The Future’s Future

~ Ah! Young mother!     standing with son,   Pray tell us:     What you have done?   Why, the Future, my dear!     He’s standing right here. And the Future has barely begun.   ~ And what’s to be told     for the Future of old, like us, no longer […] Continue reading

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Veteran’s Day

. It’s Veteran’s Day, November 11th, and the year is 2011. Nothing special will happen today other than the date of 11/11/11. . Perhaps that date would be more special if the year were 1111 — except it wouldn’t be Veteran’s Day. . It would ’‘really’‘ be special Before the Common Era; do you think […] Continue reading

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Canyons

~ The canyon walls so do enthrall, the heights are so impressive; ~ these canyons call great wherewithals, from man’s great flights of fancy. ~ On Sundays, bare, there’s no one there; yet, still it fels expressive. ~ A paper cup that someone’s dropped retains the single vestige ~ immaterial, though ethereal – an abstract […] Continue reading

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Full Moon Over Hooville

~ There’ a full moon over Hooville, that I’ve never seen before. What’s so different bout it now, I’m really just not sure. ~ It might be what that old Greek said, Heraclitus in 454, you never see the same thing twice — only change, to be cocksure. ~ So this moon I’ve never seen […] Continue reading

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Relativisted

~ I’m tongue tied and twisted, I’m relativisted; now how old do you think that I am? ~ Oh Lordy, Lordy! Oh to be forty, Oh to be forty again. ~ They say I am qwerky, I’m from Albuquerque! so I’ll be quirky again. ~ I’m tongue tied and twisted, wilted and wasted, but then, […] Continue reading

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Paradigm Shift

Thursday Poets Rally Week 56 (Nov 17-23, 2011)     ~ Autumn falls fast, when it springs into Winter, whilst all along Winter is getting warmed up. ~ And all of this happens so plentifully fast, which augments the feelings of a life moving past. – So fast!   Too fast! Is it time moving passed? – […] Continue reading

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The Pro

‘The Pinkerton piece says she won’t make it to 60.’ ‘And what’s that?’ I ask. ‘Kerry Comitzky.’ ‘No. I mean the Pinkerton piece.’ ‘Dr. Pinkerton? You know Dr. Pinkerton, of course.’ ‘Of course, But still: What’s that?’ Such goes the banter both back and forth; and so go all conversations. And who cares really? This […] Continue reading

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The Safe Distance Silence

~ A silence abounds when we make our rounds, for my two dogs and I on our walks.  ~ There are houses with spouses, with singles, and what-not’s. They don’t wave, they won’t smile, much less will they  talk.  ~ This silence astounds on these daily done rounds, it’s the sound of a safe distance […] Continue reading

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Lemongrass

  Crabgrass, wiregrass, it has all sorts of names; but it’s all the same — unwanted. Like old Ronnie Reagan’s Borax Mule Team boys, tough and rugged, it settles in for the long haul.   You have to de-root it. Eradicate it     completely.   But the roots run deep. One can waste many […] Continue reading

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November’s Passion

  Red, russet leaves ashamed by the Fall, there’s a change to be seen in the air, overall.   From verdant green to a red, russet rust. Pray tell, my dear darlings, what makest ye blush?   Whilst young and yet green, you had cast a great sheen! But now time hast passed us to […] Continue reading

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All Heads Shook No

  And Terrance was a young man! He was still very young on his first business trip overseas. To speak in India. What a lucky young man, and each one is probably a Hindu.   The lectern was set, the film slides began, Terrance was well on his way.   A few minutes in he […] Continue reading

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I Win

  So I’m in retirement now. I’ve made it around the plates, and I’m home free. All that life. Spent working every day. Day in, day out. All the people I met along the way. I wonder where they are now. I wonder if they wonder where I am.   I made it home, though. […] Continue reading

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Here’s How It Is

  and the world still moves on — On one week a hero, the next time the villain. What seems once as right turns out to be wrong.   What’s thought of as bad was right all along; and the winning of gates still goes to the strong.   A chance in one million, for […] Continue reading

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