This is a sincere prayer thrown out to the Self-Aware Universe that a machine designed only to injure or kill or threaten be made obsolete. My mother said many times “It never hurts to ask.”

This is a sincere prayer thrown out to the Self-Aware Universe that a machine designed only to injure or kill or threaten be made obsolete. My mother said many times “It never hurts to ask.”

It starts with Growing things, Friends.


a song of departure
the staff eased
his passing with
gentle low voices
and therethere smiles. He emerged
from coma briefly and he & his wife
confessed & forgave. She held
his hand as he delicately slowed to a stop.
I confess (or reconfess; my old brain is getting repetitive): I have voyeuristic tendencies. Left to my base desires, I would be a blatant Looky-Lou. Instead, I am a discreet Looky-Lou–certainly more discreet than what you see when you do an image search on Ogling, which I did as part of research for this page.
People like to watch, but people also like to be civilized. It is a tug-of-war.
Here are the words to the double acrostic. NOTE: in my younger days I pronounced it OH-gulled. I now pronounce it AH-gulled.
hooded glances may disturb as much as cast or stye
aspirations and implied intent provide the why
wanton feral human WANTING makes a mind to boggle
knowledge of the Ogle-force demonds that IT be ogled