“What do you see?”
A simple inquiry
requiring
A not so simple response
For I do not see
With my eyes alone
They are but a portal
To the insanity
Of a mind’s interpretation
A wilting flower
Lying beside a sleeping kitten
Perhaps a subtler inquest
“what does a painting stir in you?”
And “why”…”How”
Does a wilting flower
Lying beside a sleeping kitten
Reach through crusted paint
To hold you spellbound
shelter cat rescued
watched as his sad eyes brightened ~
a fur ever home
NBC MUTE BOO
MANY VIEWERS HAD NO CLUE
BUT JD VANCE KNEW
We were cruising along on the Norfolk Broads
One bright September's day.
When we moored up in Wroxham
A Swan popped up his head to say
"Beak a boo! Beak a boo!
Do you have a crumb or two?
We like to greet each stopping crew
And we see that you are new."
When he paused to look at us
We all broke in to fits of laughter.
Just before he bowed back down again,
Nana snapped a shot to enjoy after.
"Beak a boo, Pugwash and crew,
It's a joy to meet you too!
My family and friends are here too.
Will we meet again? I hope we do!"
Such memories with the ones we love
Can help us to cope when they have to go.
The cover of this very book
Is a drawing of my Nan's photo.
Night creepers, scattered and unsheltered
On gelid, squiggled grounds litted by moonlight and painted
Voracious appetite of the long told-tale of suckers
Esurient schemiels relishing, twitching on leaves and trees of dream-catchers
Mimicking voices of beasts in echoing bills
Bereaving the lost ark of blaring mills
Emblems etched on walls and covered stones
Roving on wheels and winds of collar bones
Some Winners Try
And Try And Try...
Some Winners Don’t.
Some Winners Lose
Their Pic-A-Nic
Baskets By Default.
Some Winners Aren’t Real.
Happiness Is How You Feel.
Smooch.
-Gray Squirrel
11-09-2025
'Tis the season of the spooks!
Don't look into dark corners or nooks.
Laughing pumpkins and witchy hats,
Dancing brooms and flying bats.
Evening teas with Casper and Frankenstein,
Don't look under the bed once the clock strikes nine!
People Have
Things Different
Than You Do...
BECAUSE
They Have
Something
You Don’t!
'Boo-Boo.'
-Gray Squirrel
10-22-2025
Today’s the U.S. Open Final
Taking place in Queens,
With Alcaraz and Sinner
Front and center on our screens.
We’ve been told the prez will be on hand
And, while the anthem plays,
All the cameras will be focused
On the bluster he displays.
Yet to show how things have changed,
A memo managed to get sent
To the broadcast booths of every station
Brooking no dissent –
No booing of the U.S. king
Should make it on the air.
If such disruptions do get shown,
Well, broadcasters, beware!
This censorship just reinforces
How low we have sunk.
Our former democratic values
Certainly have shrunk.
Oh, Chicken Boo,
who are you
in your inadequate disguise?
You’re a chicken, what a surprise!
dogs, monkeys, and mouses when they see the tiger, they all hiss and boo
AI Boo Boo
“Eh? I Boo-Boo?”
Charm Disguises Evil
It Conceals It;
Doesn’t Heal It.
Evil Has No
Feelings, It Has
Nothing To Be
Hurt.
Fabrication Is Wove
With Threads Of
Finer Fabrication;
With Illusion Left
Deluded At It's Core.
Natural Creation
Expands With
Infinite Unique
Beauty Beyond
All Charming
Comprehension.
Into Every
Concealed
(Or Un-Concealed,)
Real Formed
Dimension!
***
AI Can Be
Very Very Very Very
Pretty, Cutie-Pie!
But:
Remember Why.
-Gray Squirrel
06-30-2025
For the very first time in my whole damn life
Things are sailing along tickety boo
Don't ever remember a time quite like this
On top of the world cuz of you
You've turned my world all topsy turvy
Loving it, as happy as it gets
Been sailing along on cloud number nine
Haven't quite gotten over it yet
Probably never will and why would I want to
It's the greatest feeling known to man
This tickety boo feeling, this feeling of love
There's nothing to match this élan
If you think it's a great new formula of mine
I'd simply say look in your heart
Everyone possesses this ability to find love
The heart's the best place to start
Oh Boo Hoo
I'm Fairly Healthy
And Alive And
Retired (For Awhile Now.)
I Really Miss Hating
Mondays
So Much.
(But I Still Know What It's Like.)
-Gray Squirrel
05-19-2025
Chee chee chee chee
De boo de boo de boo
Swee swee swee
Tree tree tree
Bru bru bru
De boo de boo de boo
Song of a songbird I heard today
Which one is it?
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