As the last day of poetry month arrived I was reading all the disturbing Arizona immigration garbage when I was momentarily distracted by something that, even in my relatively short life, I would never have imagined I’d be reading. An article about Hugo Chavez exhorting Fidel Castro and Evo Morales …
Poison Politics
It’s bad enough having McCain support the racist policy that Arizona proposed, but now he wants to stick his face into D.C. gun laws? Someone needs to untie the ostentatious little knot that Senator McCain’s panties are stuck in. We are in a good political climate to grandstand about in, …
The Spoken Word
In 2007, wow three years ago, I wrote two poems for national poetry month and posted them in a blog post titled National Poetry Month — Write a Poem, Read a Poem. Here is the favorite. The Spoken Word the written word is many things it makes me mad invokes feeling to …
A Poetic Tribute or Two
As poetry month closes, I see many of you have done a poetic tribute or two, and good for you. You, suffering so well through my repeats, have allowed me to catch up on my drinking work, get ahead, almost finish even…. so yeah you. Concerned about destiny, space, time, …
Oh Mercy Mercy Me
Oh, things ain’t what they used to be From the Pixies Monkey Gone To Heaven, Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi, and World Party’s Ship of Fools, to Neil Young’s Vampire Blues, Cat Stevens Where Do the Children Play, and Tracy Chapman’s, Rape of the World, there is a veritable concert …
On The Radio, OH, OH, OH, Public Radio
Dear Public Radio, Periodically you perturb me. This morning, while driving through horrendous beltway traffic in the rain, as I was listening to your moderators discuss various blood pressure raising issues — in their usual low key bordering on indifferent manner — I was reminded of my mother calming me as …
