Tag: Ethics
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Save Our VA Friday Morning Shift-change Protest
Save Our VA Friday Morning Shift-change Protest – 9/12/25 There were six of us for this morning’s protest…; -) No Kings No Dictators No Fascists No Billionaires Keep private sector hands OFF our VA!
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Romeo Is Bleeding
Romeo Is Bleedingby Tom Waits Romeo is bleeding but not so as you’d noticeHe’s over on 18th Street as usualLooking so hard against the hood of his carPutting out a cigarette in his handAnd for all the Pachucos at the pumpsAt Romero’s Paint and BodyThey all seeing how far they can spitWell it was just…
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Broke the Bank Agian
Broke the Bank Again Broke the bank last timeThey want to do it againBankrupt next gen’s hopes A mean dirty trickDeceit, November repeatStick it to our kids And generations unbornKeep them wage-slavingIn debt forever –LE – 9/9/25
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Love and Marriage
Love and Marriage There’s a thin lineBetween love and hateThat sometimes fadesOr blurs with time…Can becomeFull-blownEnding in crime But take a chanceMake a split?Better the devilYou know than… Based in fearLives searedWith vendettasAnd feudsThat sometimesMake the news Love and marriage…Goes together like aHorse and carriage…–Frank Sinatra What’s love got toDo with itGot to do with…
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Save Our VA Protest At Ajo Gate
We’ve been protesting the attempt to defund and privatize the VA, the current administration’s canceling of the union contracts (except for those of the so-called VA ‘security’ forces). There were six of us this morning. We protest every Friday morning from 7:00 AM to around 8:30 AM for the VA’s morning shift-change. We get a…
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Nights In White Satin
Nights In White Satinby Moody Blues Nights in white satin,Never reaching the end,Letters I’ve written,Never meaning to send. Beauty I’d always missedWith these eyes before,Just what the truth isI can’t say anymore. ‘Cause I love you,Yes, I love you,Oh, how, I love you. Gazing at people,Some hand in hand,Just what I’m going thruThey can understand.…
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Maximum Efficiency – Judo
Maximum Efficiency – Judo A concept common toEastern martial artsOne I first learned inJudo classes from the start Maximum efficiencyUse of energyMotion and momentumLarge results withMinimum effortsAlso applying the physicsOf levers and fulcrums Another principle is:Aside from class warsOne’s only true enemyIs one’s selfNot your opponentAcross the mat orIn the street One must defeat one’s…
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Memoir Addendum – Old Symptoms Of Bronchitis Mostly Gone
Memoir Addendum – Old Symptoms Of Bronchitis Mostly Gone Spent most of my formative yearsTill the end of my first short marriageIn and around the glittering miasmaOf a small steel mill townAt the mouth of the Black RiverOn Lake Erie’s southern shore Walking home in the darkAfter late orchestra rehearsalsOr Judo classes and the likeThe…
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Love’s Magic Spell Or Love Potion No. … 9?
Love’s Magic Spell Or Love Potion No. … 9? Combinations of hormonesPheromones and desiresPleasing or seductivePersonalities andIntoxicating words A combination thatIf projected and overlaid wellWith our own mixedChemical hormonal stewProduces the enchantment ofLove How long can the enchantment lastKnowing full wellThe only constant in life is change? Depends on the strength ofThe ‘love cocktail’ andThe…
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When The Children Cry
When The Children Cryby White Lion Little childDry your crying eyesHow can I explainThe fear you feel inside? ‘Cause you were bornInto this evil worldWhere man is killing manAnd no one knows just whyWhat have we become?Just look what we have doneAll that we destroyedYou must build again When the children cryLet them know we…