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Poem to Follow
Yesterday I attended a military funeral, my first, and the last one for the deceased, an Air Force Lt. Col, ret, who lived into his late 80’s, an old friend of my wife’s family, father to her best friend in childhood, a girl who died around age 9. Although he reportedly had anger issues, and… More »
Nicities Of Urban Life
Today, walking to lunch, I found a note on my car excoriating me for not pulling up two feet closer to the crosswalk, making a bigger space for the sizable SUV that had wedged itself behind me. The second page of the double-layered chartreuse post-its offered up only the word Jerk! I felt guilty. Then… More »
Character As Destiny
It’s kind of a truism that serious poets, those who want to get somewhere, write poems every day. Deep down I’ve bought in, same way I still believe Mother was right when she declared, repeatedly, I was going to wind up a bum in the gutter. I can go there easily: a trickle of water… More »
World’s Greatest Poet
Fake it till you make it. (And after that, why change a winning formula?) Such is the rationale for advertising, and if you’re any kind of entrepreneur at all, whether, say, in health care or scribbling, the economics shout, Advertise! Hence this blog. To impress you. And by impressing you to get ahead. Among… More »