Monday, July 25, 2022

Precisely . . .


. . . why this should NOT be!

(from https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-2024-criminal-probes-jan6-1384379/) 
". . . In recent months, Trump has made clear to associates that the legal protections of occupying the Oval Office are front-of-mind for him, four people with knowledge of the situation tell Rolling Stone. . . Trump has “spoken about how when you are the president of the United States, it is tough for politically motivated prosecutors to ‘get to you,” says one of the sources, who has discussed the issue with Trump this summer. “He says when [not if] he is president again, a new Republican administration will put a stop to the [Justice Department] investigation that he views as the Biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges — or even put him and his people in prison.” . . . "
 

Baggage

from the newly-released album GRAINS
 


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Sunday, July 24, 2022

Kismet . . .

 

What do you want?
What do you need from me?
What makes you happy?
What makes you tick?
All these questions
I ask.
You respond-

Ignore me,
Ignore me
And I won’t come back
No more you’ll see.
Implore me,
Implore me, 
I badly need
Incentive to
Stay here.

How long has this
Feeling been on your mind?
Has it consumed you?
I never knew
Just how needy
You were.
Then you said-

Sometimes it seems
There are things 
Right in front of your own face,
Not always easy to recognize.
Then comes the choice
Everyone must face up to.
What are you there for?
Just for you, for myself, or for both of us?

What do I need?
What do I want from you
To make me happy?
Is there a trick
That I’m failing to see?
I need to know.

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Saturday, July 23, 2022

Friday, July 22, 2022

Certainly Not . . .


It won’t happen.
Turmoil’s not round the bend for us.
All controls are in place;
Neat in their space

See the keeper’s
Keeping vigilant watch
Through a window obscured.
This I assure.

It just can’t
Happen here.

No one saw it 
Sneaking up round the corner. Was
Like a thief in the night
Without a fight.

Quite the artist.
Candy-coating what he’s saying
For his own selfish means. 
That’s how he leans.

Advocate progressive-sounding ideas.
Tell the people what they want to hear.

There’s no hiding
Dissatisfaction you feel. 
Keeps on burning inside.
Still you abide.



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Thursday, July 21, 2022

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Reel . . .

-life . . . 

(real-life [text] conversations, continued)
#1 - So the Os are in Chicago playing the Cubs. Last time they were there was in 2014. That's when we were there! That was a great trip, in spite of the fact that we had to leave the game early because we had plans later in the evening (and the game was delayed due to weather - a bizarre snow squall! Remember that?!
#2 - I do. Also Brian Matsuz and Ubaldo Jimenez both snubbed me when I asked them for autographs during the rain delay. And now they're both outta baseball, so that's what happens!!!
#1 - They got their just desserts!
#3 - Yeah!
#4 - Ziing!
#5 - What they said.
#2 - They weren't even doing anything when I politely asked. The two of em were just sittin around the dugout during the rain delay, finger popping each otha's assholes!
#4 - That seems to be a frequent past time of people you don't like. 
#2 - (#1 and 5, that last part is a quote from 21 Jump Street, so you can't be offended, just fyi)
#1 - No problem. 
#5 - What #2 should have said, "I've come all the way from Baltimore to see your sorry asses play baseball. We PAID to be here. YOU are getting paid (LOTS) to be here. You can't even get those sorry asses off that bench to scribble on a baseball for me? . . . WELL, EXCUUUUUUUSSSSSE MEEE!" There. I feel better. 
#4 - I bet they could be contacted online somehow. . . or if we find their addresses we could sent them exotic animal feces. 
#5 - Nah. 
#4 - That's fine, just tweet at em then.
#5 - Tweet tweet. 
#2 - Had some excellent pizza in chi town too tho.  And remember when #3's pants got stuck in the doorway of the el?!?! Classic!! I knew you'd remember that thing with #3's pants #5. 
#5 - Ummm? Hey #3 . . . 
#3 - Yup?
#2 - #3 also got stuck in your hotel room toilet. 
#3 - I probably could have been convinced otherwise if everyone got on board, but no I don't. 
The toilet thing 100% happened though. 
#5 - That, I remember. 
#4 - Well, who doesn't do that accidentally at least once a week?
#1 - Too funny!!
#5 - Twice a week for me.




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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Competition . . .

. . . is highly overrated

(from Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of American by Kurt Andersen)
". . . When I was a little kid whenever we had to play musical chairs in school or at birthday parties, I never enjoyed it. I hated the tense seconds of waiting for each drop of the needle onto the record. Musical chairs made me anxious and made everyone manic and delivered a nasty set of lessons - life is an accelerating competition of one against all for diminishing resources, survival is just a matter of luck and a touch of brute force, and success is a momentary feeling of superiority to the losers who lose before you lose, with just one out of the ten or twenty of us a winner. . . "


Superman

from the newly-released album GRAINS


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