Sept 9 2025

Posted on September 10, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



how can one person
embody all the vile things
found in one nation



A plain brown wrapper 
Sent via the Post Office
Retro Only Fans



This years harvest time
May be strictly DIY
So happy pickin'



Flapping wings above
The spector of a sparrow 
Now casts doubt about 
A harvest of happiness 
When hope had a common goal



Do people with no intelligence
Lean on artificial intelligence 
To try and look smarter


It's artificial
So artifactual clone
Copy and pasting
Losing presupposed vigor
Of purported intellect

Sept 8 2025

Posted on September 9, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



Willow in the wind
Flowing dance to nature's call
Shameless shimmy shake 



Horrid little thing
Squeezed out of its hardened shell
I know how to fix
Butter garlic and some bread
Special plate with little pits



Only time will tell
If only I could tell time
Mind your own business



when selling power
meets stern buying resistance 
art of the squeal 



Some very smart people
Believe some very dumb things

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Sept 7 2025

Posted on September 8, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



Doorway cracks open
Rusty hinges creak and groan
Wait! I brought lube. [SLAM]



High bathroom window
Climb in only to receive
Terlet foot plunge prize


read it in a book
heart is a lonely hunter
so it must be true



Sardine loves packed house
Lonely little fishy when
solo in a tin

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Sept 6 2025

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



Occupied city
Don't trip the light fantastic
Just duck and cover

trip over my own
words only to land flat on 
the page once again



Once we had a chance
But the entitled want it back
So back to serfdom we go
They now have rowboats
To fight their arbitrage wars



the deathly pall of
crimson chill spreads over once
free and happy folks



A chill in the air
A nip in the bud of life
A change's a comin'



Spicy absolutism 
A bad case of blazer raid throat


Two little boys scream
Menaced by a bumble bee
Under Gary's porch

Eventually
Gary's mom comes out to see
Shooed away the bee

Shakes her head at us
With great disdain for the boys
Such little babies

Sept 5 2025

Posted on September 6, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



two or more voices
offend aural dissonance
in sweet harmony


Kind of hard to tell
The genuine article

finally found it
the genuine article
Foaming Pleroma
for the closest shave ever
with Great Archon's straight razor



Nature's harmony 

From the grill chamber 
Song of the Abalone
Kelp forest rock screams

Sept 4 2025

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



some barely conscious 
of IRL surroundings
subsumed all day while
partaking of violent games
ingesting haughty delights



Open eyes receive
Open ears and minds absorb
Harvest stimuli


I met the new moon
Just the same as the old moon
Shadow creep display 


In new moon dreaming
I harvest my conscious thoughts
Til sunrise bird song



Phrazez that Payzez 

Anguished product of my own individuation. 
Via Very Bad Wizards 
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher

Sept 3 2025

Posted on September 4, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



Sometimes 
I listen to audio books
To go to sleep
Or back to sleep
Last night it was 
The Rig Veda 

Commenced to dream 
Of an Indian man
Following me around 
While I did some editing
Getting frustrated 
At the things 
He was spouting 
In my ear 

Received wisdom 
Or irritation 

Be the reading. 

09/03/2024

No search stork. No maths
Raw dogging Wordle daily
Consonants and vowels



Best licks behind me
Riff needs a resolution
Gliss home with grace notes

 


Small mind lockstep marching
Foolish incontinence 
Consistently choked down
Hobgoblins to pursue
Shoveled down open gobs
Implementing cruel tools
Indecent abattoir
Foul administration 
Arbitrary abuse
Of once precious power



Swirl, the haiku stork
Best stir for morning mind drops
arbitrary prompts

Sept 2 2025

Posted on September 3, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



con swindle then sue
abuse evade elude laws
bunko artists all



Corrupt resource fork
A.I. nurse told the patient 
We'll need to reboot



Low expectations 
The spice that keeps me patient 
Crushed joie de vivre



the slinging of the
spring mud next year'll be nothing
next to autumn slime

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Sept 1 2025

Posted on September 2, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



don't you just hate it
when past becomes now too soon
leaves no future room



I committed too
soon to commitment in a
noncommittal way



Water and feed it
Dark money, fear, and hatred
Now you see what sprouts

 

What drives a life force 
Once on the trail of the snail
All other things pale 



it was in the past
when snail sprouts wings to take flight 
to future too soon

Aug 31 2025

Posted on September 1, 2025 by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday



will spending my life
on the mend send a different 
end around the bend



economic mist
what markup to charge thirsty
folks for fresh water



It always seems that
No matter how hard I yearn
Affection is spurned 



The difference between 
To darn or to mend my socks
Yearn for an answer