Category Archives: Words



You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

You may not call your god Allah!
Our god’s Allah (The Merciful,
Beneficent).

Listen, you fucking infidels—
Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, War, Words

Sheesh!

Those damned psychologists have marked the cards
(And most of us deal from diminished decks),
No wonder our behavior often wrecks
Our lives—prompts vile diagnostic canards. Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit, Words

Berserker

Berserk—interesting word—from Old Norse.
A warrior with insufficient zeal
Would don a bearskin robe, kill all remorse,
Abandon his humanity, reveal Continue reading →

Posted in Lust, Today's News, Words

ER Poetry

Learned a new word yesterday–
Syn’-co-pe’.
Zippy, no?
Sounds somewhat like Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Words

Found Poetry

Quickly, I whipped out my tiny notebook—
Jotted the wholly curious exchange.
And, I confess, that “black pearl” set the hook—
Weird (from Artie), that image (passing strange!). Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry (What is it?), Words

Playwords

A tongue, like jaguars’ teeth, can bite—
And those who bleed “take umbrage.”
But if we “take,” what does he “give”—
That shadow-casting scum? Continue reading →

Posted in Words