Monday, May 14, 2018
Picnic
Merrill wondered aloud as to
his courage. Or lack thereof.
Judd laughed that anyone who
had lived with Sissy for a year
earned the medal exempting
him from all shaky masculine doubt!
That joke proved contagious, even
degrading into drool.
Jeremy, our Brit, scalded the American
way of turning everything into a joke!
But Heather informed him that any
race that said so many asshole things
like The Battle of Waterloo was won
on the playing fields of Eton, well…!
Carla pipes up then.
As a lesbian.
What else?
Labels: American, British, courage, female, friends, humor, lesbian, male
Friday, May 11, 2018
Here and Hear
-Everyone’s afraid, but I deal with it.
-Oh? How?
-By singing.
-Uh huh? Any type of…?
-All give form. Make you here.
-H--e-r-e or H-e-a-r?
-Both.
-Do the words of the song help?
-They can.
-Inspire?
-Possibly, but...more the resonance
of the whole business.
-You as transmitter then?
-That’s the best.
Labels: courage, fear, singing
Thursday, January 18, 2018
The Man Who Worked a Perfect
Piece of Four
Never been done!
And nobody knew or cared.
How could they, since he started Monday,
finished the preceding Tuesday?
Thus he ended before he began-–but that’s
too flip to say. We always look for something
like that.
At any rate, he forever picks out ways that
no other human can relate to.
We make our choices in Heaven and Earth!
The best of us never whining about inevitable
consequence.
And loneliness.
Labels: choice, courage, genius, solitary, time
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Long Miracle
-Chickenhawks had no end of sharp-as-a-tack
advice to those willing to risk their lives.
-Whatever happened to them, anywayz?
-They're still around. Advising your KID now.
-And theirs remain safe, family and militant gombahs huddled round?
-They wouldn't have it any other way!
-Why do cowardly assholes have such longevity in America?
-It's our greatest feature!
Labels: bravery, chickenhawk, courage, coward, longevity, neocon, war
Saturday, August 03, 2013
Adding It Up
The Stretch
So long you dif-
fidented about. Oh
there were highlights:
your standing up! May-
be 2%, but beats most.
Hey, kids to raise, and wife
and jobs to negotiate. Want
courage? Should have been fly
on wall: so have glimpsed
scant few glints amidst
the long cowardice. But
even on flashy ramparts,
sandwiches get sent out for.
Labels: courage, cowardice, life, ramparts, routine
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Profile in Courage
Consider the chap
on a business campus,
clutched by some in-
testinal horror.
Genial to the other drones,
even fun, he takes a post
lunch walk alone.
and in a copse, next to
a brook that burps
agreeably, folds.
Quite in half.
Back to talk of sports
or celebrity gossip so
inane it can hurt.
Still, of course, in pain. Per-
petually, midst men and
women at extracting work.
Labels: business, business campus, celebrity, courage, gossip, intestinal, pain, Sports, work
