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Friday, April 3, 2026


 

it's genius
each veiled
creedless mystery
feeding such
a brilliant
genuine delight
but maybe
this world
it's something
even demons
flushed down
some slimy
hellish drain
but still
isn't it
utterly miraculous
blowing all 
our mystified
confused minds
maybe we
somehow will
perhaps dream
our way
navigate out
of this
disingenuous mess
it's something
I must
truly confess
that simply
always seems 
completely surreal
gravity's misadventure
if only
killer's bullets
weren't real
if only
applauding bombs
didn't fall
all that
flawed history
marauding psalms
confusing us
all those
nefarious politics
leaving us
severely broken
forever pondering 
even wondering
ever wandering
isn't though
just wonderful
staunch life
where children
all that
every innocence
all that
what was
almost good
is torn
ripped apart
by those
that should
be setting
some thing
even good
an example
something instead
of cruel
bitter war
causing grief
yet instead
bloody greed
steadily mar
ready relief
double crossing
so many
needlessly die
fall bleeding
those things
that might
have been
something beautiful 
even sure
those things
that could
have been
beyond blind
mysterious ritual
loveless nothing
but victims
horrid gore
all those
loveless lies
that we
are told
all that
pitifully phony
that always
forever unfolds
what sort 
of revolution
does it
bloodywell take
to change
broken things
make things
spoken better
maybe God 
needs to
simply arrive
grab those
faithless guilty
by their
conniving throats
pluck out
their lies
evil eyes
tear out
their cold
deceitful hearts
maybe then
all that
marauding genius
would reveal
unveil those
curtained mysteries
so we
certainly all
could live
certain brilliance
so we
forever all
might give
faithfully share
our world
which just
makes sense
but then 
all those
demented despots
hiding secluded
always scheming
vainly they're
golden towers
while innocence
unfolding everything
that was
once told
as perfectly
seemingly good
is sent
unceremoniously rent 
dreaming hell
like they
all should
so in
all their
fucked up
total inhumanity
thinking they
are smart
saying they
are great
some people
do see
all their
shifty lies
causing all
shifting this
worldly strife
shoving tawdry
garish knives
into every
good soul
shoddy causing
this world
to bend
bodies bleeding
what if
virile sun
simply refused
to shine
what if
all oceans
simply turned
to brine
what would
we do
would all
even those 
brilliant leaders
all those
smartly genius
simply say
it was
our fault
couldn't be
wasn't theirs
but really
who truly
fucking cares
who doesn't
always wish
they were
grandly rich
more powerful
who doesn't
pray standing
for more
give me
hordes more
sordidly maybe
it is
all illusion
affording maybe
it is
all delusion
even certainly
it is
utter confusion
some believe
in all
yet those 
richly powerful
impertinent lies
some believe
God is
still on
their side
while God
stays away
uproariously laughing
at us
all this
roaring war
making everything
that once
was almost
even good
so dearly 
heaven pays
nothing is
every going
to be
alright again
so much
is lost
brilliance isn't
even in
within sight
that genius
left us
simply escaped
our world
when propaganda
took its
virulent hold
its deathly
cheerless grip
making innocence
light itself
self immolation
destructive fire
with all
war's grizzly
untamed desire
with all
our forgotten
happy dreams
so now
just us
drowning here
dangerously crowned
by this
choking mire

       * * * 

Tuesday, March 31, 2026


 

jesters silenced
FUBAR to say the least
a mutating virus
this flourishing beast
is it just us
or those gathering vultures
or is it just them
relishing another cannibal feast
or those words we speak
FUBAR parading
that truth we seek
those poems we write
jesters silenced
FUBAR parading
as enlightened right

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Monday, March 30, 2026


 

all my grief my love
this pain and sorrow
resonating in my soul
all that sad and sorrow
my heart has come to know
if I live to see tomorrow
I hope that sad sorrow
doesn't continue
to magnify and sadly grow
what if joy and happiness
would come to ease
all this pain we've known
perhaps my heart
would find some goodness
that fleeting joy
happiness has sown
all that fragrant beauty 
we would like to know
virtually always see
if only all that fragrance
wasn't always lost
in love's costly forever's
but never forgotten love
precious joy and happiness
could still be you and me

