Category Archives: Today’s News



Flora and Fauna

It’s mid-July;
The lotus plants
Burst into bloom.
Joan’s golden yarrows
Catch the eye
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Posted in Beauty, Death, Religion, Today's News, Uncategorized, War

Iraq Limericks

Exceptionalism’s fierce bane
Is self-esteem’s need to ordain
What’s best for all others,
Instead of their druthers,
And ends by inflicting fierce pain.
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Posted in Politics, Today's News, Vanity, War

Doomed

Face it! We’re doomed! The gas we need to breathe—
That damned atmosphere—is drowning in filth.
The filth lets heat in, prevents its leaving
Melts the ice, messes the weather, kills wealth,
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Posted in Animals, Death, Today's News, Wisdom

The TV News

Shmoozin’ with my friends down at Venice beach—
Lamenting the daily news, the shambles
Of Syria, the wealth-sucking leeches
Of Wall Street, the poisoned thorny brambles
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Posted in Politics, Religion, Today's News, War

Real Life

I take a hundred pills each week
I’m not sure why I do it
It’s not a prolonged life I seek
I’ve lived too long, so screw it.
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Posted in Aging, Today's News, Wisdom

How?

I sit here, determined to write
Some lyric verse
Celebrating joy
With, perhaps, a comic lilt.
I squeeze my brain
To press out juice
Sweet with cheer,
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Posted in Death, Greed, Pain, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Today's News, War