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My unreasonable expectations have often led me down the path of irrational exuberance.

  • Outlier

     

    A morning lie in

    Telling more lies to myself

    A real outlier 






  • February 2025

     






    Seems like yesterday
    Had a group the geezer griped
    To no one but he










     


    No one’s a buyer
    Yet everyone’s a merchant
    Selling vaporware







     




    With my heart on Fir
    Woke with an oak in my head
    Pulled up my Birches
    Kissed my dear Maple goodbye
    Undid the door Larch and left








     




    Entrails have spoken
    You cannot argue with them
    Auguries broken






    Media portrays 
    Lifestyle goals to entrap you 
    In a web of debt







     




    The glide in my stride

    The cut in my strut told all

    My next bounce was nigh







     




    The cosmic catfish

    Turned violet under it’s log

    Trouble was afin





     




    worldwide levels of

    the milk of human kindness

    is in red flag drought






     





    one person’s border
    is another person’s brink
    before crossing, think








     




    One more on my tab

    A round of liberation

    Last call for freedom







     



    Strive to overstand
    While trying to understand
    Leads to understood





     





    My trusty blackbird

    Biscuit tied to bush nearby

    Dear to me, oh my








     



    Couch cushion trenches

    A fort of fluffy pillows

    Turn off the TV

    Tabernacle of TruthHold

    During siege on decency 







     





    social distancing 
    on social media brings
    quiet quietude 






























     










    Seize the day as one
    Cherish the day when it’s done
    You know you have won
















     





    Life in the jetstream
    Grooving deep in the slipstream
    Of my waking dream







     




    Day out for the boy

    Overcoat over the coat

    Two layers of joy







     







    the world continues
    without us says the distant
    domino falling








     







    the world continues
    without us says the distant
    domino falling









     




    evergreen towers

    over my old family home

    cover story told

    a long ago Christmas tree

    was planted there and took root







     







    ingredients bought

    for big recipe inspire

    until they expire






     






    Political speak
    Two geese passing in the mist
    A distant honking

     





    I never confuse

    A flurry of actions with

    Productivity 








     






    enormity is

    established after two steps

    off the bluff of time







     




    raw emotions are
    like raw data and raw books
    need to cook them first


     






    Two foot jump in muck

    So deep frog found itself stuck

    Now needs a toad truck






     







    News dazzle design
    Camouflage facts instead of
    Smooth contour of truth








     





    A morning lie in

    Telling more lies to myself

    A real outlier 






  • Contour

     

    News dazzle design

    Camouflage facts instead of
    Smooth contour of truth







  • Muck

     

    Two foot jump in muck

    So deep frog found itself stuck

    Now needs a toad truck






  • Raw

     

    raw emotions are

    like raw data and raw books

    need to cook them first







  • Bluff

     

    enormity is

    established after two steps

    off the bluff of time






  • Flurry

     

    I never confuse

    A flurry of actions with

    Productivity 







  • Mist

     

    Political speak

    Two geese passing in the mist
    A distant honking






  • Inspire

     

    ingredients bought

    for big recipe inspire

    until they expire






  • Cover

     

    evergreen towers

    over my old family home

    cover story told

    a long ago Christmas tree

    was planted there and took root







  • Slurp

     


    A frog on a log
    Obsess on a midair fly
    Ribbit Ribbit (slurp)
















  • Domino

     

    the world continues
    without us says the distant
    domino falling






  • Joy

     

    Day out for the boy

    Overcoat over the coat

    Two layers of joy







  • Slipstream

     

    Life in the jetstream
    Grooving deep in the slipstream
    Of my waking dream






  • Cherish

     

    Seize the day as one
    Cherish the day when it’s done
    You know you have won















  • Quiet

     

    social distancing 
    on social media brings
    quiet quietude 












  • Fort

     

    Couch cushion trenches

    A fort of fluffy pillows

    Turn off the TV

    Tabernacle of TruthHold

    During siege on decency 






  • Blackbird

     

    My trusty blackbird

    Biscuit tied to bush nearby

    Dear to me, oh my







  • Understand

     

    Strive to overstand

    While trying to understand

    Leads to understood





  • Liberation

     

