I hear you - 9/12/26
I hear you
Eyes speak volumes
Unmet wants and needs
Diminished hopes, dreams
New tears flow in old streams
I can smell the scent of your fears
Tingles on the areas behind your ears
Metallic taste of fillings from last century
Like testing the power of a nine volt battery
Aches and pains crack in muscles and joints
A talk with myself in the mirror, making points
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Spotted Lantern Flies (SLF) - 9/11/26
Spotted Lantern Flies (SLF) are everywhere!
Climbing outside my window without a care
Too quick to hit, they just jump and fly
So I use an old fashioned fly swatter to make them all die!
I killed about a dozen of them just this afternoon
Swept up their remains with a dust pan and broom
This invasive plant hopper damages crops and trees
By drinking plant sap from their flowers and leaves
Native to China and Vietnam
They first arrived in Pennsylvania in 2014, and exploded like a bomb!
When they first appeared in Connecticut in 2025, I failed to stomp them with my feet
The 'tree of heaven' is a SLF’s favorite thing to eat
Also invasive and from the places overseas, it’s fate that both this tree and bug would eventually meet
The tree releases chemicals in the soil (allelopathy) that stop other nearby p... |
Like is a puzzle 9/10/26
As new as the world once was to me
The present remains an unsolved mystery
The more I know and learn
I only experience frustration and concern
The way things aught to be
Never seems to become a reality
Losers always seem to win
While the righteous become disillusioned and sin
My hope for the future remains diminished
Because life will make less sense when it’s finally finished!
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84’ Chevy Cavalier & Diethyl Ether
We had a Chevy Cavalier back when I was a kid
Each morning to get it started, this is what I did
My older brother would turn the key and pray to our savior
While I sprayed ‘Spray Start’ directly into the carburetor!
Diethyl Ether is highly flammable and toxic, but it would also start the motor!
I always enjoyed its sweet yet pungent odor
It was used as a general anesthetic for surgeries way back in 1846
Whenever the wind caught some of its mist
I’d just close my eyes and inhale a big whiff!
The same stuff they poured onto rags to knock out folks
In the movies and on TV shows, but maybe that was just a hoax?
It just gave me a little buzz, early in the a.m.
Laughing at lyrics of the pledge of allegiance, so I refused to say them!
I was so hungry by lunch, that I&rs... |
We all share the same water with everything that has ever lived!
Dinosaurs saliva, even the water that Jesus turned into wine
Has been recycled so often throughout time
That it has been both yours and mine
Blood, sweat, tears, and other liquids of each kind
How can we be certain where all that water went?
A glass of water has ten thousand billion billion molecules, so the odds are 100 percent!
That a little bit of water that everyone in history has every sipped
Has been shared with every living creature (present past, and future) on earth, ain’t that a trip!
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How does humanity differ from other animals?
Beyond opposable thumbs and our big brains
We are just story tellers and problem solvers!
Folks who just thought about something and tried to do it!
And talked to other people about what we wanted to do, until we did figured it out!
Reading, writing, and repeating history
These crazy ideas helped our ancestors crawl out of their swamps, caves, and jungles
To create Civilization, religion, technology, education, culture, and art!
It’s all just one big story!
The first someone told somebody a crazy idea
Then they actually did it, and even if they failed or succeeded
Other people would try it too (or not!)
With all of humanity’s flaws, our ‘superpower’ is the ability to tell (and listen to) stories over and over again
We’re addicted to it
Humanity’s narrative
The boxes and labels that define ... |
50 Years in 5 decades
I never thought I’d be young forever
As everyone gets older
The months just slip by
All that I knew has changed
People, information, and the places all evolved
My daughter asked me what a fax machine was today!
We had one back when she was little
She didn’t remember, but I showed her how it worked
As I faxed a copy of her shot record to her doctor
So that she could go to summer camp
She’s too old for camp now
I’ll teach her how to drive my car next month
I was just washing her bottles 15 years ago!
When I was 35
Now I’m 50
Back then, Obama was president
Now Trump is!
If I could speak with the 35 year old me now
I’m not sure what I’d even say!
Listen more, work less, enjoy the little moments?
Probably the same advice a 65 year old me would tell the 50 year old me!
When I was ten, it was 198... |
Like every uncountable star
All the lights in the sky
Can you believe that they all will just die?
We are cursed and blessed with this…
As our own light will too be extinguished
Somehow you and I were wished into existence!
I don’t know how, but for a moment, we just are
And soon we won’t be, like every uncountable star
Lights once shining bright
Burning through time, across the void of night
Cosmic graves that the future may soon see
Or ignore, and perhaps replace me
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No ‘Trump Account’ for my kid!
$1k free in college savings from the government...
Why does Trumpelstiltskin occupy my mind free from rent?
Tainted with Cadet Bone Spurs’ last name
This college savings plan idea still feels like a stain
A life and career built on lies, racism and false fame
Another con?
Another grift, dammit don!
Years from now, will she frown or smile?
When compound interest yields a modest money pile
Should she benefit from this blood money?
Should I lie, ‘I did the best that I could, honey?’
If I don’t invest, she’ll be thousands behind her MAGA peers
And we’ll be deep in debt for dozens of years
The whole system is fixed
If I do do it, Mango Mussolini wins again, get the gist?
The system seems to benefit the mostly affluent and white
There have never been laws to legislate their entire life
George Washington didn’t need to register to vo... |
Chipotle Napkins
Ordered a bowl and some chips
Passed on the cheese and the dips
Ordered in person, you know, so they get it right!
Man, Imma sleep so good tonight!
Picked up a fork, then looked to my left and my right
Grabbed a stack of Chipotle napkins and got out of sight!
Grab and pack em
Wipe and dab em
Brown napkin, multi-purpose
Good on every surface!
On the highway, I cracked open a cola
When it exploded all over the windshield, thought my life was over!
It must have been shaken or dropped, but I didn’t stress
I grabbed a wad of Chipotle napkins, then caught my breath
Quickly wiped a circle clear, so I could pull over
My interior’s ruined, but at least I’ll see another year older!
Grab and pack em
Wipe and dab em
Brown napkin, multi-purpose&... |
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