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The Dismal Science and the Meaning of Life

...(“Meaning of Life Merit Badge”, 2010, original oil)

The Dismal Science and the Meaning of Life

Supply and demand is as basic and Nobel a
Truth
As you can get.
If you doubt, just hold ...

The Cloisters

...
I can almost hear the
haunting monastic chants
and solemn songs, lost
between the rippling currents 
of the Hudson River.

The Cloisters stand, silent 
upon a nearby hill
stone walls and an...

Museum of my Mind

...I would make a museum of my mind
Fill these musty halls with all my people
Every girl who has walked my corridors 
To write her piece and paste it on the walls. 

Every plaque together, a mosaic...

London

...Shoreditch clung to its ruin
Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses
And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields,
The shepherds rambling onwards,
The herders with their slow-moving cat...

Holiday Greenery

...The Cloisters is a special place,
Medieval and austere,
Assembled from five monasteries
Brought from France to here.*

Within its walls are gardens,
All meticulous and neat
And to celebrate th...

Hudson River Revival

...
"Lake Tear in the Clouds" was an indescribably pretty scene
Lewis Pugh hiked in the rain; clouds lifted, he felt serene.
He dove in, swam through hemlock, maple, ash and birch
An adventure start...

Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed

...Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed

made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...

to stave off experiencing get...

Soul Mirror Eyes

... 
Written: January 07, 2024
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eyes are soul gates      even in disguise      they do not lie
visual cues that transcend verba...

Ancient Books

...Today I saw some ancient books,
Five hundred plus years old,
With illustrations brightly hued
And accented in gold.

Calligraphied in perfect print,
They really blew my mind,
Surviving all the...

Mythical

..."Mythical creatures  arise in a labyrinth flight round a cloisters, 
a crown of flowers and berries they wear in fairyland." Quote by Poet 

Stars shiver in the laden cold with the moo...

Months Without An R

...A Florida man who died eating oysters
Would have been better served by those from the cloisters.
It seems that these shuckers were tainted with drugs,
And also with infamous warm-water bugs.
If y...

Beyond the West Window

...“The sounds of Earth is the music of my soul”


           I remember the valley rolled with thunder 
             A section of tenors echoed from above 
          The sky was shredded, by forke...

Still Dithering With Hesitation On Brink of Abysmal Precipice I

...Infinite pitch black void zoomed,
I vacillated then pitched headlong
(head and knobby knees, over heels)
where skeletons in shuttered closets roomed,
and antithesis of freedom loomed
large (thin...

The Cathedral

...The Cathedral

	It rose from where the elders once had stood
	And slowly grew to what we see today,
	Its towers, reaching upwards, stand alone
	To show the way our destiny might lay.
	Great clo...

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 sea...

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