    One more on my tab

    A round of liberation

    Last call for freedom






  • Brink

     

    one person’s border

    is another person’s brink
    before crossing, think






  • Drought

     

    worldwide levels of

    the milk of human kindness

    is in red flag drought





  • Violet

     

    The cosmic catfish

    Turned violet under it’s log

    Trouble was afin





  • Bounce

     

    The glide in my stride

    The cut in my strut told all

    My next bounce was nigh







  • January 2025

     

    Photo by Bruno Leschi on Unsplash


    Endings all around
    Beginnings around us too
    Trick is which is which

     


    twenty twenty five
    has begun the demise of
    the beguine again


     



    on the upside it’s
    not twenty five twenty five
    so we’re still alive


     


    events sadden me
    scratch at my devices gate
    but I refuse to
    throw myself down rabbit holes
    with no more bunnies to give

     


    Expose film to light

    Dark. Chemical bath. More light.

    Develop photo

    You’re the film exposed to light

    Be the paper of your life


     

    the taste of a steak

    cooked on my old charcoal grill

    flavor moooooves  me still

     



    from a furtive glance
    to glancing blow use the chance to view each askance




    Groomed in the sixties
    For draft in the seventies
    Nation said, “Nevermind.”

     


    My last found lover
    Can seduce like no other
    Her special allure
    Turns my awkward blue chatter
    To slutty sapphire banter

     


    A fresh layer snow

    What prints shall we leave this time

    History tracks us



     



    Few that I call friend
    Over time fewer still hear
    Battles fought each year
    Even when they were long lost
    Still grateful to see you near









    freeze the frieze in time
    captured on a viaduct 
    or just graffiti 






    my breathing routine

    creative on the intake

    exhale productive



     



    balanced on the crust
    of economies pie chart
    debt magnet pulls me






     



    walls made of our stuff
    stacked in cattywampus rows
    selfmade labyrinth




     




    The fool swayed on stage
    While the fools lapped it all up 
    “I don’t need you fools” 
    “I’ve fooled enough already” 
    As the fools all fell in line



     




    where inerrant meets
    aberrant that’s vanity
    shifting abhorrent




     





    recalling the view
    when I started lifetimes slide
    “wheeeee!” been quite a ride




     



    How is glorified
    confirmation bias sold?
    In bunches of hunch.









     



    I guess this is proof
    Bad ideas never end
    They just hibernate






     







    digital pucker
    with musk bezos and zucker
    potted flesh for them
    greased with their filthy lucre
    canned spam American scam

     





    Peek through lace curtains
    Now tattered shredded and stained
    See chaos inside

     





    I have to remind
    myself to remember the
    things I’ve forgotten

     





    A glimmer of hope

    Not on the menu today

    Just cold grumpy gruel








     



    I turn today’s page
    To get on with tomorrow’s
    Blue plate du jour rage






    Nascent ruin for most
    Mimicry of the lifestyle
    Rich and shameless ruse
    Blatantly picking pockets
    Selling we can be like them









     




    When the gift of girth
    Delivers mountains of mirth
    For all of its worth

     




    start of day snuggle
    finger tips wander delights
    trace the path to more

     




    Donning the sable

    Self righteous posturing gone

    Malfeasance galore





     





    spare me your fiat

    relationship currency

    I want to barter





     



    All smoke and savor 

    Wafting up from our altars

    Leaving ash behind







  • NYE 2024

     

    A.I. image generated from tanka text


    Three wise guys showed up
    With former partner moaning
    Rattling life chains
    Fugetaboutit was first
    Repast from the distant past


    Then arrived Liveit
    Or Livewithit in a blink
    As an instant wink
    Hovering in the doorway
    Was you know who arriving


    Imminent glory
    Dontworryaboutit now
    Pay for it later
    Wide open to interpret
    Past Present Future

  • Debt


    Media portrays 

    Lifestyle goals to entrap you 
    In a web of debt







  • Argue

     

    Entrails have spoken

    You cannot argue with them
    Auguries broken






  • Heart on Fir

     

    With my heart on Fir
    Woke with an oak in my head
    Pulled up my Birches
    Kissed my dear Maple goodbye
    Undid the door Larch and left







  • Merchant

     

    No one’s a buyer

    Yet everyone’s a merchant

    Selling vaporware