Dismal 204
Category: blog
July 22 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
Leave a thankless job
Transit to a joyless home
Train ride refugee
a promise to train
transforms into a lifetime
of soul crushing debt
slap dash calabash
with a lick and a promise
took the task to hand
very fast and none to clean
slippery split with a twist
it's a better choice
a melon scented candle
than alternative
aromas on the market
of the pheromonal kind
July 21 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
well past midsomer
hope against hope our wanton
wanderings recur
Child's happy place
Cotton candy frolic feast
Full of pinks and blues
Akin to adults
Ether frolics but with sweets
Not so different
Tails from Florida
Of long lived porpoises
And chatty Mynah birds
He was lost
Until he found
His special purpose
Was transporting Mynahs
Across state lines
For immortal porpoises
So he went into politics
7/21/2024
Sand in the gears gumming up the works
all part of a Russian nesting doll scam
to keep us at each other's throats
Russian nesting doll
scams throwing sand in the works to
foist oligarch rule
glad I tuned out of
a week of blowing smoke and
pounding sand up our...
July 20 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
No mistranslations
No cultural biases
Pure #spiritual sea
yesterday's brain squall
caused my haiku to wash up
on the wrong hashtag
snow drift of old news
blows under my cabin door
needs a tighter seal
today is just one
more example of humans
humaning because
we are great big bundles of
our cognitive dissonance
catching fish the goal
fishing's purpose has a more
existential vibe
Stake Out
I thought I was done
Until I became undone
Who on earth does that
Stick a fork in me
Be gentle. Try not to hurt
I bleed out easy
Just flip me again
I can take it cause I'm tough
And getting tougher
Improperly seared
Becoming dry and chewy
Now a good shoe sole
July 19 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
Fear induced fracas
False evidence flows for all
Freezing out freedom
Cruelty continues
'Til we regain our senses
Offset the upset
Semi precious opinions
Colorful layers to see
Hardened shell of glinting rock
Protects vacuous inside
Onus is on the onyx
To repel free range insight
Shields penetrating knowledge
From sneaking into the core
The check I gave her
was blank. The only result?
My overdrawn heart
Off The Old Block
Today’s prompt caused this spark in my neural pathways
once a wire
add a switch
born a circuit
became integrated
to be a transistor
shrunk to a chip
begat a microchip
quantum computing
here I come
Yikes!
July 18 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
passions purple pulse
wraps me in wisteria's
woody twining vines
Now there is my view
Then of course there is your view
When will the twain meet
Biscuit Hammer went
down deep into the salt mine
with no cool off time ⚒️
Phrazez that Payzez
Livin' la Vida Asymptomatic 🕺🏻
When AI eyes are smiling
Your job is on the line
Eggshells
Spending time around
A person you feel the need
To walk on eggshells
Whenever they're near is like
Walking on gilded splinter
Fragile treading way
To walk on pins and needles
Not making a sound
Puts a deep hurt on the sole
Would rather walk on sunshine
July 17 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
off in the distance
what seemed to be the glimmer
of fireworks was
instead the unleashed fury
of hunter killer wrath drones
stopping for green lights
built for comfort not for speed
with nineteen eighties
ultra cool blue on the side
extra mellow fellow plate
willing to assist
teetering on tenterhooks
with those delicate
behind the back hooks and eyes
to receive my special treat
A Scroll Threw Life 