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 »

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 »

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 »

 

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 »

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 »

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

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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 »

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

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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  

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

In The Kithchen

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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Cedric gave me some stuff the other day.

 

 

 

 Whaddya think? Read full post »