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- Today, 9:19 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Back to Death Valley
- Replies: 2
- Views: 41
Re: Back to Death Valley
old frontier ghosts watching. wild burros standing dead still, frozen on a dry lake shimmer, no longer ridden by jackass miners. old mining canyons, gulches, cabin ruins, old timers all gone, slow digs replaced by brute power, big brute machines mauling hillsides. ah, but you can't go back, can't go...
Re: Forever
That's it. The world is so much bigger. Then the universe hits you, the infinitely big and infinitely small
- May 16th, 2024, 2:01 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Back to Death Valley
- Replies: 2
- Views: 41
Back to Death Valley
When I go back to Death Valley on the LA side, even a hundred miles out, the ghosts speak louder each time; I hear the living dead earth rattling along faults, lost gold legends and haunted mineshafts. Manson looking for a door to the underworld. Sorcerers and shamans onto something new. Hippies on ...
- April 22nd, 2024, 2:52 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Parable of the Bigger Gun
- Replies: 2
- Views: 417
Re: Parable of the Bigger Gun
The moment it sunk in that my Church tied faith to politics, war and destruction, it was dead to me. Decades ago. Never been back.
- April 16th, 2024, 2:14 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Parable of the Bigger Gun
- Replies: 2
- Views: 417
Parable of the Bigger Gun
I grew up in that era, and the
Church tried to tie it to Jesus,
all those murderous weapons.
Church tried to tie it to Jesus,
all those murderous weapons.
- March 30th, 2024, 9:06 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Superheroes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 445
Re: Superheroes
Yes, infinity laughs at us.
And the power of simple
basic kindness and respect.
No one gets that lately.
And the power of simple
basic kindness and respect.
No one gets that lately.
- March 28th, 2024, 4:18 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Illegal Drugs
- Replies: 4
- Views: 613
Re: Illegal Drugs
They gave us endless
tribal War for centuries
as an illegal drug, so yeah,
about time someone asked
a few damn questions, not
the easy, packaged ones.
tribal War for centuries
as an illegal drug, so yeah,
about time someone asked
a few damn questions, not
the easy, packaged ones.
- March 21st, 2024, 1:53 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Now is cool
- Replies: 2
- Views: 515
Re: Now is cool
Tis true.
- March 18th, 2024, 6:35 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: I Think We're All Pretty Good People
- Replies: 5
- Views: 671
Re: I Think We're All Pretty Good People
Yes, it's tragic. No words can adequately express my revulsion to that whole situation and its long, long ugly history. As for my comment, I meant would-be combatants. I remember one time, Dad said something like "What if they tried to start a war and nobody showed up?" It's almost a ridiculous noti...
- March 18th, 2024, 1:05 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: I Think We're All Pretty Good People
- Replies: 5
- Views: 671
Re: I Think We're All Pretty Good People
The thing about war,
you have to acknowledge
there is a war in the first place.
What if we just don't?
you have to acknowledge
there is a war in the first place.
What if we just don't?
- March 15th, 2024, 2:49 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: I Think We're All Pretty Good People
- Replies: 5
- Views: 671
Re: I Think We're All Pretty Good People
I hear you, Doreen. We're swamped with religious and "cultural" dick-waving. We have open talk by "leaders" of nuclear warfare. So it wasn't just a nightmare I woke up from decades ago when what was left of my optimism for "us" peaked somewhere in the late nineties, like HST's wave, the one he wrote...
- March 15th, 2024, 2:38 pm
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: I'm sure his grave is restless
- Replies: 3
- Views: 554
Re: I'm sure his grave is restless
The worst part is, we're doing it to ourselves.
We are buying the snake oil con.
Talk about an own goal in our elimination match in the Big Soccer Tournament of the Coming Apocalypse.
I keep wanting to tell myself it won't be, or couldn't be, as bad as I imagine it will get.
We are buying the snake oil con.
Talk about an own goal in our elimination match in the Big Soccer Tournament of the Coming Apocalypse.
I keep wanting to tell myself it won't be, or couldn't be, as bad as I imagine it will get.
- March 13th, 2024, 1:54 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: I Think We're All Pretty Good People
- Replies: 5
- Views: 671
I Think We're All Pretty Good People
Politics and war
is just trying to ruin us.
is just trying to ruin us.
- February 28th, 2024, 2:18 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: bring on the spectacle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 605
Re: bring on the spectacle
"Outrage porn."
Pretty much describes it. Well done.
Everything is porn. I knew it would come to this. We have everything and nothing (very Zen) in the explosion of tech and everything and nothing and I suspected it would come to this sooner or later or maybe later or sooner.
Pretty much describes it. Well done.
Everything is porn. I knew it would come to this. We have everything and nothing (very Zen) in the explosion of tech and everything and nothing and I suspected it would come to this sooner or later or maybe later or sooner.
- February 25th, 2024, 7:21 am
- Forum: Poetry
- Topic: Snow Moon Rising
- Replies: 1
- Views: 642
Re: Snow Moon Rising
Not sure why.
What's it matter?
Random greed,
brute power.
Tender folds.
Earth watches
the show.
What's it matter?
Random greed,
brute power.
Tender folds.
Earth watches
the show.