordination Mayhem’s future Except, perhaps We have not reached Reached far enough Into tomorrow Into all our tomorrows Extrapolated Final effects So much; too, too Too much Death, destruction A random boy Twelve-years-old Tells us He likes to play Play Leona Feminine, heroin A killing machine This […]

Wag Chins, Flap Gums

Well, they all do make really valid points Though their topic of discussion is unclear If we all sit down and smoke several joints We will then believe we’ve nothing to fear How do we deal with overdose information Religion, drugs, sex, TV, or move a mouse Whatever, we succumb, labor or recreation King, queen […]

Hark

Hark, there has been yet another mass shooting And for me, at least, such news is growing so old Headlines all become just me-too dull and boring And I’d think us better off if we were never told This wild-west shoot-em-up now commonplace And it blurs together, so oft echoed, a daily cant So numbed […]

Blessing of Age

Hours, I stood waiting, hours which felt like days to my knees and ankles. I wanted to scream, but the pain in my joints had reached such a banshee wail, I wondered that others didn’t hear it as well. Despite the best-laid plans, I arrived between three and four am and nowhere near the front […]

A New Way

  Talk to me; foretell my future Mired ‘neath murky clouds Shades of black and gray No more bright sun Limns the shadow What portends our pretense? Is it more Than happenstance? Will we ever Change the steps Of our fell dance? While peacocks preen Clean each feather Display their plumage For each other In […]

Life Lessons

A fireplace in a solid home, wooden mantle and surround Fluting, details in the wood and built-in shelves either side Mementoes from this life, ancestors, previous generations History contained memories, feeling felt within sentiment Meanings, we understand, more important than money Have more significance than any goods real or imagined Yet, one day these memories […]

Red Shifted

Watching the news last night Noticed something, caused a fright Stories full of depraved, depressing sights Ads for new medicines, so I will not die tonight Told who died, was shot, or another dastardly deed Told I can’t breathe, my ticker’s bad, but they have what I need A plane’s gone missing, a another new […]

Conflict of Interest

We all want it. We all want it all. We do. Do we? Or is that just a story we’ve been repeatedly told? Love, home, family, food, friends no longer hold Enough; fail to comprehend what enough may be New flashy car, a fancy man, a trophy wife to start All the latest apps we […]

Coffee Break’s Over

Thinking about meaning, life, the universe, everything And remembering the question’s answer is forty-two Fun and silly, but, I believe, it may be onto something The one percent, owning most of America, worry, too Statistically I recently heard, that in another sixty years Our wasp majority population figure will have dwindled The exact figure I […]

Never Live In Fear

How will we decide what to do, what to think, what we will think In our world of conflicting opinions, way too much information While we caper and cavort blindfolded, ever so close to the brink Believing we’re so ordinary, nothing extraordinary can be done When actions are performed beyond the pale, it will not […]