Growing old is easy Just keep waking up each day Drink some coffee, watch TV Survive another day _ Take some pills to cure your ills Observe the rising prices Health concerns and unkind turns Eliminate your vices _ No more booze or drugs alas You have to turn in early When the young girls […]
Rhyme and Reason: Write Me In
Flush your minds of Donald Trump And Hillary and Bernie Ignore their speeches on the stump And join me in my journey _ I avow that poetry Will win the next election I’m asking you to write me in And make me your selection _ Outsider candidates The pundits say are who will win Get […]
Rhyme and Reason: In the back of a bar somewhere one night
In the back of a bar somewhere one night, the light of the lamp over the pool table revealed the features of the faces_ of the patrons. Some engaged. Some detached. Lonely eyes. Hungry eyes. A collage of hollow, wanton hopes and unfulfilled desires. In the back of a bar somewhere one night, the rancid […]
Rhyme and Reason: May
The lilies of the valley, burst from fields of emerald green Oh May; unleash the beauty, of the Earth so it be seen _ The sweaters to the closet, and the seeds are in the ground The babble of the brooks and bees, in sync, sing out their sound _ The young ones seek each […]
A Cappella Handyman: Reporting phish
AS IF LIFE WEREN’T DIFFICULT ENOUGH, now we have to contend with white-collar criminals sending emails to our home computers with our bank’s logo, telling us in corporate-sounding language that “several fraudulent attempts have been made to enter your bank accounts” and therefore unless we click on the link below and “verify all our bank […]