Category Archives: Today’s News



Dementia

I comb my mind for happy thoughts,
I’d like to paint them in a poem.
But ev’ry day the news is fraught
With raging hate, evincing moans.
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Posted in Aging, Pain, Politics, Today's News, War

Contemporary History: Blank Verse Musings

Arab Spring slumps into tired Summer
With Fall, menacing, prelude to Winter.
Damn! How quickly vision blurs, ripped to rags—
And costly freedom drowns in murky hate.
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Posted in Politics, Religion, Today's News, War

Dangerous Therapy

Go! Go! You cocksucking son of a bitch!
My bloody scream, involuntary, serves,
I’m sure, an evolutionary niche,
Releasing pent up stress, relaxing nerves.
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Posted in Inspiration, Sports, Today's News

A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Nature Of Sport

Juke left, then right, and tear off twenty yards;
Hit the curve ball, jump, standing, three feet up,
And straight you’re praised by all our pious bards,
Enriched by nature’s choice—selected crop.
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Posted in Sports, Today's News

Tears

I am, famously, a melancholic,
But this past week has been so brutal, seared
With tragedies that leap, hop, and frolic,
I found myself, three times, beset with tears.
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Posted in Death, Pain, Politics, Today's News, War, Wisdom

Empire

Inevitably, empires rot—
But how?
Sometimes plague
Or drought
Will do one in—
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Posted in Affluence, Greed, Today's News