Taking what life throws at me one pitch at a time
Déjà all over again
Risk versus rewards
Calculation
Irrational exuberance
Unreasonable expectations
Inflate
A bubble to bursting
Resounding pop resulting
Repercussions
Echoes in a regulatory void
Clipping aspirational wings
Again
Where there is confusion
There's money to be made
For sum
Little risk of a
spontaneous incursion
in this haiku form
so I made it a tanka
To fit verbose verbiage
a flurry of wings
flapping with blood soaked fury
bringing home the wreaths
a haiku a day
complete a puzzle or two
days start with a win
lacking rationale
cattywampus ciphering
mystical conjure
things that were true now denied
lies take corporeal form
Groupthink with a wink
Quail with the media snooze
Lest we start to think
Phrazez that Payzez
"Family is the cradle
of all the world's misinformation"
- White Noise
Liked the movie
The book was better
Apples to oranges
Graded on a curve
Melons to the rind
Things of a kind
Birds of a feather
Judgemental find
Original or cover
Anticipations hover
Spending time
In decisive grind
Neither is heeded
Some things are fine
No rating needed
From me or you
On most things
Thumb has retired
No up
No down
No exposition required
Let things of a kind
Be of their kind
Hefty car door slam
455 engine roars
Four barrel guzzle
Dinosaur bones from before
Buick Skylark GS growls
Time for us to talk
Rarely signals glad tidings
Harbinger of blame
The Grumpy Grandpas
In their dotage shuffle charts
Like they're tarot cards
Never mind the auguries
Reading them the way they choose
divided colors
suffused within light is a
rainbow recipe
I've always been one
to bang the drum slowly when
with other people
inflated prices
courtesy of insurance
makes us grin yellow
From great crimes
Comes great wealth
Following my nose
With a whiff and a sniff while
Poking as it goes
asymptomatic
maladies multiply with
every ad I see
highly unlikely
we'll all look back on this time
and have a good #laugh
the last showing of
the last show has been cancelled
due to faux outrage
Unpleasant at best
Has a mean streak a mile long
Rise of the dumb state
Hardly Socratic
Often idiosyncratic
Sometimes bureaucratic
Can be dramatic
To overblown panic
Then in full tilt manic
Confused as Satanic
With a hint of tannic
Just erie Shamanic
No need to get frantic
This is how my inner streaming stick rolls: 08/09/2024
profess lifelong love
this googly eyed romantic
done so many times
Took my Under Porch Boxster Spider
Out for a spin round town
Just to get off the web a bit
Playing the Stones extra loud
On the 8-track player
Singing "My my my
"Said the Spyder to the fly"
Great on the straight away
Right turns a bit of a strangle
Not so great on the corners
8-leg skittery slip thread
Tail spun out left to dangle
Until the toad truck came to feast
barely elected
apparatchiks plow through most
public opinions
dance with Demeter
seasonal agrarian
ritual plow play
a dead giveaway
is that tie is just a flag
that says you're lying
Our national prank
Day after day of pure shame
No longer funny
Body Politic
Pack of boneyard dogs howling
Cheap shots. Dirty shocks.
As summer swelters
My public trans ride goes on
I nicely ripen
Girl Scouts sell cookies
never know what a Brownie
will get on up to
morning after slink
easy in the big city
less so in small towns
noisy buggers both
cicada and katydid
each a unique sound
Keep the change baby
Change ain't what it used to be
Small change got rained on
Cause he wanted to be king
Links in history's change gang
A therapy named desire
When I signed up for the Gladiator Pilates class I should have been more suspicious. From the teapot poised on a plank resting on cinder blocks in the middle of the classroom, to the velvet gloves issued to each participant; the question arose. Was this a union instructor or just a Visigoth scab. The dove on the teacher’s shirt was a dead give away. I asked for a refund immediately.
A Scroll Threw Life 