~ There’s just so much non-sense a soul can endure From the trivial minded, decided, obdure. I met one once lambasting for sure The current administration: denigration, impure. Oh sure. They do it. Again and again. Forever and ever, and on to no end. Things are […] Continue reading
~ Alvin Valdez and I would wend Our way down main at lunchtime. A bookstore in store much long before The store became such the main focus. A conglomerate deal With central appeal To the coffeehouse weal, The Barnes and Noble house status. A long tall hall, poor light and all, […] Continue reading
~ A blank sheet of paper Awaits to be filled; Marks, unto letters; Words, to be spilled. Lines, run to margins, To keep them entailed: Thoughts put on paper, Potential, trammelled. Like gardens that taper From fresh fallowed fields, Thoughts are the crops, […] Continue reading
~ The sun shines bright even at night where millions of stars show off their lights in Navy blue sky pinpricked by sight, Nightlights highlights the ground all around ‘Til the moon takes her flight and drowns the crowd down. Ah! las tierra bella […] Continue reading
~ Austin, Texas is ten times bigger Than the town that I used to know. Those Longhorn Steers, the way I figure, Fifty some-odd years ago, Were 80k number where now it’s just under A million or more souls or so. Should I go back there […] Continue reading
~ Keswick is large, but not Bed & Breakfast; Rather, an Inn or resort. Very expensive, old English style; Fox Hunts with Hounds and the Horns. Having retired, and part of the Perks, The company let us a weekend. My wife and I chose, that close to Easter, When Winter weather averts. […] Continue reading
~ Out in the country, a man forms in line, at a store to pay for his gas. I stand behind him, making the line; another, falls in close behind me. The man in the front hands a Fifty Dollar bill to the clerk. She holds it on purpose, up to the light, and marks […] Continue reading
~ Dialing. Ringing. Answer. Hello. May I help you? Yes, please. I would like to schedule an inspection, for fireplace conversion. What kind of work is that? I don’t know. Haven’t a clue. Is it plumbing? Yeah. That sounds about right. Okay. Hold on then. I’ll transfer you to the inspector. Dialing. Ringing. Answer. […] Continue reading
~ he was alone, as everyone is; and will be ’til each one will end. and wherever he roam, he’ll return to home; to his mind, where we find it begin. the reality though, he simply won’t go to the places that will not exist. […] Continue reading
~ I never knew much of celebrity; I never was “up on the times.” Much too much busy after a war, Getting re-fitted on Uncle Sam’s dime. An Academe, a Labyrinthine; Lost in the Halls of all Arts & Letters. A Theseus, of sorts, A […] Continue reading
~ This page of paper these pencil prints now on an iPad in pixelized bits symbolic notations dark hieroglyphs a meaning a message a hand pictograph a sign signified an idiot code signs imply signals significance […] Continue reading
~ Each day As I watch it, It slowly evades. Fade! Fade! It all fades away. Time, Oh Time! It slides by, Away! It goes by, Flies by! Belies us, Some say. It changes, Erases, Turns faces to gray. Fade! Fade! […] Continue reading
~ I cannot I will not I do not read others… Lest, one day They may come And grift me, My brothers, By saying I’ve copied, Lifted or stole Ideas from them, From poems I had read. But… I have to look! Sometimes I look. Oft times […] Continue reading
~ The hardest part is doing the right, But then, it takes time to know it. I heard it once said: “Thirty years make a man.” But now, I’m not so sure of it. At twice the space I err just as much – I count all the […] Continue reading
…. This is the month That my mother died. The year fades fast To memory. It must have been written In pencil somewhere, On paper, And there set in stone; And after awhile, It all erases. ~ Befuddled, perplexed; At sevens and six; Forwards, sideways, And backwards: The […] Continue reading
Tink's ChapBlog ~ Tales of the Tribe. Mythopoeic Verse 