Tag: Ethics
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Milky Skies, See What We See
Milky Skies, See What We See milky skies forour mid-day ridemisty-blue mountaintopssilhouettes in the south northern mountainsnot so misty, by halfand to our leftthe dragon’s teeth glintof the Tucson range a roadrunner streaksacross our pathexits stage rightrunning in circles as we passas if caught in our slipstreamha! a cyclist’s dream human coyotes on electric bikesare…
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Man Of Constant Sorrow
Man Of Constant Sorrow I am a man of constant sorrowI’ve seen trouble all my daysI bid farewell to old KentuckyThe place where I was borned and raised(The place where he was borned and raised) For six long years I’ve been in troubleNo pleasure here on earth I findFor in this world I’m bound to…
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Another Memoir Memory – The Black Knight – 1968
The Black Knight It was a crisp, early fall, late evening; and the very airseemed alive, crackling with energy, shimmering in thestreet-lights’ dim glow, where the colors of trees, bushes,and parked cars were rich and deep on the desertedstreet, with golden highlights on everything… I waswitnessing Shiva’s Dance. Then it rumbled in the distance, like…
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The New Dark Ages
The New Dark Ages from the declineof the Roman Empireto the Renaissanceover a thousand years clerics and kingsdestroyed most of theancient wisdoms andsciences with burnings books and witcheswith blood-letting‘medical’ and warringconquering and conjuring religious incantationsrule by ‘divine right’butchers blessed byclerics’ sanctions it’s happening againfor the last half-centurytill who knows whenbook bannings and burnings another world…
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Blue Skies Smilin’ At Me
Blue Skies Smilin’ At Me once again on the Loopblue skies smilin’ at meover the mountian peaksand through thewinter-bared trees early Brittlebush bobs itsamarillo heads in glorioussouthwest sunshinethat washes postcardpanoramas of the high Sonoran desert a lone roadrunner exitsstage left as I scanthe nettles for ACMEroadrunner traps or anvilsand just maybe Wiley E… –LE –…
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Easily Fatigued In My Dotage
Easily Fatigued In My Dotage Facetiously asked if I fatigue easily in my ‘dotage’, I replied, ‘you have no idea [just how easily]’. The fact is that I’m fatigued by almost everything in the current zeitgeist. It’s extremely tiring, enduring the authoritarian entrenchment of the world’s socio-psychopaths, the world’s ruling classes, and their exploitation of…
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Pensive
Pensive pensive positive perhaps memories warm and cold melancholy unresolved be happy so the song resolves left with myself alone and pensive –LE – 1/23/25
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My Moring Darkness Returning
Wrote this about the closing moments and aftermath of one of my ill-fated relationships, in case you were wondering… Morning Darkness fadingthe lyingangry voicesviolentlycrying alone againtryingsighingdying searing pain againmakes mortality plainconstant wishing forhealing rain but that’s OKwe’re all to blameonly a gameour claim to famepretty lamegoofy even I forgetwhichfirst manhis brianare theysame – same now…
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Controversy
Controversy sandwiches of lunch meats and cheeseonce a heavy dietary influencenow makes me sneeze lactose intolerance, it seemslike most of humanity’sdietary allergies plus carcinogenic proteinsfrom animal fleshsuper processed to last forever at least at Micky-dee’s sounds appetizing, I knowprocessed foods killing youever so slowly in your sleep with incurable cancersand legitimate questionsgo unanswered from the…
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Memoir Memory – High School Silver
A humbling experience, as has been most of life so far… I was going through an old journal that rekindled a humbling experience from high school, my senior year, of an audition I’d hoped to walk away from, a big gold medal winner… It didn’t happen as I’d hoped.. Second-place Mantra I am the chosen…