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Nov 26, 20241 min read
Longsuffering
I feel bad for 404 as its page is never found, that it’s lumped with oops and error—  that all of the numbers before it somehow escape...
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Nov 26, 20241 min read
Why Haiku is a Waste of My Time
What endless depth of meaning can you say in 17 clicks? Â I know, English forms have no such syllabic binds, though a line of 3 remains,...
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Nov 25, 20241 min read
A Lesson In Impermanence
By now we know the Berenstains weren’t Jewish, there was never a bear who was stein, all of those many matzos going to waste ;  ...
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Nov 25, 20241 min read
Søren and Hobbes
I think I’ve become a cynic due to everybody’s lies— hell, bullshit won its way into the White House yet again ; while the richest man...
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Nov 25, 20241 min read
The Recluse
For years I’ve played it safe or so you’ve said, bolting shut the windows when it’s sunny, turning off the news before the weather,...
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Nov 24, 20241 min read
On the day the poets went on strike
there were no more birds in the trees—well, there were, but every finch and sparrow felt relief, no more voyeurs spying on their sunrise...
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Nov 23, 20241 min read
You Ask for a Poem for Peace
and I give you this :  it’s Gordon Ramsey saying that it’s ok, you tried your best ; when the wellington is raw and the patrons up and...
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Nov 23, 20242 min read
Only Two Words
The answer to this question is yes or no.  That’s three words.  Everyone assumes the yes is most important, the...
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Nov 23, 20241 min read
Lucas, Life of the Party
You’ve always liked it dim. Complain about light pollution, that it prevents you from seeing the stars,  while the steeple that shines...
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Nov 22, 20242 min read
Upon Hearing This Isn’t Love
This should be a love poem nowadays. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.  There’s surely hearts involved throughout the stanzas on...
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Nov 22, 20241 min read
Volare
The Latin word volare is a verb that means to fly. When an acute accent is added to the final "e"— volaré— it becomes the Spanish...
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Nov 21, 20241 min read
Rabies, or Tissues are a boy's best friend
I was hoping to make you cry with all the images that follow.  Not because I’m mean, heartless, one who seems to revel in the sadness of...
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Nov 20, 20241 min read
A Little Young
When I noted Elizabeth Taylor was rather pretty,  in 44’s National Velvet,  you said she’s a little young.  Yet she wasn’t a little...
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Nov 20, 20242 min read
Skeletons
If trees are lungs in the summer, they are nothing but bones in the winter. Â Skeletons lack the credit they deserve. A skull just the...
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Nov 19, 20241 min read
Why I Will Never Win a Poetry Contest
I have to say I love you in 40 lines or less.  Space between the stanzas count as a line.  This is now my 10th—11th— fuck I am in...
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Nov 18, 20241 min read
Bliss
My window is an extra eye, one that tells my brain it isn’t raining , how gusty the gales might be, that the city has sent its crew to...
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Nov 11, 20241 min read
Love Poem for a Woman
If it's blasphemy to say this then so be it. You are the one whom God should have made in the beginning. A more beautiful name for each...
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Nov 10, 20241 min read
The Colour of Jazz
The Trane provides me a view above the asphalt, and the fault that splits  both bleached and yellow lines.  One-way signs of...
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Nov 5, 20241 min read
Juxtapositions
I pluck the olives  from the salad and that makes it less than Greek. You ask me if they’re green or black and I state it makes no...
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Nov 4, 20241 min read
The Automaton
I’m asked at once to confirm the fact that I am not a robot  but I am.  I don’t need to wrestle with a CAPTCHA, say how many   fucking...
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