Category: poetry

Heat Wave… ~00~

The residents of an isolated mountain town must band together to survive during a devastating heat wave.

Moses and Abraham myths…

The writers were not concerned about facts. The Bible is replete with hints that these stories are no more than mythic symbolizations used to influence large masses of uneducated people.

Summertime Blues

“Summertime Blues”, it is said, took Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart just 45 minutes to write. Three verses about a teenager cursed by the fact that instead of cruising with his girlfriend, he has to spend the summer working, set to one of rock music’s first great guitar riffs. It was just an E, an A and a B7, but three chords were all Cochran needed.

Indigenous Blues

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society.”

Invisible Religion

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

What’s goin’ on…

on the day before his 45th birthday, Gaye was shot and killed by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., at their house in Western Heights, Los Angeles

Myths, magic, mystery and fairy tales

There is an outdated theory that fairy folklore evolved from folk memories of a prehistoric race:
newcomers superseded a body of earlier human or humanoid peoples

Billy Preston…

Born: September 2, 1946, Houston, TX
Died: June 6, 2006 (age 59 years), Arizona
Music groups: Plastic Ono Band (1970 – 1970), Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band (1989 – 2000)
Genres: R&B/Soul, Hip-Hop/Rap, Holiday
Parents: Robbie Lee Williams

Lobotomy Blues: Dorothy Parker…

the lobotomy had not only fallen out of favor by the 1950s but was being excoriated as a barbaric practice. The Soviet Union banned the surgery in 1950, arguing that it was “contrary to the principles of humanity.”

Dr. Jill Ellen Stein can Win!

Dr. Jill Stein has a vetted plan for shutting down 56 wars of aggression and investing in peace, people and planet. And she is smart enough to get it done. She is, by any standard, more qualified than the last seven American presidents.

Joy Blues

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it.”

Highway 61

Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren’t right
My complexion she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light, he says hmm you’re right
Let me tell the second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61

Murders most Foul…

Assassinations in America: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Nov. 22,1963), Malcolm X, Malcolm Little, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Feb. 21, 1965), and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Luther King Jr. (April 4th, 1968) Robert Francis Kennedy (June 6, 1968), Fredrick Allen Hampton (Dec. 4, 1969), Marc Clark (Dec. 4, 1969)

Stardust

https://youtu.be/_T6WKdrxzyY?t=9 Willie Nelson / Stardust                               … More

Eugene the Jeep

https://youtu.be/l0asgF3RtZw 1960-10-06: Ike & Popeye’s Magical Jeep In the August 9, 1936, strip, headlined “Wha’s a Jeep?” [sic] Popeye asks … More

Hold on, we are stardust…

You may be approaching middle age… “Humans could live until the ripe old age of 150 years” How long can … More

Cats

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
~Terry Pratchett

Invisible Data

Tedium

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.” ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959 Real life may be … More

Jill Stein is running for the Presidency

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.”
― Arundhati Roy

Human Beings

Humans are characterized by bipedalism and high intelligence. Their scientific name is Homo sapiens, of the order primates.