Aug 12 2025

The Daily Dread



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

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Aug 11 2025

The Daily Dread



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


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Aug 10 2025

The Daily Dread



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


Silent Sunday

Aug 9 2025

The Daily Dread



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


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Aug 8 2025

The Daily Dread

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.

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Aug 7 2025

The Daily Dread

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

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Aug 6 2025

The Daily Dread

base instinct always
dive on in at the drive-in
long lost passion pit



Rules of engagement
2am dive bar last call
Desperate timeline



Ignoring the once golden rule
Feel they're the anointed few
Appointed to sputter and spew
Self aggrandizing gold accolades
Holier than thou power plays
Keeping all that believe them afraid
A populace wholly betrayed
When the people who make the laws
Don't bother to follow their rules



First came the corn sweat
Now wildfire violet sunsets
Air of disaster

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Aug 5 2025

The Daily Dread

pink pyramid cult
a new recruit gets pressure
buy tons of product
while upline collects profit
inventory collects dust



Regarding the sass
Seems there's good sass and bad sass
Right Sassy Lassie
Now don't you sass me Lassie
But that is some deluxe sass




deep primordial
catfish rises from the mud
finds thin ice layer
new age epoch harbinger
dives down to warm muck below




Normally tranquil
Sporadically complex muse
Today, blew my fuse

A.I. image generated from prompts "Sassie Lassie" of idealized collie

Aug 4 2025

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I can't help myself
Attention will zoom in where
nature tells it to




Our Lady of the
Spiral Spindle, guardian
angel of Spinners



A spiral zoom in
Traps tranquil angel in frame
Chaos wipe to black


spiral archetype
problem solving tchotchke tao
send donations now


silence so loud you
can hear it all the way from
here to yesterday
and back again all the way
from tomorrow and beyond

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Aug 3 2025

The Daily Dread

when we try to stand
seems like some rich pukes want to
make us kneel and beg
for the honor of paying
them for the trash they're selling



I lift myself up
Defrag my brain with haiku
Stand what comes my way



they say in person
he has his charm, but only
if you stand up wind



For years Red believed
Wandered on the wilderness
A seekers mission

The goal he was sold
The elusive spondulix
Prosperity gold

Then Red realized
All that glitters ain't gold, so
Red leaves pilgramage


a long spelling trek
spell pilgrimage correctly
stumbles on the way



Abundance above
Dammed by greed to overflow
Trickle dance below

Recreating a 1970's Saturday night
Having pizza and Heineken
Left me as foggy this morning
As the wildfire smoke outside
Smells like 1980's Los Angeles air

If it wasn't for misperception
I'd have no perception at all