Category Archives: Vanity



Blondie (1/29/13)

Little Elmo, Bumstead’s grade school neighbor,
Displays a wisdom way beyond his years.
While Dagwood, wide-eyed, listens to his lore,
Elmo reveals our major source of tears.
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Posted in Lust, Vanity, Who Knows?, Wisdom

Humanity

They hunted, gathered, somehow stayed alive
They lived in caves, began resenting pain,
Evolved somewhat and grew a larger brain—
To satisfy an itch, learned how to wive.
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Posted in Death, Illusion, Pain, Religion, Vanity, Wisdom

Haiku—Adam Lanza: Newtown, CT, 12/14/12

Awkward, bright, friendless,
Seething, seething his whole life.
Now let others seethe.
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Posted in Death, Pain, Vanity

Pentimento

From time to time you run across a word
That yearns to be enpoemed; a lyric chime,
It’s force enhanced (although it’s rarely heard)
By bouncing rhythm and internal rhyme.
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Posted in Aging, Beauty, Vanity, Wisdom

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

Though I’ve never liked his politics, Don,
Down at the paddle tennis courts, is not
The worst of men. The dogs adore him, conned
By biscuit treats he issues on the spot!
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Posted in Affluence, Local Color, Politics, Vanity

Down At The Paddle Tennis Court: Andrea A.

Plainly, we’re surrounded. Nothing escapes,
No matter how benign. For loving words
(The flesh of poetry) generate japes,
Create expectations wholly absurd!
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Posted in Beauty, Friends, Local Color, Poetry (What is it?), Vanity