Category: ShortStory
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Morality – Wisdoms From The Get’ To The Present
Ancient And More Modern Wisdoms Some say, Jesussome say, Lao Tzuthere’s MuhammadPlato, Gurgiff, Buddha,and Confucious tooonly to name a few– and that’s a mouthful – they say it’s tooambiguouswisdom is disguisedwhere’s theambiguity inliving simple lives it’s an ancient linelife allows no crimebut wisdom in disguiseshould make us realize that what goes upmust come backdown andmany…
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Sol’s QR Coding
Sol’s QR codingTaurus projected – dappledshadows under trees shadows of yellowpalo verde blossoms rainetch the QR code –LE – 5/3/25
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Work Ethic – Santimonious Myth
I wrote this in response to those complaining about the lack of a ‘work ethic’ (AKA the complainer’s particular ‘ethic’) among the younger generations, and bragging to me about their own, dripping with disgusting sanctimony. Work Ethic – Sanctimonious Myth the imagined moral superiority ofa capitalist vision of a work ethicbased on hard labor and…
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Another Memoir Memory
Crush On A Greek Goddess Antoinette my half-hour violin lessonfollows her’sI’m sitting in the professor’swaiting room – hiskitchenhis apartment’s mainroom – his studioI hear her playingbeautifully my turnshe comes out aGreek goddess tallclassically beautifullooking only at the kitchenexit to the hallwayshe heads straight forit looking neitherleft nor right knowing of my crushshe purposefullywalks by ignoringthis…
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First Loop Ride In May
First Loop Ride In May Bright clear cerulean skySol’s long morning raysDapple shadows the whole wayTo El Camino del Cerro‘The road to nowhere’ Most of the way The dry riverbed exudesLush verdant treesWho’s roots must runTo the river belowGone subterraneanA century ago Sadly Homeless campsIn the riverbedHave exploded exponentiallySince we moved hereA short few years…
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Valhalla Calling
Valhalla Callingby Miracle of Sound – Performed by Voiceplay Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh, oh, ohOh, oh, oh, oh, ohValhalla callingMe Ships on vigor of the waves are skimmingBarren summits to the verdant plainsEach horizon is a new beginningRise and reignFar from the fjords and the ice-cold currentsRavens soar over new frontiersSongs and…
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Fusión Música
Listening to a Fusion of Melodies and Rhythms Beats Antique bass note shakes the houselike distant thunder rumblingeerie hollow violin stringsscratchy vibrationstaut bow slowly draggedacross themexotic finger cymbalsand toe-bellsrhythmically accentthe oboe and saxlyre-strings plucking outthe counterpointpainting a dreamy sceneIn the sound of athousand faces in beatsantique –LE
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Yes, Still Pushing My Buttons
Yes, it’s still going on, never seems to end; takes a short break from time to time, but resumes unerringly at my most fragile times… Drive Me Mad drive – me mador wild – insanemundaneall the same harassing loudfour-wheeloff-road on theroad wheelies abound dogs barkingin every yardpass the rage onbarrio hounds some are not intuitiveor…
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Poem Inspired by The Tale of Shikanoko by Lian Hearn
Shikanoko the deer’s child, honed bylight and dark sorcerydeep in the dark wood love of the Autumn Princesshis undoing and long sorrowlady Hina’s love his salvation with five magical, imp sonstwo became his banewould have to deal with in time while his sixth human sonimp and Tengu trainedhis champion soon became and daughters? perhaps…the tale…
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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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