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Poetry Friday

THIS WAS ONCE A LOVE POEM

This was once a love poem, before its haunches thickened, its breath grew short, before it found itself sitting, perplexed and a little embarrassed, on the fender of a parked car, while many people passed by without turning their heads.

It remembers itself dressing as if for a [...]

Poetry Friday

THE OLD YEAR

The Old Year’s gone away      To nothingness and night: We cannot find him all the day      Nor hear him in the night: He left no footstep, mark or place      In either shade or sun: The last year he’d a neighbour’s face,      In this he’s known by none.

All [...]

Poetry Friday

SUMMER SONG

Wanderer moon smiling a faintly ironical smile at this brilliant, dew-moistened summer morning,— a detached sleepily indifferent smile, a wanderer’s smile,— if I should buy a shirt your color and put on a necktie sky-blue where would they carry me?

  — William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963), American poet and inspiration to many [...]

Poetry Friday

COLD MORNING

Through an accidental crack in the curtain I can see the eight o’clock light change from charcoal to a faint gassy blue, inventing things

in the morning that has a thick skin of ice on it as the water tank has, so nothing flows, all is bone, telling its tale of how hard [...]

Video Poetry (Life Edition)

BRIGHT EYES – FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE

This is the first day of my life Swear I was born right in the doorway I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed They’re spreading blankets on the beach

Yours was the first face that I saw I think I was blind before I [...]

Poetry Friday

COMING TO THE MORNING

You make me remember all of the elements the sea remembering all of its waves

in each of the waves there was always a sky made of water and an eye that looked once

there was the shape of one mountain and a blood kinship with rain

and the air for [...]

Video Poetry (Sleepy Edition)

TIM ARMSTRONG – WAKE UP

(Are you ready for this?)

Yeah

Wake up You son of a bitch I wanna know who you’re with and Why do you roll in and out At like six in the morning?

I say Wake up My love of mine Why do you spend your time With these [...]

The Basement Tapes

I spent far too much time hanging out in basements this weekend, and am completely exhausted.

First, on Saturday, one of the storage rooms in the basement of my building flooded; since my condo association is currently without a management/maintenance company, that means that it was up to the board members to clean up the [...]

Okay, yeah …

… so lifestyle changes? Yeah, they suck. Hard. Big hairy donkey ear hard. I was going to say donkey dick, but you know, that’s just too damned much alliteration, and I have readers who are sensitive about profanity, so I try to keep it to a minimum.

I’m trying to lose a little weight … [...]

Heresy, or prophesy?

Sometimes being Big Ring is knowing when NOT to ride in the big ring …

The way my legs feel right now, I’m certainly glad I never used any gear bigger than the 39×14, and even that only briefly; mostly 39×15 or 39×16.

Hopefully, they’ll be less sore and twitchy in the morning so I [...]