Archive for December, 2019

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We’re two days from the New Year I’m working on my poem My thoughts are constantly rhyming couplets The lights are on…but I’m not home

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Cleansing Breath

If you care enough to dive into the bowels of political fetidness, the colonoscopy-like probing would lead to a dismal prognosis…not just of today’s political sphincter but that of the lower GI of every governmental digestive tract since the first edict or proclamation or straw vote.  Just read a single…

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Despair

I have never thought of myself as a depressed person, which I consider a luck-of-the-draw bonus in a world so overwhelmed with nuanced layers of angst-ridden disability.  I’m a “Boomer”, (OK?), with a blurred religio-laic moral center who protested, draft-dodged, marched and always questioned authority but never the right and…

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Vamping

The connotation of “vamping” is, in most contexts, a positive one. For example, it’s a coveted asset for a musician to be able to “vamp” on the changes of a tune;  comedians, poets and attorneys who have the gift of cogent, extemporaneous verbiage, use it to amuse, delight and influence…

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