Category: Photography
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Riffing On One Of Nietzsche’s Insights
Paraphrasing Nietzsche Facts, my assNo such a thingOnly interpretations ofEvent interpellations Those that holdPublic sway in theAccepted, ‘normal’ way BS lies that normalizeJust stories that justifyThe ruling classesClutching greed and need Functions of powerFor the masses to devourCertainly NOT any kind of ‘truth’ –LE – 5/18/25
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Response To An Old Prompt
There was a prompt a while back: Have you had any broken bones? And I’ve decided to ‘riff’ on it a bit… In short, the answer is yes… Way more than I’d like to admit… Having been a Judo tournament competitor for more than 40 years, not to mention the daredevil inclinations and exploits of…
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Outrageous Mendacity
Rode the Loop this morning and musing started composing a poem to commemorate the ride. But the longer I rode and the more I saw and thought, the more my incregulity rose, giving rise to the following… Outrageous Mendacity Brite blue skySol’s pristine long raysTells a story full of lies All is wellThe whole world…
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Artisan Designed Mayhem
This is the second part of a larger piece that I wrote a few years ago after a walk through the Ancient Weapons display, on a visit to the Huntington Museum of Art on a cold evening in April. Death by Design Forged barrelMachined and polishedWith firing mechanismPatiently assembledFrom cast and smith-forgedScrews, springs, clamp-jawsTo hold…
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Morning Wonders
Morning Wonders A large bird of prey glidesHigh in the pristine blue skyIn great lazy circlesAs all is caught in itsPredatory eye As a large black dogLopes across the distant pathAnd vanishes like fogBurned away by a blisteringlyBright Arizona sun The strong headwindAnd constant inclineDrive me into aHeart Attack modeThat I’ll hopefully survive Home at…
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The Big Con
The Big Con riverbed filling upwith the blueswhites and redsof homeless camps with ‘liberated’ shoppingcarts randomly strewnthrough the camps andtheir ragged peripheries the ever-increasingcost to society of thesale of the public sphereto private interests the billionaires but as good consumersmust only see whatour owners’ publicistscon us into seeing though most seemto swallow the liein our…
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Tucson In April
Tucson In April vistas that mesmerizecolored in shades ofdesert brownsgreens and grays explosions of yellowsdapple the hillsideswashes and dryriverbeds plus a bright skyof dazzling blueafter the light rainsa few nights ago brought freshnessto the brush and treesnew iterations of DesertMallow and Brittlebush plus the sunny dispositionof Desert Marigoldslining mixed-usepaths and roads –LE – 4/22/25
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Success?
Success? If propagating the speciesIs a mark of successThen, that I amHaving bread children And in the processI’ve not killed or injuredAnyone mortallyThat I know of As for improvingHumanity’s lotContribute my meagerInput the best I can In the long viewWas it worth the effortAnd occasional pleasuresFuture generations will decide Don’t want to go outWith a…
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Here’s An Idea With Heavy Consequences
Is Reality Real or Just Perseptive illusion? Humans haveThe gift of wordsTo express and informWhat’s realAnd what’s not Make us soarOr cry and deploreSet us upFor the big failUnquestioninglyConsumed as real They express ideasSymbols physicalMental audibleThoughts individualCultural universalSwimming inGraymatter domesCan be changedAt whim and willThe cryptic tomesOf Reality –LE Who Gets to Decide One person’s…
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