Poem: RECURRING DREAM MOTIFS 2021

lost shoes

lost suitcase

missing wallet

naked in public

taking a speedboat to a marina at night

staying for months in a hotel room

flying to London alone

worrying about being evicted

worrying that something’s missing

worrying that someone’s missing

 

Poetry Video: TEXAS, THEIR TEXAS PARTS ONE AND TWO

 Assembling a portion of an earlier poem with a recently written one about Texas’s horrible anti-abortion legislation.  Aware that the state I grew up in has a very imperfect history, but I never expected this kind of  demagoguery.

https://youtu.be/ZQ3i5G0BEfA

New Poem: TEXAS, THEIR TEXAS PART TWO

 busybodies now busy policing women’s bodies

 when they’re not celebrating shooting without a license

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 pendulum swing could be foretold in 1982

 when middle of the road Governor Mark White

 had the absolute nerve to enact No Pass, No Play

 intended to make high school athletes get passing grades

 before they could play the Holy Game of Football on Fridays

 there was a rebellion and a stunted notion of freedom even then 

 and Mark White was defeated for re-election 

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 the sidewinder snake with an appetite for Lone Star Beer

 and a SECEDE bumper sticker on the back of his pickup

 became hungry to enforce simple values on everyone 

 and, later, simpleton governors like GWB and Rick Perry

 plus Greg Abbott acting the role of fiddle-playing Covid patient 

 had no trouble offering laws and protections for the snake to excrete 

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 kids get sick, teachers die, a school closes

 but that doesn’t matter to the angry freedom bludgeoning people

 making it harder to vote, impossible to think for yourself 

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 this is what you get when you wrap bloody meat selfishness 

 inside the tamale husk of performative righteousness 

 allegedly in Jesus’ name

New Poem; DON AND CHARLIE ARE GONE

 accomplishments before frailty and finality

 music lives forever on different formats

 plus video clips both professional and cell phone jitter

 stories told before are exhumed on social media

 Warren Zevon discusses Don and Phil’s calm on storm tossed plane

 Keith Richards on how Charlie punched out Mick for condescension 

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 younger people may have momentary interest

 older folks see time passing too rapidly

 so they turn on radio and TV for official confirmation 

 and communal mourning from musical peers

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 all over the world, silent prayers beginning with

 please don’t let anyone else die this week

 

New Poem: ANDREW CUOMO’S LAST DAYS IN ALBANY HAIKU

 shred shred shred shred shred

 Shred Shred Shred Shred Shred Shred Shred

 shred shred shred papers

New Poem: FLORIDA COVID RAMBLE

Ron De Santis letting the virus burn through his state and being blind blind blind to science to schoolchildren and to how Donald Trump—the man De Santis has seen the intestines of more than once—staked his re-election on shoving COVID aside and lost decisively to Joe Biden—Ron learns nothing, thinks he’ll jump over the canyon Trump couldn’t 

Merchant of pestilence speeding towards a truck stop in Sarasota 

Will anyone be there to greet Muster Death?

New REVIEWS AND OTHERWISE episode on McCARTNEY 3 2 1

The summit meeting between Paul McCartney and famed record producer/podcast host Rick Rubin is discussed, with some side detours into upcoming Beatle legacy projects like Peter Jackson’s GET BACK miniseries for Disney+ and Paul’s two-volume collection of song lyrics.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2qHMfHTdsGYcwRoU3Tzzfg?si=h3djX0PdRJuNGhttuw1Krg&dl_branch=1

New Poem: NEVER ENDING PANDEMIC RAMBLE

 the pandemic never ends because of ego and frailty the refusal to correct course when the wind shifts after the Mission Accomplished sign is posted on billboards all over our once great nation and the CDC can’t climb down from its don’t need to wear masks indoors redwood tree and the GOP climbs only a few inches down its covid vaccine is bad because Trump wasn’t re-elected mountain 

Tucker Carlson gets his braying ass handed to him in Montana and all he likely thinks is look at the impact  my irresponsible shit-talking has on the nation that some random guy got in my face and it went viral and the libs still know my name and writhe in pain because Rupert and Lachlan continue to have my back and all I care about is good television and I’m Harry Lime in THE THIRD MAN on top of the Vienna Ferris Wheel with no worries whatsoever about the tiny unvaccinated people way down below who believe they’re self-determination martyrs—and they are dying from the words coming out of my and my network’s mouth