Good Morning! Happy Morning! I know I’m a little late on this, but I’m still going to post my thoughts on Juneteenth. If you’ve never heard of Juneteenth prepare to be “schooled.” Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865 Union soldiers led […]
Yes, yes, yes!
Sat facing away from the sun
an old man wipes years from his eyes
drawn over with cataract like milky bath water
he strains to see the outline of motion
where are all the old men? He thinks
once so barrel chested and neatly trimmed
with mustaches and shiny hair like Cover Girl teens
where are all the eighties queers who painted beaches
with tight abs and tiny shorts in tropical shades?
now half empty, the beach longs for color
only rotund women with bristly chins
unkempt hair chopped without thought
some with children or children’s children
placing sensible shades and thick UV factor 50
on slow-moving parts of themselves
in previous years you could
reach out and paint a rainbow
in their courage of being twenty
though lesbians and gay men do not
always a palate make
such contrasts in their expression
these women without restraint
mopping the brows…
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Love it!
Speechless. Too bad I don’t believe in hell.
The big monied backed Pro-Trump PACs went into action with negative TV Ads to pressure the republican Senator from Neveda, Dean Heller as soon as he announced on 6/23/17, that he could not back the Senate’s version of Trumpcare.
This is a perfect case study in how the billionaire folks like the Koch brothers, the Mercers and others exert undue influence over the republican legislators to where they are put at risk if they put the well being and needs of their constituents first before their’s.
Trump Advisers Start ‘America First Policies’ Nonprofit
As per the 6/24/17 Washington Post article by David Weigle, “(Senator Dean) Heller, the only Senate Republican facing a 2018 reelection bid in a state won by Hillary Clinton last year, announced on Friday (6/23/17) that he could not back a bill “that takes away insurance from tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of…
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Intense!
Always good.
I was trying to comment on a couple of d’Verse poems tonight but they wouldn’t take. It said Comment and I did and then it asked what site I was from and then for my site name and then wouldn’t take my comment–wanted me to start all over again and also asked if I wanted to join ATOM whatever that is. Where are you supposed to learn new procedures?
I’m not really as upset as this may sound, just a little frustrated and feeling ignorant (which I do hat
e).
I’ve decided my blog is too eclectic. My pages aren’t, but they’re usually by-passed anyway. My problem I think is that I write what I’m intrested in, and I have too wide a variety of interests for one blog. I’m also 81 and that’s not too cool, (I myself get dreadfully impatient with fumbling old folks like myself). Since you know I’m an incest survivor and you may not be, that’s a turn-off, especially since I seem to insist on reblogging tough tales. Downs Syndrome is not a funny topic–that’s why I have a separate page for it that is almost never visited. That’s ok. I’m just taking care of my own needs there.
My About page touts me as having a sense of humor, but it’s hard to fake unless it turns into sarcasm, and I swore off that years ago. About competitiveness: I’ve come across a lovely Christian lady’s blog who appears to be my age, and she’s cheery and loving and all those things I’m not.
I”d hate to see my stats alongside hers. Either I discover a level way to attract followers or resign myself to an incidental. Incidental! That’s not what I wanted to grow up/old to be! Another disadvantage s that I’m not in a sexual relationship nor ever will be. There go about half the poetry topics. And I’m lowdown fat, so cooking leaves me out. The other day I sampled some philosopical blogs and discovered I’ve lost about half my vocabulary, if I ever possessed so erudite a one.
I could fill this blog with all my pages and stories of errors in judgment, embarrassing things I have done (shudder), boo boos and downright thoughtless and selfish things I’ve done, but I don’t think that would increase my readership.
Why do I want readers? First, because everyone else has more than me (that’s where the competitive strain comes in). Second, I do crave contact and exchange of ideas. There’s been a hole in my life ever since I finished psychology graduate school that’s never really been filled. It’s the back and forth I crave, I think. I’d fall asleep in class being lectured to for an hour or two, not to mention the dread of slight discomfort getting there and back.
SO I SHOULD RE-TITLE THIS blog Complain Complain Complain, another kind of blog I try and avoid myself. I’m not seeking reassurance from my relatives and blogging friends, so please don’t provide reassurance. Just let me pout a little while and I;ll reappear with all smiles. Did you ever catch mood swings like mine?
Great, fulfilling metaphor! Love the final lines, and “leave out the heart or the brain. You can’t have them both working at the same time.” A reblog.
i have taken myself
apart like those model kits
you know, the visible man
he had transparent skin
and you could see his skeleton
and organs but not his state
of mind
[though there was a small
pink brain in the tiny skull]
i open up
split in half
my body
an invisible canopic jar
pull out the spleen
the liver
the lungs
put them back
the wrong way
see if the plumbing still
works
leave out the heart
or the brain
you can’t have them both
working at the same time
instinct [which boils down
to what you want
and what you don’t want]
or reason
[but the brain is already
rubbish at that–did you
see the gorilla on the court?]
spleen
who the hell needs that
leave it out
when i shut the lid
on this transparent coffin
this brittle, see-through skin
i have less to worry about
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I am in awe…
Arm and a Leg
Illusions of safety
Attributable to income, incoming
Building walls or mending fences?
Buying organs, identities, nests
Restoration Hardware without the rest
Free People Anthro-pologies, we’re sorry
Batteries not included
Starbuck junior
If you’re hungry
They feed you the Body
You can take me to church
But the poor (of spirit of commerce) are the ones who enlist
in the battle hymn of the republickans
take a lickin’ finger lickin’ nope just dickin’ mmmm mmm that’s good!
Because we cannot afford to worship at the temple of
Saint Laurent
A spiritual experience is in the bag.
Cha Ching.
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