July 5 2025

The Daily Dread

reality lite
through a prism in my cell
wall of science site


while she took her bows
summer stock stage star's skin would
glisten neath prop moon



those that are tasked to
shuffle society's deck
palm a card or two

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A.I. image generated from single word prompt "hamartia"

July 4 2025

The Daily Dread

saddened that poison 
political pollen rains
down on our parade

a very long night
an early morning rally
meant smiles for breakfast


๐ŸŽผ
Hamartia
Hamartia
Hamartia
Let me go
๐ŸŽถ
Be-ellll-zebub you devil
Don't bring those damn flies
In here with me.
With me
With meeeeee
๐ŸŽต


frosty fingers clutch
fiscal lucre overcast
dumped unto others


July 3 2025

The Daily Dread

pondering at the
precipice of my palate
balsamic balance
savory and sweet linger
with trace memories of her



Sometimes I do five
Just to keep the algorithm
Slightly off balance


I said nobody
Puts ambient dread powder
In a cardboard box
It comes in plastic baggies
The good old nickel bag dread

What's going on here
Ain't no Boxer Rebellion
More of a greedy
Botox grifter power play
Grabbing more bloat with our bucks



haiku pebbles fall
like rain on the upside down
online lake of void


July 2 2025

The Daily Dread

so what makes me go 
heel to toe heel to toe that
magic makes it so



Kingfisher bragged that
"We're going to be so rich."
He didn't mean you



Equinox balance
Caress the wild within you
Always cedes valence


Wasted too much time
To rehearse conversations
That never happened



Phrazez that Payzez

Teen angst poetry love

Persistence is futile. The Borg ๐Ÿค–

I remember everything
I may not remember them correctly.
But I remember


July 1 2025

The Daily Dread

the ideal plum
for me is downloaded in
wrinkly prune format



With a great big yawn
If it ain't broke don't fix it
Is it nap time yet?


allegiance to a
floating crap game with loaded
dice and marked cards
will not a patriot make


floating crap game played
with loaded dice while dealing
out marked poker cards
not an easy allegiance
for a patriot to make



Where money is charged
Profiteers keep opaque what
Species go extinct

Phrazez that Payzez

I guess I was just born
A little bit out of control - Dave Allen


A.I. generated image from prompt, Brothers Balmy and Bomby Weasel

June 30 2025

The Daily Dread

to avoid dreaded
run-on sentences I use
haiku form instead



Nostalgia nonsense:
"Things were much better back then."
Nope. But lies stayed close



Oh this ain't balmy
It's a blast furnace out there
Believe me, I know



Nostalgic brothers
Balmy and Bomby Weasel
Plan chicken coop run


I watch and wonder at the amount of effort people waste
stacking the irrelevant on the inconsistent
next to the problematic hypothetical outcome
without knowing how much the
newborn irrelevant in the room weighs.

Just trying to chill
Up in the Empyrean
While y'all crying down there


June 29 2025

The Daily Dread

gentle gestures grace
kind moments and tender words
engrave my intent


stamping out any
scintilla of decency
in The Faker's rule



jack boots stomp down joy
a once profuse people view
desolate demo



Entangled pleasure
Regret. Not a #scintilla
Engraved memories



Profuse scintilla
Oxymoron for the spark
Of kindness in law


Bottled spring water.
It's a short leap to selling
us bottled spring air.

It was a mismatch that could only be made in heaven
All she wanted was more
All I wanted was less

Adventures in urban hiking

Another close encounter with a 5G urban traveler
This was just a pass by not a collision course.
Close enough that whistling a few bars of my mantra

๐ŸŽถ I cannot see
๐ŸŽถ Look out for me

Made them look up from their phone momentarily
Watch where they were going.
Is this a daily occurrence or just random synchronicity
for the last few days?

Don't touch that dial

On the plus side; I spend a lot less time reading the news.
Any article that starts, "Trump says..." I can skip over
Cause I know what follows that pre mumble will be twaddle.

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