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An empty ramp between two embankment walls

June 7 2025

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The Daily Dread

Yesterday

Bees fueled by pollen
Transform nectar to honey
Oatmeal sweetener 



more a rictus grin
than a smile when Congress makes
laws they do not read



Better to transcend.
A cherished life of chaos
Than to rewind it


popping p's
with each rant pant
thick mike screen
couldn't stop
each pent up pop
from booming
out the loud speaker
after a pint or three
went to the river
to take a punt 
to a temp pont
to get across for
elocution lessons




Went out for a pint
Back to mine for a nice pant
Sweet pent up release
With a satisfying punt
Over a pont to a dream


Swaddled in cheap grace 
Faux pious Senator shills
Her tooth fairy brand

AmbientDread

a friend knows when two
bee there when they need two bee
and when not two bee


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June 6 2025

Posted on by Pete

The Daily Dread

Yesterday

perpetuating
the mix up that messed us up 
most egregiously 



damn a waterfall
feed the patch work quilt of our
hungry power grid



adding to A.I.
mix misanthropic haiku
hoopla just for kicks


add misanthropic 
haiku hoopla hijinks to
a.i. mix for kicks



Zero sum algorithm 
Antisocial media
Syncopated holy hymn  
Full frenzied feedia
Up on the down beat
Upbeat down with resolve
Lost in the repeat
Off center reality dissolve
Freaky Friday show finality
Still looking for #sum-one
To wrap up with banality
While just having some fun


Seems when I uplift
Reality windshear sends
A tailspin tomb tome
Take the Cur

Divide

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Wedge

A simple machine
Used by early humans.

To do
Useful things for all

Still used today

To do
Useful things for some

Control. 
Divide. 
Conquer.

Sow distrust
Of those you should trust

Buy solutions
From those you shouldn't

Just keep on buying
What they're selling

Then fight each other
Over leavings.

So people
Stay in their place.

So people
Know their place.

In the American scheme
Pizza the Hut

Or maybe I’ll just have another slice of the pie. I remember having long discussions with New Yorkers, I was working with, about pizza. Not about virtues, quality, or flavors; but about presentation. Many thin crust pizza around here are cut into squares, which incensed the New Yorker contingent, because they’re felt a pizza pie should be cut into wedges. They felt that it was the telos of a pie and not the logos of pie eating. Or some such nonsense. Keep in mind these were advertising pukes.

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RDP Wednesday: WEDGE

Every Step I Take

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Stream of Consciousness Saturday #SoCS
SoCS
🎼

Every time I bake
Every move I shake
Every step I make
Every walk I take
I'll be limping badly

🎶

Some decades better
Some decades later
Every painful patter
Every other step matter
I'll be limping badly

🎵

That's the walk I've walked
Forty five years now
Looking for the next place
To stream my consciousness

🎶

Goals

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RDP Friday! Aspiration!
As long as I inhale 
I shall continue to inspire

Inspiration

Hold on to the aspire
To soak in the 

Aspiration

Living with the knowledge
That my unreasonable 

Expectations
 
Have often led me 
Down the path 
Of irrational

Exuberance

As long as I can
Stay immune from efforts 
To yuck my yum
Until I expire 

Expiration 

On my last exhale

My current yearly aspiration is to write a ….

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University Clock tower obelisk

Miller Time

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The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS May 24, 2025

Oh, you mean that time. Not to be confused with this time, out of time, Miller Time, or Hammer Time. Not to mention Morris Day and The Time.

It was a different time

So excuse me while I take this time to do the ramble. I miss the arbitrary reckoning of big hand is here and the little hand is there; as opposed to the empiricism of the digital display. Or the solidity of everything happening everywhere all at once hypothesis. Times arrow. Time slip. How many times has this happened before. Déjà-vu all over. So many hypotheses, so little time. Or too much time? Time is what you make of it. If you spend that much time counting, or making time, it may leave too little time for anything else.

Do you remember the past?

Do you remember the future?

Forget it!

But there is always time for Pink. But which one is Pink this time.

Time for me to give my brain a time out.

Right On Time

P.S. as a child my mother would talk about punching out of work. I imagined a first fight everyday at the time clock to leave the factory. 🕓

Horseshoe

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Montrose Ave horseshoe jetty on the shore of Lake MIchigan

Taken from where the missile base once was but is now a bird sanctuary🐦‍⬛

Montrose trolley bus
Before the sun rises up
Fish off the jetty

Not any jetty
This was the Montrose horseshoe
Near the Nike base

Caught so many perch
Also some hefty salmon
But most times caught zip
RDP Wednesday: JETTY

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