Sunday, April 29, 2018
The Endless Fight for Respect
-How goes the Thirty Year Purge?
-Deadest end! And worse than death, really!
-Embarrassment?
-Unfortunately! Last unearthing was a grimy trove of kids’ stuff in the attic. Still smelling of piss and shit even after all these years!
-Hey! They got their own kids stinking up
their respective joints!
-Christ! The History of Odor!
-What’s done is done.
-I won’t relax until the whole crap’s on
the garbage truck being hauled away.
-Do you worry about the garbage men
making wisecracks, which then filters
to the village?
-I know it’s ridiculous, but Liz and I can’t help it!
-Middle-Class! Means you’re embarrassed every fuckin moment of your life!
-I thought the latest pegs us as Lower-Upper?
-There’s no escape: Death, Taxes, Shame!
Labels: children, human, Middle Class Strictures, shame
Friday, October 13, 2017
Finders and Keepers
More dangerous than put-
together, careening through
attics looking for some-
thing I couldn’t misplace
its place,
but forgot.
Organizing things
Is the surest ticket
to chaos.
But uncovering sentiment-
al artifacts past their shelf-
life of shame?
We quiet ones
need such,
however late.
Labels: chaos, life's artifacts, lost, organizing, searching, shame
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Figuring Out Heaven and Earth 1,2
Justine & Bernadette & Bernadette’s Curley
-That man should be ashamed!
-Every chance he got, he made an
exhibition of himself. And in
a bad way!
-Yeah, he was no good all right!
But...I liked him.
-How could you like him? Thinking
of the humiliation of his wife
and children?
-Well, I obviously didn't think of...
-Hey! He was never punished on this Earth!
-You mean, they'll get him eventually?
-That Final Tribune, Baby!
-Sounds like a hip newspaper. But, it’s
Tribunal methinks.
-Anyway, he'll get it then! Worse than he
deserves, I hope.
-One can always hope. Besides, he'll have
St Peter in stitches with all those little acts
he pulls.
-He's worthless, but makes people laugh!
-So, Pete gives him a pass in?
-Probably.
-Who else gets passes?
--Well, the five-percent.
-They PAY their way in then?
-I suppose.
-You mean HEAVEN'S Deck is stacked too?
-Most likely.
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The New Hire After a Week
-I hear nothing but bad about our boss,
Mr Hoska, but you say he's wonderful!
-And generous! Why he'd give you the
sleeves outa his vest!
-Hah! Back at YOU on THAT one! Vests HAVE
no sleeves!
-I give up trying to fool you forever!
Labels: Family, friendship, joke, office, shame, work
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Women today are calling each other sluts
in a friendly manner. Linguists can tell us how
some language develops like this.
Thus, anyway, the word slut loses it shaming aspect.
Not a worry.
The Despicables will coin another.
Labels: class, condescension, custom, gossip, language, linguist, morality, mores, shame, slut, slut shaming
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Shame
To a Conservative, vast,
innumerable categories.
To a Liberal, not so
across the board.
Labels: Conservative, liberal, shame
Sunday, September 13, 2009
