scrubs & knobs
in the morning in small-town Texas
some kids arrived before grade school
I don’t know what they did with the girls
but the boys played scrub
to keep out of mischief
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Author: admindavid
We face an Age of Dis-con-tin-uity
automatons maintaining
the automatons maintaining
the automatons doing the job
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die unmögliche bild
“Our memory is so unreliable – sometimes what we see might as well be the future.” …
How like life it is!
now that I have had my second hole-in-one
now that I have had a week to think on it
a cold, wet, winter week in the hill country
when I did not play again
even tho’ I’m bustin’ to get out again
and make another ace
even tho’ my other’n was 20 years ago
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contra impudentem nimia ingenuitas stulta est
your old-fashioned manners’re become obsolete
your petty concerns don’t matter anymore
your high-minded ideals no longer compete
– the annals of forgotten lore
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the world is a comedy tho those that think, a tragedy to those that feel
not for nuthin’, today, 2/11/2020, the prosecutors of Roger Stone resigned over interference from the administration . . . …
from now on you cannot say “I did not know”
From now on you cannot say “I did not know”,
oh, no! you cannot act as if it does not show,
you cannot pretend ever-y-thing is normal,
‘a little less formal
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Rupi Kaur would go “here”
a) if what she wrote were not total crap, or,
b) if Poetry Org wasn’t a bunch of insular, naval-gazing dweebs . . .
perhaps, then, a demonstration that the Red Stripe is not an universal panacea …
the Red Stripe
the red stripe is not (is not, only) a beer, but a fundamental aspect of ART 101, sez Mrs . . . somewhat ominously, she explained that if an art project seems inadequate, or ‘in trouble’ splashing a red-stripe across it may rescue it from oblivion . . . if only it were true in real life . . . …
word o’the day – bagelling
bagelling Gauff in the final set. …