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Not So Simple: heroic sonnet
How simple it seems to be born again: to never reach the stage of an adult, but each time that you feel a growing pain, to plead no contest and avoid the fault, accepting being only just a child with … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, adulthood, childhood, heroic sonnet, heroic stanza, poetic forms, redemption, responsibility, Sicilian octave, Sicilian quatrain
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Absolvo-Meal: an advertising jingle
Your hair is gray and thinning, Jack! Your prime is gone and won’t come back. The cure for everything you lack? Absolvo-Meal, the perfect snack! Young whippersnappers run the show, and no one cares how much you know. When your … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged absolution, advertising, Burma-Shave, NaPoWriMo, parody, religion, responsibility, selfishness
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It’s Our Fault
If the world was better in your youth, and kids had much more sense; if things once great have gone to shit, and nothing makes much sense, you only have yourself to blame: your parenting did this. How damned convenient … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged blame, daily poems, education, leading by example, NaPoWriMo, nostalgia, parenting, responsibility
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This is Bliss
I don’t know what you know, I only know what I’ve been told; I don’t know just when this thing started, I only know it’s getting old. I don’t know where we’re going (barely remember where we’ve been), but I … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalpyse, knowledge, lyrics, relationships, responsibility, sacred cows
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How to Save the World
One of the blogs I read pretty regularly is Dave Pollard’s How to Save the World. Occasionally, something he writes strikes a particularly resonant chord with me — like his February 4th gem A Miniature Truth: Becoming Authentically Yourself. I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged change, Dave Pollard, evolution, How to Save the World, responsibility, revolution
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Crime and Punishment
I would admit a lesser crime if only it were worth my while; but in these days when wish makes fact the simple notoriety of having lived will sentence me. There is no justice in the world when thought alone … Continue reading