Category Archives: Today’s News



Fervor

A courageous Muslim girl,
Malala Yousafzai, fourteen,
Was shot in the head
Because she went to school.
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Posted in Inspiration, Religion, Today's News

Aurora, Colorado: July 20, 2012

Our first delight,
Doubtless,
Is mother’s flowing teat.
Then building blocks,
Candy bars,
Parental praise.
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Posted in Conformity, Death, Pain, Today's News

A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Nature of Poetry

What is it that a poem’s supposed to do?
More, surely, than display the poet’s wit,
Project the pain of poets’ pious rue,
Or plump the bulky texts for English lit.
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Posted in Death, Lust, Poetry (What is it?), Today's News

Progress

In olden times
You stabbed a man
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Posted in Death, Today's News, War

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

Occasional Verse: Republican Presidential Primary Election, 2012

Alas, it’s come to this for Pimp-Hat Cain,
That would-be president. His handlers groan—
Beset, no doubt, with angst, with writhing pain
Inflamed by that unleashed testosterone.
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Posted in Lust, Politics, Today's News