Category Archives: Illusion



Manager’s Specials

Retail marketing, by nature complex,
Marshals strategies—both art and science.
When unsold merchandise begins to vex
Our vendors, technology reliance
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Posted in Aging, Greed, Illusion

Good and Evil

For the love of god
A young Sunni lad
Destroys himself
In the market place,
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Posted in Death, Illusion, Politics, Religion

Beach Feast

Melon breasts,
Inviting tresses—
Skin like peach
Lights the beach.
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Posted in Beauty, Illusion, Local Color, Lust, Vanity

Life: The Extended Sonnet

Poetry attempts portrayal; it paints—
In ordered forms—our terror, loves, our dreams.
Its synaesthetic mode swirls sense, acquaints
Our sight, sound, touch, smell, taste with textured whims.
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Posted in Illusion, Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom

Lying

Fear, after all, is multi-faceted—
Prismed glass pretending to be diamond—
Generating lies primed to cleanse the past,
Protect the present, serve as future’s pawn.
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Posted in Bullshit, Illusion, Vanity

Superbowl 46

Face it! The advertising industry
Runs the world, and this week’s hype proves my point.
Eight of each thirty minutes on TV
Demands that you succumb, consume, anoint
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Posted in Greed, Illusion, Today's News