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Still from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

May 27 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday


Penetration tool
A drill can build or destroy
Favorite weapon as
slasher film backup or for
environmental rapists 


Senator Slug fell in line
To kiss the befouled ring
To follow the slimy trails
Left by lobbiest #Nudibranch 
Money, power, social bling
Gold encrusted shells 
Now hunker on the back bench
Like big ol' nasty snails



Chick Diakon played by
Bud Abbott when he and Lou
Met with Frankenstein 



Words that land fallow
Often come from a callow
Self centered fellow

Fellowship

AmbientDread

A place to sit by a lovely old tree on the shore of Lake Michigan. Looks like it has been through more than a few storms and lived to tell about it. #SeatSearch
May 27, 2025, 3:40 pm

May 26 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday


Don't need a quorum
Predation of predators 
now make all the rules



takes lots of restraint
from all of us to start to
scale back the hate


it was none to bright
of me to stay all night
in bone chilling sleet


I saw no future.  
Groomed to be up to my butt 
in Nam rice paddies

1-H to 1-A 
Random sequence number was 
seventy six. Yikes 

Lucky me. The draft  
stopped a year hence thanks to those  
that went before me


Memorial Day / Decoration Day for you Civil War Vets out there 02:48 PM

In early May of this year my father would have been 119. Passed away long ago in his late 70s. One of my favorite memories was when the Right Wing  became  NAZI curious ala Blues Brother's Movie era. Some of those knuckle heads set up a little podium in a park I was playing tennis in. My friends and I went over and mocked them mercilessly until they went away. Although they tried their typical intimidation cosplay, even the Chicago Police didn't have much use for these miscreants then. Eventually they went back to the rock they crawled out from under. I told my dad, a WWII vet, when I went home and all he said was, " I wish I knew. I'd have got my gun and shot them."

May 25 2025

Posted on by Pete

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Yesterday


It's quite the travail  
To hack through the wilderness 
With all this baggage 


Watch it develop
Snapshot taken of my soul
Shows where I have been



It's in the dosage
All things can become toxic
Even detoxing 
 


Written June 7, 2024
Recalled for Memorial Day

Eighty years ago 
yesterday, my father paid
a surprise visit 

To Normandy's shores.
Took no selfies. Stayed awhile.
Came back. Told no tales.

May 24 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday


things that dwell in me
are fine, things that lurk within
are what troubles me


Not joined at the hip.
Tickle my seclusion would
describe her visits.


It could be said that
Don, the ne'er-do-well narwhal 
was long in the tooth


now to become a 
fully imagined human 
instance by using 
scrolling data and shifting 
curves the good old fashioned way


My very first toot:

My internet dependency has gotten so bad I can't wipe my butt without viewing a YouTube video on the best way to proceed.

May 23 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

In dog eat dog world 
Feel the boneyard hounds snarling
Deep in your marrow

 

takes more than a skim
of the leaves off the surface
to make a pool clean 



Poised on the cusp of
Bicuspid disaster I
Bite the jerky hard

Chased Sue around cause
Thought the memo said pursue
It was signed, Per Sue

things that I pursue
often start pursuing me
eventually 




Dust in the wind is
like admiration on the
internet. Fleeting.

Big Bilious Bowel Movement Dumped on the Nation


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May 22 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

such things cannot be
sufficiently despised is
the correct response
to corrupt actions taken
by despotic land grabbers



nineteen eighties greed
bonfire of the vanities
compared to today's
narcissistic avarice blaze
was a prescient flickering 


Sealed maritime doom
For many wayward sailors
Elkie the Selkie 


End morning mind defragmentation 08:34 AM


Picture of two monkeys glaring at each other with a grinning monkey in the background Me about to make a bad situation worse by injecting some ill-timed humor

May 21 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

woke up after that
red red wine went you know where
broke my blue blue heart


So much ado
About bangs 
About whimpers
In with a bang
Out with a whimper 
Is still in
Is still out
Meanwhile
There will be bangs
There will be whimpers


a slip of the tongue
a nod and a wink and still
we are stuck with it

a slip of the tongue
exposed a nod and a wink
sold out in plain sight 


With wine on our breath
We slip into old patterns
With but a whimper 



Perfect recipe
To make the outrage cake rise
Is a touch of snark

Phrazez that Payzez 

"Awash in a grand quantity of private torment "

The Ministry of Time
Kailiane Bradley

why smear facts around
when rumors spread and flower
out of every crack


Daily Skiptrace

May 20 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

When focus is lost the whole world blurs into chaos

orientation 
of the road means full blast force
when the north wind blow


profitable for
some to create problems that
you need defense from



there's a time to fight 
then there's a time to take flight
timing must be right 



The outside of a silhouette 🗣️ is where the real action happens

Toss a silhouette 
On the cave wall. What's outside?
Track and hunt those beasts.

Seems like yesterday
We observed an equinox
Now a solstice comes
Juncos smack in the crisp cold
Dark eyes glitter in the snow


going from drastic
plastic to tragic tantric 
tantrum terror plots
by bilious faux billionaires 
serving sorrow by the sack

Photo of small figures on a bridge post newel of a Triceratops T-Rex and Mastodon on a globe.

May 19 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

Dangling their bait lies
over mouths like Anglerfish.
Our Executives 


The enemy of 
our sanitary practice
Worf and his Cling-Ons. 

Ewww 🫡

affection takes rust
off an old heart replacing 
it with verdant growth



Time to face the fact
Social media is the 
Antithesis of
Archaic admonishment 
To mind your own damn business


SMPTE bars of life
Between front and back porch time
Color burst pulse scan

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May 18 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

A current affair
Goose-stepping towards Gomorrah 
A kick in the pants
For a country once proud and free
All of it seen on TV


Later Hebrew prophets named the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah as adultery, pridefulness, and uncharitableness.


a current affair
goose-stepping towards disaster 
kick in the pants to
a country once proud and free
all of it seen on TV



Picking pockets over the airwaves 
Lifestyles of the rich and shameless
Displaying what everyone craves
Lives lived for the concealed nameless
Facades roiled up with foiled fear
To enhance their greezy fingered grip
Wrapped in a #wraith of wrathful sneer
Served up in intravenous media drip
Showing what corporations say we need
Just another televised American Screed 



Picking pockets on airwaves 
Lifestyles rich and shameless
Displayed vision craves
Lives of the once nameless
Facades roiled with foiled fear
Enhances greezy finger grip
Wrapped in a #wraith of wrathful sneer
Intravenous media drip
Display stuff said we need
A televised American screed

Dust storm hits my town
Something I've not seen before
Airborne field dirt wind
Watch nineteen thirties redux
Horrors replay before US




Time to release the potential promise within to kinetic kindness without. Detonate goodness all over all the place. Boom!

Reworked  2017 post written while on the lamb

Time to release 
Potential promise 
Within 
Kinetic kindness 
Without 
Detonate goodness 
All over the place
Boom!

AmbientDread

May 18, 2025, 8:55 pm 0 boosts 1 favorites