a poem is a sermon
If there is a distant shore strewn far across the vast and endless sea from the righteous land where the fascist and power mad make their camps and hawk their wares, that is where you’ll find I’ve pitched my tent. On the map, you may think it always on your left. And you may be […]
Watch along the borderlines, out where the edges meet and mix their colors in the sand that stretches down the beach, not knowing of a start or end or which belongs to which, whose property is over there or just who owns what ditch. Watch along the borderlines that meet in shades of gray and […]
It doesn’t matter anymore Who’s right or wrong, who’s keeping score. Whatever we were looking for, you’re set on walking out the door It doesn’t matter what I say You wouldn’t listen anyway It’s black and white, no shades of gray, So you’ve decided not to stay What good we had has come and gone; […]
I’ve been listening today to a lot of early Merle Haggard. He’s always been one of my biggest influences, particularly as a songwriter — although as a singer, particularly his work in the sixties, there was NOBODY as fluid or versatile, not even Elvis, as far as I’m concerned, and for me that’s saying a […]
The thread that fasts the edges of the fabric to link the warp and woof which forms our life is tenuous, at best – so thin and fragile. This tapestry we take so much for granted, whose boundaries extend to memory’s end, is but a million of these strands and slivers. That it remains a […]
for Hunter S. Thompson A life in isolation breeds its own brand of malaise, that the respected classes just ignore and seek instead on worthless causes to heap shame or praise, with their good sense, naming such moods a bore. The paranoia of the underdog they call a sham, not worthy of their time, a […]
There is something in a family that doesn’t like a wall inside the boundary it constructs, its face against the world, that thin veneer of solidarity presented to conceal or pander to the social mores ranking its esteem. Behind the bastions of normalcy, its main concern is making sure the single units pretend to conform; […]