first there is a need to breathe
add some food and water
love the world and stop the seethe
smile and quell the slaughter
..
energy makes crop or bomb
rumor mills may snake a brain
snowflakes gather with aplomb
avalanching from the strain
on a mission to live life to the fullest
this morning anyway
i walked 2,379 steps from my doorstep
to the ole brass rail, a sports bar and grill
and asked bar lady kristi[e] for an irish coffee
and a menu
..
the steak & eggs was tempting
but the breakfast burrito was six dollars less
and promised “spicy beef” so
breakfast burrito it was
and nice trimmings to boot
and i was fulled and filled with its generous portion
..
lots of screens with sports stuff
diverse & friendly staff and clientele
(times have changed here, i am glad to report)
fair pricing
so yeah
this day off is well launched
and i will go full from here
to fuller after a ceramics studio session
to fullest when i use my phone
and hear sweet Donna’s voice
bioscience
student union
aspiration
industry…
strict
compliance
ice horde
goon den
lockdown nation
no one free
Here is a syrupy, sappy, cartoony glimpse at romantic love. Cupid fires a barrage of love-arrows at a couple who is already kissing. Cupid gets undeserved bragging rights because the love was already there. What a devious creep Cupid can be!
true LOVE real
there’s a sleevéd heart to wear
romance comes for two to share
ultra-laved in buttered shea
eh, laissez entrer le Soleil
I don’t know what Shea Butter is, but it must be good stuff, judging from all the advertising, so I laved. Mostly I needed to rhyme a word ending with A and a word ending in L.
The last line roughly translates from the French as “What the Hell, let the sunshine in.” Cheers!
Last week, hastily I turned a lump of clay into a semblance of a bird, then wrapped it to slow its drying. When I took it out this morning I decided to finish sculpting it with no help from any tools. As ways the goal is to become a better sculptor.
The clay is firm but still has some flex to it. I was able to change the overall shape with careful squeezing compression with two hands. It was possible to remove a small amount of clay from the (unreal) tail section, making eyeballs for the lady’s head, but I then faced the challenge of affixing them, and I didn’t want to use saliva, finding the prospect literally distasteful. Luckily I had a small amount of perspiration around my temples, and I harvested as much of it as I could, and now I need a shower. 🙂
Fingernails came in handy for making curves curvier and sun shapes less ambiguous. I’m not too obsessed with perfection–Nature herself is loaded with imperfections–but it improves a work of art to reduce, if not eliminate, internal inconsistency.
Here’s bird-eyedly looking at you, Friends!
the conflicting views/and subsequent arguments/sucked the oxygen.
fluff a kerfuffle/and make feathers ruffle: a/game oafs like to play.
guess. test. revise thought./the scientific method:/anti-kerfuffle.
why do we argue/about stuff no one can prove?/it passes the time.
argumentative/representatives preen; wax/reprehensible.
Vague Point Taken
Vituperation is EXPLOSIVE–worse than TNT
And vengeance dooms a soul to drown, engulfed by churning sea
Go hunt, go fish, go kickbox, and you may make bones to break
Upstanding citizens lay low in presence of a snake
Extremist thoughts may entertain but structure cannot take the strain
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I make of this what I would, readers, friends, and invite you to do likewise.
the bank that tells us what to do
the bank’s very name tells us what to do.
it has us chasing a new car, chasing a house, chasing investment income, chasing material dreams,
all sorts.
we have been pre-approved, probably
since before we were born,
so as we drive past the blue-logoed branches,
each logo is a reminder
of our duty to pursue,
our mandate to be never content.
therefore, having money in our checking account,
and having bought that car
with help from the automotive loan personnel
or algorithm thereof,
the blue-logoed bank diminishes our wealth
each month
painlessly as possible
with an automatic withdrawal.
.
long ago chase manhattan bank
and the j. p. morgan company
found it more suitable to collide and collude
than compete.
.
jupiter pierpont morgan died more than a hundred years ago
but his acquisitive soul lives on
and we scamper at his whim.
CHB
Caress the cover
Have a look
Ah a lover
Needs a book.
Get that wordplay
In your piece
Now or Thursday
Grip/Release.
Hear a reading
And take part
Nurture seedling
Drawn with heart.
Savor stories
Bred eclectic–
O, the glories!
Ouch, the skeptic!
Keep your journals
Stuffed with notions
Tossing kernels
Onto oceans.
Reading’s fine as life itself!
Each sweet dream deserves a shelf.
One with Clay, Image and Text 