Taking what life throws at me one pitch at a time
Rhythm stick no more
Hit me with your haiku stick
That's how I roll now
Living on mountains
Foreign to me as desert
Shore dweller for life
test the tensile strength
of a spring that will become
a long hot summer
Oh Joy, I have an incoming call from scam likely.
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
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.
Sometimes it's just kind
To not bother to rewind
Random access life
found out it's okay
to pack bear spray when I tour
national treasures
back to the snake oil
no hand washing, germs, or cures
bad humours abound
if you were of troubled mind
it was strait in the jacket
Mother was forty.
Father was fifty when I
was born. The caboose.
He worked on railroad.
All the livelong day. Math says
I was his present.
Gift given on his
fiftieth birthday. That was
my moms family joke.
Siblings said I was
left on doorstep by gypsies.
Children seen. Not heard.
Not the center of
anyone's universe then
Except for grandma
Mother went to work
At factory down the street
Never felt neglect
Nor did I feel poor
Hungarian grandmother
watched over me well.
Six of us lived in
Two bedroom home. One bathroom
One tub. No shower.
Time dragged at young age
Yet house cleared out soon enough
Siblings move on out.
Leaving me alone
Youngest still fifty years on
Still not seen or heard
Reductionist sweep
Objects are objectionable
Disturb resting dust
poised on the tip of
sparrow beak berry resigns
to skin break juice fateLike a splinter under a fingernail
The news covers what people say
I watch to see what public figures do
More often it is what they don't do
Usually it's what they said they'd do
Unfortunately some times they do do
What they said and now we seen
What they done
It ain't purty
words splinter into
bytes then spew into the maw
of quantum a.i.
Due to budget cuts
no clamp. Learn to bleed slower
or you'll just bleed out.
As the solstice nears
Defrosted winter grove weeps
Hydrangea blooms
a sunbeam razor
the right tool for the right job
would have been better
than a chainsaw, but got merged
under by corporate raiders
LOMBRD
loads of money but right dicks
Susie Dent - Countdown
"Reflective morality
A cruel action will be repaid with cruelty
A kind one with kindness"
The Ministry of Time
Kailiane Bradley
The world is as it always has been
The perfect blend of awful and wonderful.
Waiting for that final straw
That breaks the camels back
Is just like waiting for Godot
transparency for
some means swatting every fly
on the wall to quash
Every clueless sap
Taken in by con artists
Saps our common strength
Elon Musk's actions embody the most heinous class warfare examples possible.
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