Monday, October 28, 2019

VANITY FAIR’s Kenzie Bryant on Donald Trump booed at the World Series

Regardless of whether you care to argue that it was right to “boo” a man best known for taking children from their families to teach them a lesson, running up the national debt, cheerleading violence against the press and his political rivals, and leaving America’s allies out to dry, we can marvel at this new face. Trump appears pathetically, awfully pitiable here. For those few seconds, while he stands there trying not to look at anyone, he was fully, purely himself without all the preening excess and pretend swagger, a guy who doesn’t work toward anything except approval.
Kenzie Bryant, from the VANITY FAIR article “All that booing revealed the true face of Donald Trump.”

Monday, October 21, 2019

New poem: BLAND DANCE

doing my bland dance
pulling up my pants
not offending foreign countries
accepting their definition of speech

doing my bland dance
giving liars an equal chance
not willing to issue corrections
too much election money at risk

doing my bland dance
not going to take a stance
the world crumbles, I keep quiet
as my front door is smashed open

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Guessing the 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

Out of this list, predicting at least six will be inducted:
Whitney Houston
Nine Inch Nails
Soundgarden
Pat Benatar
Depeche Mode
Todd Rundgren
Notorious B.I.G.


Friday, October 11, 2019

I give up, Part 2

I was inspired to give up writing/publishing poetry books when someone on Facebook told me “it’s a harsh world, print fewer copies” when they’re now just print-on-demand or e-books. After that response (which the person genuinely thought was well-intentioned), I decided “enough”

Thursday, October 10, 2019

I give up.

HOW TO TELL TIME, my first chapbook of entirely new/recent poems since 2015, is now my final one.

Thanks to those who bought copies of my earlier books/chapbooks at readings and/or online.

I appreciate the support you gave me over the last two decades.