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Poetry Friday

INSOMNIA

But it’s really fear you want to talk about and cannot find the words so you jeer at yourself

you call yourself a coward you wake at 2 a.m. thinking failure, fool, unable to sleep, unable to sleep

buzzing away on your mattress with two pillows and a quilt, they call them comforters, [...]

Poetry Friday

NEVER GIVE ALL THE HEART

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.

O never give the heart outright, For [...]

Poetry Friday

SONNET 100

In night when colors all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light; The eye a watch to inward senses placed, Not seeing, yet still having powers of sight,

Gives vain alarums to the inward sense, Where fear stirred up with witty tyranny, Confounds all powers, and thorough self-offense, [...]

Summertime Blues

I hate summer. Yeah … I said it. I hate summer. Spring, winter and fall? Love them, but I can’t stand the heat of summer.

I’m pretty sure I’ve written somewhere in the past about how I seem to get seasonal affective disorder, but in reverse … I relish the winter, and always seem to [...]

America’s crisis worse than Japan?

America’s crisis in a historical context | Worse than Japan? | The Economist

THERE is one consolation for the depressing instability of finance. History offers a rich array of banking crises from which policymakers can draw lessons—and against which today’s rescue plans can be judged. According to an IMF database, there have been 124 “systemic” [...]

If I had a superpower …

Every once in awhile, I come across some sort of personality quiz that either asks what sort of superpower a person wishes they have, or by asking other questions, tells one what superpower they have.

Except none of them are really all that accurate, at least not when it comes to my own wished-for superpower.

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Quote of the Day

Kind of wish I had received this before posting recent reactionary blog posts … but will be something to keep in mind going forward.

THE POWER OF AN AUTUMN LEAF

In working with the setting sun or confused world, the attitude of the warrior is like an autumn leaf floating down a river. It doesn’t [...]

Video Poetry (G.I. Edition)

STREET DOGS – BACK TO THE WORLD

I got to go back to the world Back to my girl Back to my family and kids Have to go and see my home again Don’t want my life to end Before my time is due And the kids are big

Just got the postal package [...]

Choices

A friend of mine told me today that “Confidence is sexy. Self-deprecation is not. Choose sexy.”

Life is about making choices … some are easy; but most are not.

That’s been my dilemma for most of my life … what choice to make. Most of the time, I get so paralyzed with fear that [...]

Video Poetry (Stupid Edition)

ALKALINE TRIO – STUPID KID

There are things that used to make me smile One of them was you for just a little while You left me for dead so far away I replaced you with fear and shame You’ll be happy on the day I die

There are things that used to make [...]