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summa: highest.

where: location.

summa where

syncopation steals the show

understanding helps us though

making waves from there to here

molding vision not to veer

apex when we persevere

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Afterword: I continue to struggle to regain my footing, both with drawing and with acrostic poetry composition. The late comic-book writer Denny O’Neil wrote a feature in some comics called “From the Den” and he always ended the column with the fine two-word mantra “Perseverance furthers.” Here’s to that sentiment, and to Mr. O’Neil’s spirit.

grumpface

on the third visit to the phone store

trying to get something done and being asked

yet again for numbers they should already have

the man’s face twisted from harmless geezer

to grumpy threat

and the customer service rep hurries

but fumbles

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but does his professional best

and now tells grumpface

it should only be another two hours

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or so

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except in rare cases

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suddenly grumpface ceases to be with a smile

thanks the man

laughs maniacally

and leaves

it is march, it’s the first/so let us now burst/right out of the sprung starting gate

and march with elan/and gusto and brawn/against all the forces of hate

to take back the senate/is vital now when it/enables this evil regime

and also the house/oust the speaker, that mouse/who has made his dictator’s eyes gleam.

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we’ll need plenty of moxie/ourselves, not a proxy/applying epoxy and salve

so let’s march and reseize/and thus cure the disease/that afflicts all we live for and have.

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Historical note: We have American casualties now, in the unauthorized war on Iran, and the blood of more than half a hundred schoolgirls is on our hands. As an American I am filled with shame and anger. We need to find our way, the TRUE American Way, again.

regime change is a tricky biz

its motivation far trickier

for the man who cannot keep his mushroom

unshuttered

is now playing with his other toys

including the lives of soldiers

and bombs and other bibi guns

playing with firepower and fire

playing like a gambler

who will not quit

until he has lost

it all

The evening ebbs/And woven webs/Are put aside for now.

Well past the crest/It’s time to rest/And dim the here and now.

You’ve taken heed/Of thoughtworddeed/And now you take a meal

With sweet and salt/And single malt/Enjoyment of the weal.

The loom’s enthreaded with the day

And warp and weft endow its play.

photo by dsa

destination: belly

three lengths of twice-cooked bacon

a brace of well-flipped eggs

no room to edge a steak in

no coffee so no dregs

two slices bread sans jelly

one bottle of kombucha

our destination: belly

with props to alphonse mucha

The place I bought my car wants to buy it back

A scheduling lady called and urged me

To bring my Soul in for appraisal

“I don’t want to sell my Soul,” I told her

But soon got a text from the dealership

“When can you bring your vehicle in?”

Wow, how aggressive!

I bantered

Asked for some info that would give me a clue

As to how much I could possibly get

“I understand your hesitation,” the next text said

And I asked to whom I was texting

“You’re texting with the AI assistant of Bill Luke Chrysler…” was the unashamed answer

Not a human being

But aggressive-car-salesman SOFTWARE

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A glimpse of the future

Chills me now

pam the nonstick coating

pam the toady blondie

pam with tommy floating

anderson, spray, bondi

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spam the meat of mystery

spackle wallflaw filler

speaker drive-in history

spica virgo’s chiller

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sparky does the radio

spartacus the spectacle

spacetime place upgrady o

specie payment vesicle