This is a response to an open call by Chuck Stetson.  See his challenge here:

http://open.salon.com/blog/mean_mr_mustard/2009/11/18/open_call_itune_or_any_source_of_music_poetry

Just for fun.  No pressure

Thanks to Crosby, Stills and Nash, Country Joe Mcdonald, Poi… Read full post »

My lovely, brilliant, kind-hearted wife has a reputation for bringing home strays.  That’s how I came to be there in the first place.  This is an attribute that I love about her.  We have given homes, both temporary and permanent, to a veritable menagerie of cats, d… Read full post »

Over the last couple of days here on OS, two posts in particular have caught my eye and the eye of many, many of you.  They were the post by Robin Sneed about having to spend two weeks in jail over a traffic citation and Trig Plain’s post about his neighbor/… Read full post »

Mad Typist, where are you????  

I’ve been waiting, less than patiently, for three weeks now for you regular NFL re-caps. Nothing.  Thinking I’ve just somehow missed them, I go directly to your blog.  Still nothing. 

 What’s up with that? 

Th… Read full post »

                  As Alice's glass

              To this Haiku from my last

  … Read full post »

As a young child, you thought your elders knew everything.             

As a teenager, you thought you knew everything.             &nbs… Read full post »

On Sept 3, 2009, at a special meeting of the City of China, TX City Council, Mayor William (Butch) Sanders resigned his post.  This was a shocking development to me.  It was more shocking to me than to the other council members because a few months ago, I was… Read full post »

I love language.  Not so much the mechanics of it and the rules thereby, (That last statement is probably readily apparent to many of you) but rather the way people twist and turn it in what I find rather humorous ways. 

As a much younger man,… Read full post »

I attended a town hall meeting last night in Beaumont Texas.  The event was sponsored by the same folks who sponsored the, so-called, tax opposition tea parties in this area. While the event was billed as “non-partisan,” the featured speaker was U.S. House Rep., Re… Read full post »

Wake the fuck up!! 

It’s time for you to do your part and help trash the economy! 

That’s right, it’s your damned patriotic duty!!! 

Hell, it’s your human duty. 

You’re killing America!  You’re killing the world!… Read full post »

My mouth taste like rotting citrus

squirming against my own angst

Worms from my brain moving under my scalp

Somehow this cannot be justice

Like Sinterklaas encumbered by width

I feel squeezed as if wedged in a chimney

This poem chases me as a wolf

I haven’t been… Read full post »

One of the main conservative talking points regarding control of health insurance costs has to do with tort reform.  In order to reduce the cost of medical care, they say, we must limit frivolous lawsuits and limit the amount of the awards to victims when the lawsuits turn out… Read full post »

I have changed my avatar for you

For I am emptied

For I am the exoskeleton

Of a dead japanese beetle

No longer of any consequence 

The northern sky is starless

The geese have all flown for the last time

The Northern Flicker bolts from my… Read full post »

                        She’s formed of starlight 

      &nb… Read full post »

       There once was a time

       Every dream was dreamable

       Every poem a kiss

      Summer now blazing

      Lon… Read full post »

A few months ago, a young dog “followed” my son home.  She was rambunctious and chewed stuff, but she was sweet and soon won our hearts.  Nevertheless, I did the right thing and put a sign up on the bulletin board at the local mercantile stati… Read full post »

She is a goddess

In both name and personna, she is theophany 

She is the moon and stars

Celestial 

She is the sea

Her tiffany skirt, jouncing waves 

She is the sun

Breaking across the hazy mountain’s breasts 

She is snow

Ethereal and… Read full post »

Bloodied and alone   

Reading your words, yet again

They are not helping

Your fragrance lingers

Your whispers still sing to me

Your riddles still tease

Hazy images

Photos of what might have been

and lavender lace

&n… Read full post »

As a wisp of smoke on an autumn breeze

As a snow goose call from above slate gray clouds

As a shadowy wraith one catches in the corner of an eye

As a summer rain shower passing quickly by; 

She was here for a while, wasn’t she? 

 … Read full post »

In her  post today, Hells Bells dared us to write a Sestina.  I can't resist a dare (so damned competitive)

So here ya go, Hells.  Read it and weep

Of the heart

Her heart never learns when attending to love

Seems ever to be… Read full post »

It doesn't really matter how I came to be associated with these people.  Suffice it to say that some of them are my friends.   Anyway, I was invited by them to a South East Texas tradition; the crawfish boil.

If you are unfamiliar with crawfish they are also call crawdaddy's, cray… Read full post »

Dont She Like Fine(Going Away).wma - Johnny Walker

VERSE 1

 I met her Saturday night in a crowded bar

Some ol’ boy pickin’ steel guitar

She gave me a wink that told me she wanted to play 

I thought her… Read full post »

                                             &n… Read full post »

The other day I wrote a nonsense poem about being bitten by a spider to which Scupper, whom I admire and respect a great deal, commented the following:

g-f-g-f-g-f-g-f
a-g-f-e--e-d

g-f-g-f-g-f-g-f
a-g-f-e-e-d-d

g-a-b-a-g-g-f
f-e-f-e-e-d-c

I took this as a challenge or perhaps it was a suggestion or p… Read full post »

I was bitten by a spider 

Right… Read full post »