Category: Commentary
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Who Am I?
Who Am I? I’m shyDepending onMy home groundColored yellowsThrough redsBrowns and blacks I’m tinyIn some realmsFairly large in others My stingDeadly to insects andSmall animalsMerely painful toLarger onesHumans and such Stinger on a hair-triggerHanging close over myExoskeleton-back You guessed me –Scorpion –LE – 6/17/25
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No Kings Protest Everyday
No Kings Protest Everyday For democracy to succeedEvery day must be aNo Kings Day protestWe thought kingsWere a thing of ancient historyBut they tricked us all Didn’t go quietly into the pagesOf history, as we’d hopedMerely changed from robesTo business suits andTitles from king toCEO Every day must beA refusal to bend the kneeKiss the…
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Sunday Ride – Day-after No Kings Day
The Day-after – Sunday Ride Prairie dog zips fromOne entrance to another ofIts underground warren Skink playing chicken with meOn the hot sun-dappled pavementExits stage left just in the nick of time Sentinel bird of preyOn the highest branch ofThe skeleton of the tallest Dead witch-tree –LE – 6/15/25 Metaphor for the current zeitgeist?
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A Good Bass Line
A Good Bass Line Bass-line vibrates my coreShakes off all thatSticks and clogs my dermalPores Tensions pourOff me like waterFrom springtime showersBass arpeggios, like a deep Rolfing massage –LE – 6/10/25
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No Kings Protest Tucson
Describe one of your favorite moments. When citizens stand up to authoritarians. Here, we thought the world was, for the most part, DONE WITH KINGS. Unfortunately, they tricked us. They didn’t go away, just changed their titles from ‘kings’ to ‘CEOs’. Down with ‘kings’ in any and all their forms! For me, it was a…
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A Scoundrel’s Last Refuge & Murder
A few quotes that say it all… “Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!” –Friedrich Nietzsche “All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.” –Friedrich Nietzsche You may notice that I’ve started this out with the…
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Legend Of A Mind
Legend Of A Mindby The Moody Blues Timothy Leary’s dead.No, no, no, no, He’s outside looking in.Timothy Leary’s dead.No, no, no, no, He’s outside looking in.He’ll fly his astral plane,Takes you trips around the bay,Brings you back the same day,Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary’s dead.No, no, no, no, He’s outside looking in.Timothy Leary’s dead.No,…
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Which Season, Indeed?
What is your favorite season of year? Why? Well, maybe NOT my favorite, but certainly the most current and provocative… The Season Of The Witch. … You’ve got to pick up every stitchYou’ve got to pick up every stitch, yeahBeatnicks are out to make it richOh no, must be the season of the witchMust be…
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My Favorite Music
My Favorite Music Bass lines that rumble theDeep foundations of my beingWith highs like butterflies on the wingCause a fundamental shiftIn awareness Some inspires dancing spontaneousLike no one’s watchingOr deep contemplation ofHamonics and overtonesAnd some’s just for Relaxing, meditating And yes, there’s room forHeadbangingIf you’re really in the moodWords may give someSpecial meanings But are…
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London Bridge Is Falling Down – Part 2
The Lamposts on London Bridge were created from the melted down cannons of Napoean Bonaparte. This bridge stood across the Thames from 1831 to 1967. It wasn’t really ‘falling down’, but due to modern traffic, it was sinking in the riverbed. Since the bridge opened at Lake Havasu, a so-called ‘English Village’ (read, tourist-trap) was…
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