MY RECENT POSTS
- Trusty Dusty
September 07, 2010 06:33AM - Right turn, Earl!
September 02, 2010 09:00AM - Schools: Some Solutions
August 31, 2010 10:46AM - Whisper Me Your Secret
August 28, 2010 02:21PM - Why We Fight
August 27, 2010 11:52AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “IC, I thought it would
be easier to explain a comment
to a
poem with a poem.
Glad…”
7:09AM - “Dark clouds arising sure
sign of rain put your old
grey
bonnet on and sweep
that…”
5:55AM - “I jury rigged (or
jerry rigged) a new
mount...
Me, I
would have Jim-Joe-Willie'd
t…”
September 05, 2010 11:03PM - “I'd like to put my
psycho
tic whisper into the mix
for your perusal along
with
the…”
September 04, 2010 11:14PM - “Thank yew Url.”
September 03, 2010 10:18AM
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Trusty Dusty
Depression is like the dust in the air, invisible
Until seen suspended in a sunbeam serene, floating
Waiting and wafting ever eager to coat the psyche, relentless
Immune to all your polishing and good intentions, thinly
Coating your surfaces and filming your diligence, thickly
Then geometric th… Read full post »
Right turn, Earl!
I hope Hurricane Earl turns on a dime and moves off in a north easterly direction and only grazes the Outer Banks as predicted. But as John C. McGinley said to Tom Berenger in Platoon, 'Bob, I got a bad feeling on this one, all right? I mean I got a… Read full post »
Schools: Some Solutions
While reading the CNN online article about the best solutions for our ailing education system offered up by the nation's top teachers I was not encouraged.
For the most part it was the same old bleating panoply that is always put out by the education system. A wish… Read full post »
Whisper Me Your Secret
J.R. my pretty boy with tresses so curly and fair
Such a comely face so handsome framed by that hair
And eyes so blue, so piercing blue, blue as the sky
Who whispered me what he had done but not why.
J.R. my pretty boy your tongue knows no guile
Come sit with me and… Read full post »
Why We Fight
In 1973 the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Egypt, Algeria, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Libya and Bahrain initiated an oil embargo against the United States in response to two events: Nixon withdrawing the US from the Bretton Woo… Read full post »
Interface
In the deep the calm surrounds you
While your body fights on for life
One by one your cares flee from you
Like leaves drifting on a breeze
A warmth starts from within you
And flows from out your chest
It is the ghost you must now part with… Read full post »
Haunting Beauty, Weeping Jesus
I read a sentence today from Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow today that brought me up short.
"The tracks in the slush have turned to pearl, mellow pearl." Read full post »
Hot Night in August
Friday the thirteenth it's a hot night in August
Look in the sky and see the boys
With the moon and star upon their heads
Or maybe even a glimpse of one of Perseids'
Falling shining ones and make a wish
Hoping it comes true while cooler heads
Prevail until… Read full post »
French Wit (Triolet)
French Wit
Only the French would invent the triolet
A device spawned from their supposed wit
Whereby the simple thought must twist in every way
Only the French would invent the triolet
A smug affront to saying what you meant to say
Until your meaning twisting brands you the twit
Only t… Read full post »
A Response to 'A Different Take'
I thought I recognized that face from somewhere. Thank you Alan for responding to my post in this manner (A Different Take on Government Jobs). It is good that we get on the ground and duke it out with our ideas. The government intervention via stimulus spending I proposed with my… Read full post »
A Jobs Solution
This is a repost of an essay I wrote a while back that got virtually no traction. Reading Steve Klingman's It Was a Jobs Bubble Too referencing Dave Stockman's excellent Four Defamations of the Apocalypse has pushed me to post this again in the hopes of someone seriously considering a solution… Read full post »
Robert Gates' Missing NY Times Editorial
I read an interesting editorial on the NYTimes Opinion page yesterday written by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates which in my view, summed up the travesty of the Wikileak operation in the most succinct and comprehensive manner I've seen to date. Oddly enough, I can't seem to find any mention of… Read full post »
Midnight Serenade - Pt. 2
Shangrila
It was nearing nine o'clock when Frank finished his puzzle and put
the Sunday Post out on the table for the inmates to read come
Monday. The basement was nearly empty as he made his way across it
toward the showers. Nine o'clock and it would be locked up and… Read full post »
Midnight Serenade - Pt. 1
Frank looked over at Lacy seated at the dim lit table as he entered the room and just shook his head as he walked by. Lacy looked up momentarily, long enough to make eye contact and then went back to shoveling pintos into his mouth by the tablespoonful and…




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