               * * * 

Saturday, March 28, 2026

 

hey man
those 1920's
dancing flappers
short skirts
those rebellious
fashion sheiks
after war
then man
those 1930's
modern hepcats
hepsters and hipsters
all about
jazz man
hepjills and hepchicks
all about
jive slang
all that
cat-ologue swing
then man
more war
a beyond thing
that 1940's
hip bebop 
counterculture scene
that was
a dig-it thing
challenging mainstream
those cats 
and jazz cats
musicians blowing
hepster dreams
zoot suiters
with their
baggy flamboyance
counterculture cats
loving all
that jazz
all that beat
razmataz man
getting beatified
all that
beaten down
those non-conformists 
seekers man
jive slang talk
cool attitude cats
all that
beatitude poetry
those slick moves
that beatified walk
cool grooves man
beat into beatnik
jive slang man
what a cool kick
then all
those hipsters
true blue niks
more subculture
those poetic words
then Korea gore 
so stoic damn
beatniks man
ultra-slick
those 1960's
turning tricks
hipsters into hippies
those wanna be's
young yearning
twisting hordes
lordy wanna be
jive and slick
then Viet
fucking Nam man
blowing off
every lid
evolving into
jam man
showing off
those cruel
tricky dicky licks
dancing jive man
into that
acid groove
psychedelic chicks
showing off
those naked
Woodstock tits
what a fit man
what a cool groove
now those
preachers man
beach gurus 
where they sit
more counter culture
a steady
ready move
poetry man
that slam 
so sure
taking off
for moon man
dreaming meth
ecstasy and cool
surely stealth
soon man
all those kicks
fantasy and groove
counter culture man
still making
hipsters move
don't be
square man
be a daddy-O
where ever doll
if you try 
you can man
fly into that 
sutra show
just go man
jump off
that poetic cliff
parachute free man
new-hippies
into neo-hippies
spirit free man
those back
to that
land chicks
peace love
and freedom
something all
hip wants
living in that
groove man
churning ultra-modern
resisting tricks
all that modern
insanity man
all that fresh
sanity and clean
pulling heads
out of that 
deep sand man
still seeking
perfect shangri-la
coming out
of those strange
awesome clouds man
coming down
to earth man
trying to recover
from being
so deranged
all that
fascist propaganda
strange drumming
range of sound
all those earthly 
vibes man
that are never
truly over
all this new
hip and groove
modern woman and man
arranging something new 
modern tribes man
something absolute
and clever
solutions modern
truth behooves
that something
real endeavour

         * * * 

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

 

now
we are
digging 
our own
graves
some day
soon
we will
bury
ourselves deep
lost
in unholy
ground
what choice
might
we have
before
all cherished
light
goes out
one
last time
grant
us patience
good
will help
us
some day
finally
find sacred
shovel
a holy
place
integral space
where
we will
lay
deep within
mother
our earth
finally
one time
perhaps
all our
dreams
aren't so
happy
after all
maybe
god will
remotely
come take
our
feeble hand
lead
us all
home
to that
sacred
where place
does
virtual holy
abound
so let
us
still dig
deeper
keep digging
our
troubled world
dream
let us
dream
that sacred
place
where justice
purity
absolute tranquility
most
of us
want
to be
when
we are
finally
one day
found
in that
deep
cold grave
where
eternity keeps
saves
our memories
so
completely profound

         * * * 

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

 


this celibate
carnal mind
what is there
to celebrate
with that revelated
animal kind
what if
faith and belief
truly elevated
with all that
unengaged kind
if that sacred
imagined egg
remained unbroken
universal outline
remained unattached
never fertilized
remained unhatched
what might 
this planet be
a molten site
an uncertain place
grinding contrite
folding rocks
where tectonic plates
meet drifting sand
where sightless God
naturally left
creation unadorned
void of concept
never ever left 
a vital living mark
just barren nature
forever touching
a sterile world
carnal creation
never raising
its revelated
praising hand
God's elevated
revelating finger
never creating
sentient life
out of holy water
refracting sacred light
never celebrating
abstract life
into earthbound man
nothing righteous
a mindless state
besides drifting
tectonic plates
and those
celibate rifts
of barren sand

        * * * 

Sunday, March 22, 2026

 


so you think
you have
your answer
but so does
your brother
so your mother
remains silent
with her prayers
as your father
bends to rent
his gathered shirt
tear out
what is left
his tattered doubt
so you think
those words
some rant and shout
you think
they somehow
truly mattered
you hear
pretentious garble
relentlessly pouring
intentionally down
some so called
holy mountainside
where truly
sacred water
seeks holy ocean
mixed and stirring
those holy words
you thought
you heard
even thought
you understood
but tortured blood
my contentious brother
is something
you should
always respect
communicate compassion
deliver peace
with soulful passion
truly empathize
in every dialect
find that
real caring
still can exist
within your heart
your precious soul
peace and love
humanity my friend
is living there
real truth
and precious love
beyond all this
wretched human
collective despair

         * * *