June 22 2025

The Daily Dread

so much happening 
nothing said seems to ring true
wary world watches


aristocracy
#progenitor spirit champs
the bit for over
a hundred years seizing this
moment to shackle us all


The fearful fox watched
Picnic proceedings for scraps
After dark pickings


progenitor fear
loud ring in our ears warns this
won't be no picnic

When I was very young I received a rubber band powered propeller plane. Not the cheap balsa wood models, but a smaller, lighter design. A light frame covered with very colorful cloth. I remember it as blue, orange, and yellow. After assembly I took it in the yard for its first flight. It soars and flies beautifully right through the open ventilation window under our back porch. The place where lumber, ladders, and spare building materials for my father's ever ongoing house repairs and unfinished renovations. I never found the plane; even when years later I cleaned that area out. From time to time I would search again and again. Where did it go? I still wonder to this day.

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June 21 2025

The Daily Dread

when the liminal
becomes the subcarrier
signal waves bye-bye



as the earth leans in
cry not for shrinking daylight
embrace the darkness


Tipped on its axis
The drunk world slurs it's solstice
Planetary binge
Celestial power drinking
Earth wobbles out of control


June 20 2025

The Daily Dread

I remember when police wore shirts to work

For most of my life
It ran in strict parallel
Within it's privileged shell

Course change late strife
Dragged its slimy trail
To intersect our tale

It proceeded to foist
Mealy mouthed and moist
It's fetid festering soul

A global hairy mole
No channel change
Can stop the strange



Geezer cynic shouts
"Let's get ready to grumble!"
Complaining ensues


first mash them all up
heat and serve in a big bowl
fresh hot tea peas soup


And then I heard that grapes were just hemorrhoids on a stick. Put me right off wine for a while.

Statistically I may have twenty years. That's because I'm the luckiest man in the world. But all the things i learned in my first twenty years were the best. So the best is yet to come.

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June 19 2025

The Daily Dread

taking a short walk
into a long days vortex
to meet my long night



Dog days of summer
Ushered in by long spring days
Don't seem as long now



a controlled fall down
earth's gravity well defines
how I walk about

alternating falls
in a controlled manner down
into planet earth's
gravity well is the best
description of how I walk



is that a vortex
in your eyes or are you just
happy to see me



Took the time to write
About a constellation
Of beauties in sight
My mystery achievement
Blissful hours spent tonight

Spray largess around
Flourishing on every self
Still no trickle down

Excuse for being
proud of my humbleness and
character flaws with
wanton whimsy because of
so much salt rubbed in life's wound

3/25/2023

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June 18 2025

The Daily Dread

Once beyond the pale
Becomes the coin of the realm
Frenzied fiat force



fireflies recalled
chased around on summer nights
then they went away



the current regime
will fold spindle mutilate
to get it's own way

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Brewed

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June 17 2025

The Daily Dread

I love my wind chimes
I hate my neighbors wind chimes
My stuff and your shit


lift of life makes me
soar upon wings of desire
to swoop from above
down into beloved arms
that swaddle my poor sore soul


susurrus soar through
the corridors of my mind
where howls once echoed

I thought parks were made for loitering?

#duh

June 16 2025

The Daily Dread

Fatherly advice.
Go do something even if
it's wrong. Point taken.

James Joyce — 'Every bond is a bond to sorrow.'

A pinch of this a
dash of that plus a skosh of
whatever. Netflix.


opaque to many
to just as many it's clear
the rest pay no mind



primordial soup
a little dab'll do ya
greasy kid stuff spark



Pinch both sides of path
Primordial Sun Flower
It's clear. Us or them


June 15 2025

The Daily Dread

I keep my eyes shut
Reverse blink on occasion
Surprises abound

See who will blink first
Boon for big dry eye pharma
Call your broker now



He is a manufacturer of images
And is very much removed from the truth - Plato


Have care packages
A positive attitude
Hunting for goodwill


Rip it to shreds
Your intellectual pieces
Of hypothetical thesis

Since it's Father's Day
I'll be putting up a shelf
Crooked as I please

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