Success
is no more emails
Not one
throughout the day
No beeps
and no vibrations
to clutter up
the quay
My sails are up
the winds are fair
distractions
far abeam
No G.P.S.
or radar
To chart
— this sailor’s dream
(Annapolis To Bermuda: August, 2005)
Fool Them Once — Fool Them Twice
Oh Bernie, Bernie
as crooked
thou art
Thy wife
more dishonest
filling up thy cart
A noble pair
thoust do
protest
Within
thy harvest
and monied chest
To hide among
a lost
enclave
With fortunes
promise
most illy made
Behind thy mask
corruption
flames
Thy hoax
to bear
— eternal shame
(The New Room: July, 2026)
Glenn Campbell sang of Wichita
Trini Lopez of Kansas City
Otis Redding crooned of Sausalito, CA
Sittin’ on the dock of a bay
Chicago was Sinatra’s kind of town
He belted out the refrain
Guthrie’s ‘City of New Orleans’
Turned out be an Illinois train
So why don’t they sing of Annapolis!
It rhymes with Minneapolis and Indianapolis
And fifty-four astronauts graduated the Naval Academy
~ Updating ‘Anchors Aweigh’ would gladden me
64, Many More for Wren
We belatedly sing,
Uncork a bottle of wine,
For Jen “Teetotaling”,
We imbibe Jen Joy sunshine!
Annapolis is gaining as less “NYing”,
Jen Wren for out loud “Whinin’”,
Rick & you go out dining,
Listen to music that’s fine,
On the Bay, enjoy sailing,
To Darby, Rickie & Sean be benign,
Worse than a NY storm is taxi hailing,
Dress to the 9’s, with Rick align,
Parachuting, Mountain scaling,
64 is only the beginnin’,
Know when tight roping,
C# or B Flat endnin’,
Light a candle, Offkey singing,
Barbara & I Luv Yah without margin!
Drowning in whisky,
drunkard of time
Toasting the losers
—dying unrhymed
(McGarvey’s Saloon-Annapolis: June, 2022)
Death Met In a Gazette
There are times when death may be met;
Had been one of oldest that is a Gazette;
News supplying;
Crying and dying,
And newspaper is filled with much regret.
Jim Horn
That was a horrible experience for Annapolis
area.
A Trump and Price Quote
What Trump had exposed
Erupted into eloquent
Such stupidity.
I will not deny
That I never did say that
Again and again.
Something similar to a quote
made by Annapolis graduate
Price. He has started his own
version of the Price Is Right
Show which seems to show
quite frequently now a days.
If I remember
Correctly it seems to me
Two negatives make a positive.
Jim Horn
As in all beginnings
no matter how small,
—lies implicit the end
As night to follow, days
promise is kept,
—and the circle is closed
(Annapolis Maryland: February, 2003)
Longing for the sound of your voice
if just to say hello, how are you
it's been awhile, perhaps to long
How have you been feeling, better I hope
how's my brother? I'll bet he's getting big
I'll bet he's growing into a fine young man
How's the weather? It's been rainy here
warm too, the humidity is up but not as bad
as it was in Florida though, I remember that
What's that? he wants to go to Annapolis or
West Point from High School, oh and
he will be in JROTC in High School 4 years
Your feeling better you say? Stronger by the day
working out three days a week, sounds good
your gaining weight, but it's muscle not fat.
Well gotta go, I'll call you!
Estranged
At Annapolis, Admiral Rictameter had tried to teach us the martial art kick known
as the Rondeau. When he became impatient, he tried to rondeau redouble the
lesson. That turned out to be a Sapphic Stanza disaster, as we were all listening
to a Neil Sedoka record. I was senryu about having spilt the baby Sestina, and
Sijo, our trained puppy, decided his tail rhymed with what was than-Bauk. I
thought the whole thing too triolet, and likely to cause tybuvim, and I did not want
to be the one who was considered the Villanelle.
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