July 21 2025

The Daily Dread

well past midsomer 
hope against hope our wanton
wanderings recur



Child's happy place
Cotton candy frolic feast
Full of pinks and blues

Akin to adults
Ether frolics but with sweets
Not so different


Tails from Florida
Of long lived porpoises
And chatty Mynah birds
He was lost
Until he found
His special purpose
Was transporting Mynahs
Across state lines
For immortal porpoises
So he went into politics



7/21/2024

Sand in the gears gumming up the works
all part of a Russian nesting doll scam
to keep us at each other's throats

Russian nesting doll
scams throwing sand in the works to
foist oligarch rule

glad I tuned out of
a week of blowing smoke and
pounding sand up our...

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July 20 2025

The Daily Dread

No mistranslations 
No cultural biases
Pure #spiritual sea



yesterday's brain squall
caused my haiku to wash up
on the wrong hashtag



snow drift of old news
blows under my cabin door
needs a tighter seal


today is just one
more example of humans
humaning because
we are great big bundles of
our cognitive dissonance

catching fish the goal
fishing's purpose has a more
existential vibe

A.I. image of person reading a newspaper as it burns