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Grumpy Old Man

Love comes in all shapes and sizes – Thank God! Myself having evolved in some rather, undesirable directions... But what is the same anymore? Environmentalists say, not the sky! Not the seas! (Seagulls flying off with bees to who knows where?) As those wide-open spaces – gone! Concrete and steel having replaced colorfully tinted rural faces, with grimacing gray features – tenements rabid with crime and moral filth...desperately in need of far more heavenly graces – or, at the least, the lofty illusions pearl-necklaced TV Moms once gave us. Libraries, the sacred cloisters of of enchanted places and mystical dreams, no longer bearing, at the least informative fruits for deliberative minds; such institutions polluted with Liberal Politics, personal greed coupled with insane hunger for for power over more docile others, a hollowing of the human soul leaving a bitter emptiness and disconnect where once thrived the fertile seeds of cooperative living... So, what is the new normal? Hell if I know! Politicians speaking out of both sides of elongated, medically enhanced lying mouths – technically new? Educators enunciating with their backsides – but now their pant’s fully down, Punctuating a Marxist agenda, their transforming goals openly on display -- perhaps for them, a new honesty? College students confused as to which way to turn in bed – enough to confound the most flexible contortionist…. Thank God for alcohol!

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Date: 11/15/2020 2:38:00 PM
A wonderful grumpy diatribe on well deserved targets. Well said! Joe.
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Joe Dimino
Date: 11/19/2020 5:04:00 AM
Thank you, Geoffrey; have a beautiful day my friend!!
Date: 10/14/2020 9:32:00 AM
A terrific write and A Fav from this Poetess. Love the educators section best! Glad I stopped decades ago. Children were a delight. I could never teach the horse hockey that is taught in some places now. Hugs, Prince de Mino.!!!!? Pangie xx
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 10/28/2020 1:14:00 PM
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Panagiota Romios
Date: 10/28/2020 1:13:00 PM
Back to mark this as a FAv. So many great lines in here! Don't fret two comments. You and I know why. That last paragraph is too true. Imagine primary kids being taught to question their sexuality. I am nutty enough as is. I'd be licked up if I were taught in elementary school, that I might be a boy? God help kids.... Pangie xx
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Joe Dimino
Date: 10/14/2020 10:10:00 AM
Hi Pangie; thank you. Ila, my wife, is a teacher as well. Art and Music her majors. She says the same thing you do. Blessings my friend!
Date: 10/14/2020 7:13:00 AM
Sometimes it is better to switch off, but that can be difficult... Nice to see your posting Joe and dont drink too much of that alcohol..
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Joe Dimino
Date: 10/14/2020 10:14:00 AM
Hi Si; it is tempting...but I am too old and wise to be entirely stupid. I guess, it is sort of like, I have spent a lifetime learning to live with the Devil I know -- and Ill be damned if I will compromise with a new one:) Blessings my friend. Oh, I recently posted a Halloween short story. You may enjoy reading it. It's a fun story I think.

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