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

July 18 2025

The Daily Dread

passions purple pulse
wraps me in wisteria's
woody twining vines



Now there is my view
Then of course there is your view
When will the twain meet



Biscuit Hammer went
down deep into the salt mine
with no cool off time ⚒️



Phrazez that Payzez

Livin' la Vida Asymptomatic 🕺🏻

When AI eyes are smiling
Your job is on the line

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July 17 2025

The Daily Dread

off in the distance
what seemed to be the glimmer
of fireworks was
instead the unleashed fury
of hunter killer wrath drones



stopping for green lights
built for comfort not for speed
with nineteen eighties
ultra cool blue on the side
extra mellow fellow plate



willing to assist
teetering on tenterhooks
with those delicate
behind the back hooks and eyes
to receive my special treat


July 16 2025

The Daily Dread

Future blends with past
Appreciate the blurring
Moment by moment

grounded our vessel
on a shopping mall reef of
excess consumption


price of admission
cost to survive belies the
myth of innocence


morning stare greeting
when I awoke you were there
turned into a glare



starts with tobacco
then weed, banana, eggplant
up in smoke blank stare



Quit when I told self
No need to inhale smoke
From ignited leaves


well placed tourniquet
may staunch national bleeding
but an infusion
of decency will refill
depleted levels of pride

A very empty parking lot outside a very empty shopping mall

Desanguination

A.I. image generated from tanka text of archaic physicians gathered around a distressed patient


July 15 2025

The Daily Dread

schadenfreude days
current leadership takes time
to throw our nation
under the grinding wheels
on the bus of history


wriggling about in
homemade wormhole forever
forgot the timer



Civilizations
That hibernate in the sand
Tell tales we should heed


Reliving adventures with biscuit
Geezer and Geezerette joy 😂

Objet de Aggregate

July 13 2025

The Daily Dread

Myth creates the caste
Idolatry glorifies
Selfish behavior
Over good for the many
With fictions in media


pine for the oak grove
harrow the yarrow hero
the marrow of myth


thought if I combine
this with that I'd get something

This is what I want
So I combine this with that
This is what I got


July 12 2025

The Daily Dread

Tesla's little deviant
Syncopation psychopath
Wishing to be relevant
Gains wannabe sovereign's wrath
Sycophants all in a row
Play red rover red rover
Send those that wish to not know
On their bellies on over
Two reptilian factions
Plotting their next reactions





Spend time to arrange
Things I want to be just so
Stay flexible though




when the day is done
alone in our own abode
languid uncover



Phrazez that Payzez

Build the enemy you want
Where has all the karma gone

a sentient bean
am I and will keep being
one until I'm not

I spent a decade
As a deviant savant
May not be pretty
But it was consensual
Plus a whole lotta love fun


July 10 2025

The Daily Dread

We want the future we were promised
Not the future we deserve

There is not enough
Glade air freshener around
To make me not mind
The stench wafting out of the
White House these days in DC



Start as a skirmish
Becomes full on donnybrook
Then big bada boom



old friend on Facebook
reconnect was a gamble
then hit the jackpot