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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

TOO BIG TO FAIL

"The second tower has collapsed" - Tom Brokaw Where just now steel and concrete were, an empty shape of smoke, then air. Where just now people - people! - were, a void a millisecond old, a sudden pitch unthinkable into the very mouth of hell! And somewhere someone laughed, believed that God was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 10, 2012

HARDWIRED

Jiggle jogger's pony tail behind a perky baseball hat! Her legs as tanned and slender-turned, tapered down from what must be a firmly packed Elysium... Pay attention to your driving! Sigh... I'll never get the hang of being 78. Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 9, 2012

THE RECKLESS DRIVER - HAIKU DEFINITION # 6*

im-ma-TU-ri-ty: "I am not responsible. YOU are for the two of us." I know, so we live. Actually, a haiku "sandwich" - 5-7-7-5 Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 8, 2012

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, We're All in This Together

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you signed onto Blogit just like me: to let some other poets read some poem that you've just created? To write a poem's often hard - the words don't always come up right. You tinker till you think it's good, then see if others think the same. Well, that's, you know,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 7, 2012

HUDSON RIVER PALISADES - an Unfenced Overlook

I know I've inched a tad too close because my groin contracts in fright, my fearful breath takes in a hitch: the cliff edge simply vanishes, falls off sheer and final down and down without a pause and disappears in brush and rubble down so far the stomach learns just how far too far down can be...... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

THE WEARY HIKER

I didn't know it at the time, but when I started out this morning, I was rolling out a yarn ball down the hill and through the bushes, past the rocks and over streams - it almost got away from me - until the final strand was left. The time had come to turn around, re-wind the ball I'd started with;... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

THE SONG OF THE TECH-WIMP

I went to Staples for a cell phone, came out with a freakin' Droid! (I felt so cool just skidding icons underneath my moving thumb!!!) Now, every time I use it merely as a phonebooth in my pocket, it must groan in Droidsome boredom - Rolls Royce used to cart potatoes! "Airplane Mode?" A mystery. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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THE SONG OF THE TECH-WIMP

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Monday, September 3, 2012

BLUES MAN

Close your eyes and listen how he can make his tenor sax honk just like a crosstown taxi snarl a Bed Stuy angry song wail the way a widow wails rasp my hoarse and needy lust tell of subway platforms empty, lonely, 2 AM Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

TAMPA CONVENTION 2012: THE CHAIR SPEAKS ( a haiku)

Will someone here please make Clint Eastwood's day? Maybe he'll just go away. NOTE - For the benefit of anyone who hasn't seen or heard about it yet, Clint Eastwood's speech before the Republican National Convention last week involved a very bizarre bit of make-believe that didn't go over very well... Sign in to see full entry.

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