a poem is a sermon
for Johnny Cash How many times must I repeat the same old tired line? How many times can this old heart be broken and be fine? It doesn’t take a genius to opine the odds are bound to take a sharp decline. How many times must substance take a backseat behind style? How many times […]
Baby’s got a hole in her shoe Tells me she’s not sure what to do All her watercolors have turned to blue Said she wanted a choice, but now there’s nothing left to choose Tells me that her well’s about to run dry Got no more tears left her to cry Baby’s got a lot […]
What price paid by a pawn who makes, if merely by sheer luck or chance, its way through fields strewn by mistakes in focused, single step advance to the far end of what it knows, where all the trappings of a pawn must be forgotten, and the clothes befit a king must be put on? […]
His speech was almost poetry; I say almost, because to claim such subtle acts of sophistry as conscious art is to enflame the ire of critics, who exist with their sole purpose to decry encroachment on their world as lies, and play the constant pessimist. The world’s not ready, they proclaim, for such a mix […]
Do you really want theocracy, to thin or blur the line between what makes us get along, and what God had in mind? That means you’ll have to tell the truth, and never get divorced; make no income from interest (that’s usury, of course); respect your elders, even when they say you’re full of shit; […]
Such times are these that rich men gloat to turn great woods to creosote and laugh to see the world take note as style takes substance by the throat. Such times are these that poor men work their fingers fleshless for these jerks who waiting in the shadows lurk to claim as theirs both purse […]
Among the movies recommended by my daughter for weekend and early week viewing: Napoleon Dynamite and The Butterfly Effect. About ND, I will say this: my daughter thought it was highly amusing. But then again, the beautiful and popular people in high school always think the lives of nerds, geeks, dorks and other assorted social […]