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POEM: Retort #112

I suspect that if you don’t see someone as eccentric, perhaps living in a wondrous crucible brimming with contradictions, then you don’t really know someone. People, as inconvenient as they may be, are irreducibly wondrous creatures. I suspect that most … Continue reading

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POEM: On Acid

This poem is a playful, satirical takedown of the unromantic notion of sexual activity, particularly reproduction, as some Darwinian imperative. I am a romantic who believes that there is more than mere chemistry to human relationships and mating. On Acid … Continue reading

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POEM: Large Language Mottle — Yet An Other Ode to AI

One of the cutting edges of AI, artificial intelligence, is large language models that can veraciously consume massive amounts of writing in short order — more info than thousands of humans in a lifetime. However impressive this might be, my … Continue reading

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POEM: North Pole

This poem was inspired by my lack of sense of direction in a high rise, where both directions I looked seemed like south to me. Of course, the only place on earth where every direction you look south is the … Continue reading

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POEM: Dyslexic Write Wringer

Dyslexic Write Wringer In a whack and blight world Any dyslexic can tell you A right winger Is a white ringer Only as an adult did I realize that I am mildly dyslexic. I have to intentionally work every time … Continue reading

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POEM: Macaroni Art

Has it ever occurred to you That your life’s work is but Macaroni art Only then realizing That it is covering God’s refrigerator And how great that is This poem touches upon a number of themes: humility, self-confidence, perfectionism and … Continue reading

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Self-Made Trump Has A Fool For A Maker

In Trumpian fashion, fool of irony, I quote myself: “A self-made man has a fool for a maker.”  The man-child known as Donald Trump runs roughshod over the boundaries of lesser fools.  He fashions his fashion as the boss of … Continue reading

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POLITICAL POEM: The Bus of Times, The Worst of Times

His political career Hung in the balance Throw a certain number under the bus Or see bus production drop precipitously This short poem recognizes a brutal utilitarianism in politics, which is present at most any level.  Using people as means … Continue reading

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HAPPINESS: Hedonic Happiness Versus Meaningful Happiness

I have long been interested in happiness and happiness research.  I recently stumbled across one of the most fascinating scientific articles of any kind that I have read in recent years: Some Key Differences Between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life. … Continue reading

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POEM: Nobodies Prefect

Anarchists know Nobodies Prefect In a dyslexic god eat god whirled As upside Down With community As right side Up With lords of all sorts Anarchists no Aiming too pleas The raven us Nevermore All the wile Poor in the … Continue reading

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POEM: The Largesse Hope Passable

Its knot awe A bout winning Partisan bickering Aisle let go Out come The largesse hope Becoming passable This poem is about movement politics compared to electoral politics.  Electoral politics is defined by the ballot box.  The ballot box in … Continue reading

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POEM: The Curator

I am The curator Of your infinite beauty Privy to collections timeless And in real time Streaming glorious tributaries To the art of who you are This is a poem about the glorious privilege in close relationships of having unique … Continue reading

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POEM: Chains of Command

A juggernaut of freedom He proudly served As the weakest link In the chain of command And above Awe Due no harm This poem juxtaposes the contrasting notions of freedom achieved through tight, even militaristic, ventures versus embodying freedom through default … Continue reading

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POEM: Carrots and Sticks

He came from the sticks And had Little taste For carrots He wood Just as soon Beat you As raze the son Those Sunday mournings Long a go This poem is about the vicious cycles of violence passed on from … Continue reading

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POEM: Slow Mo’ Bettor Blues

Is it awe A gambol Sometimes you git Their faster In slow motion More rarefied Then a tortoise and its hair Relegated to children Of God Knowing nothing In the phase of fabled Head weigh Breeding like Rabbits Countering undeniable … Continue reading

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POEM: Love Making

I was mistaken All those years Those sweetest ours Thinking I was making love When in truth Love was making me This love poem, as most of my poems, can be read several ways.  Of course, the simplest reading is … Continue reading

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POEM: Corn Fed Politicians

We are surrounded By corn fed politicians Who don’t eat corn But slaughter the herd Fed only corn In a round a bout weigh In realty And capitol punishment Their hire power Contracts executioners To deal with every unwieldy beef … Continue reading

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POEM: Wanting Amor

It is never Enough I want amor! This very short poem, like most of my poems, can be read (at least) two ways.  The first line, It is never, can be read as one not getting love, declaring Enough, and … Continue reading

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Double Oh No: The Name’s Cadabra, Abra Cadabra

God’s Name is knot Abracadabra Too be unloosed Unwhirled As owed man Putting on Some kind Of spectacle Who’s genesis Giving No quarter To years Behind In a sense Out right hostility And udder a version Sow called Crater of … Continue reading

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POEM: Kindness 1.618 — Owed To The Goaled In Proportion

A parent In the relationship Between to be gotten The larger to the smaller The goaled in proportion Amidst just us Sum times christened The divine proportion And it doesn’t take A mathematical genus To divine its kind Never the … Continue reading

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