Category: ShortStory
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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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Our Current “Leadership”
Another Scalawag In Power Low down and dirtyBlack hearted scalawag Took me to the crow’sMurder reunion cotillion Told everyone he’sWorth a quintillion And scampered awayWith all the sweetmeats Took to the evening skyAs I watched with a long sigh –LE
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Hmmm, Depression Anyone?
It seems that depression is, or is becoming, the new ‘normal’ in our modern world. A coincidence? I wonder… Depression depression feelings of inadequacydepressionmodern epidemicy o uhaven’t worked hardenough as hardas ancestors ormodern rolemodelsthe system’spropagandahard-won truthsfrom a long life Inadequacy conditionedinto us all by socialgatekeepers socalled‘leaders’consumerismneeds depressedinadequacy fuelcommerce in thingswe don’t need andcan’t afford keep…
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Another Memoir Memory From The Late ’60s
For What It’s Worth – The Hut Lounge Something’s happening here Buffalo Springfield on the jukeboxLinda Lane slayed us with herintricate guitar work andsensuous vocals What it is ain’t exactly clear Her band – Lady and the TrampsGeorge Hoka on his Hammondmesmerizing sound like the Animalsvoice soulful like Burdon’s There’s a man with a gun…
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Checkout Lines
Checkout Lines has anyone hadthe misfortuneto be stuck in a Walmartcheckout line recently have you noticed that mostof the cashiers are theoldest and slowestretirees the store can find trying to bore us intousing the self-checkoutsforce us to do the workwith no compensation no discounts avoid hiring and payingliving wages to thoseforced by austerity policiesto work…
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Let’s Get Real …
Get real! You hear it all the time, but what is “real?” “Real” is a human idea, as are all ideas. Ideas on the nature of reality have evolved with our bodies, brains, and social psyches. And just as all life continues to evolve or go extinct, our ideas of “reality” also continue to evolve.…
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Jazzy Sexy Sax
Putting this back out there for another tour around the proverbial ‘block’…; -) Baritone Sax bass tonesof a baritone saxblast the underpinningsof space/time apartas we tumblethrough the voidreaching out forany residual strandsof melodyfrom the songof life –LE – 8/29/24 PS: How would you define ‘the song of life’? Is it strictly physical, spiritual, psychic, or…
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From Behind The Facade
From Behind The Facade I occasionally feel duplicitouspeering out throughthe windows of my facadestudying it in the mirror should one feel duplicitouswhen we all cultivate oneover our lifetimesocieties demand it must submit to social ‘norms’regardless of internal truthsthat may or may not besupported in ours do we, can we evertruly know ourselvesthe essence behindour two…
CynOp 