Saw it coming
Started running
Through woods
As fast as I could
Beautiful mirage arrived
Not going to die
Equipped with answers
From club dancers
"Do not fear
I have a long neck beer"
I watched her work
Popped the bubbly cork
After expressing wedding vows
Complementing our moonlight howls
I awoke and wiped moon dust from my eyes.
Kissed an ancient tabby cat in the morning light.
The sun found the slats in between his lives.
Nine A.M I gathered just enough ambition.
To peel an orange and crack an egg.
Went outside to water withering pansy faces.
They whispered to me that I was very late.
It hadn't rained for 9 1/2 days.
When I was young, they spoke of another ice age.
Now they say the planets are quickly burning away.
Who are "the they" anyway?
I stared into the mailbox's mouth.
It's going to be a fine day. No bills popped out.
I waved to the gray-faced neighbor.
He arthritically waved back.
He's got one foot in the grave.
I'm amused by his smiling butt crack.
I went back inside just before I burned.
Rid the house of egg bits and cat turds.
Tabby tap-danced around my grey turkey legs.
It was about time for an old man's nap.
Dreaming of tabby cats, nuclear annihilation
and a red-haired siren that never came back.
kevin 3m
Confirmation
Market Economics
In short
To main street beside the hour
What hour is California obstruction bill arrival?
Poor legislature end time?
Haven't recalled assembly from governor newsom of California
Currently assembled in fraud
Lien upon Senate in time?
Lien upon Senate in time?
#aoc #elizabethwarren #berniesanders #realdonaldtrump #cagovernor #asmirwin #repbrownley #mikeytaylor #mayorofla
Treasury department in outside hall
Treasury department in outside hall
#nytimes #latimes #tonybiasotti #washingtonpost #theatlantic #repcarbajal #repjasmine #congressmansherman #nyse #nasdaq
nyse #nasdaq
#realdonaldtrump #berniesanders #aoc #elizabethwarren #asmirwin #mikeytaylor #mayorofla
mayorofla
#nypd #lapdhq #lapdcentral #vcpublicdefender #venturapolice #vcsheriff #sbcpubdef #iamwesmoore
'And now Israel', so let's pay attention
for God calls His people to listen
with God's authority comes His word
everything's important for nothing is missing
His first requirement is to fear the Lord
live with holy reverence to God alone
be holy yourself obeying His word
listen well for He is your chief cornerstone
Next, learn to walk in all His ways
this means all that God says to do
take heed to obey Him at all times
be fully committed to God as brand-new
Loving God is so essential
learn well all He's done for you
see afresh how Jesus died in your place
taking your sin at the cross the Bible says
Finally, serve God with all you have
giving your full heart and soul
use your God-given gifts for Him alone
making His pleasure your heavenly goal
(“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,)
Deuteronomy 10: 12 (ESV)
An available
oxygen is essential
for animal life.
Surplus to requirement
My wife was her aunt a lovely woman of forty-four,
then she divorced her husband a man with a title,
a baron, because she felt bored by him – he was
tedious all style and a small brain- she took a
course and got a medical job that brought her far and
wide, in the world and she also got a new man and
we were happy for her, she was approaching middle
age entitled to some happiness
She stopped ringing us and when my wife rang her
she was always busy, she disappeared from view
and the silence became a chasm on unsaid words
But we know she is doing well has friends her age.
I said to my wife last time we saw her she looked
so remote we had become too old for her
painted in obvious requirement
i once again become my own eraser
now here i am in the dry deluge of my own wilted tears
knowing that this one is different
i tap the shoulder of inevitable change and tell her that i am officially calling it a day
painted in obvious requirement
i once again become my own set of handcuffs
trapped as usual in the monotonous timidity of my own isolationist self
realizing that this time is indeed final
i tap the shoulder of inevitable change and tell her that i am officially throwing in the towel
painted in obvious requirement
i once again become my own end result of loneliness
bewildered and unseen....locked away in my makeshift purgatory
accepting the return of a fate whose persistence i put on the backburner
i tap the shoulder of inevitable change and tell her that i am going nowhere and am forever here to stay
Confidence is shattered
Feels like nothing else matters
When you feel so small
I used to be up high
I stood so tall,
Even though on the outside I was small
I used to stand six feet tall
Life felt great,
Why did I have to fall?
It wasn't just a trip
Or even a little stumble;
It was as if I had fallen down a well,
A well so deep they could of called it hell
When you threw rocks in it not a sound would come out
When did this sadness start?
I don’t even understand what it is about
So I lay on the ground,
Feeling empty inside yet again
It hurts too much to pretend
I miss being sane,
When will the bugs crawl out of my brain?
So many questions, so few answers at all
I miss when I was six feet fall
Now I just feel, oh so very small
Surplus of Requirement
m/s “Kari” rode the seas like a swan, only when the most evil waves of
the Atlantic ocean hit, did she flap her wings. Why was it she was crewed
by harbour dregs? Men who callously walked on her deck and were ready
to leave her at the next port of call, for booze, cigarette and whores?
Often she had to sail understaffed because her crew had succumbed to
the bleak pleasure of a harbour bar. We officers loved her, even though
for most of us she was the last chance before being barred and losing our
tickets, walk the shores and beg a shipping clerk for a opening.
She carried everything in her hull, trucks, tanks, jeeps and even hats for
some South American dictator’s wife. Then she was sold to Bangladesh
too old and cumbersome the owner said, it was all about container ship,
in and out of harbours, quickly. In Hatiya the captain cried his home was
being dismantled in front of his eyes. For us too it was the bitter end, old
and grizzled, no one needs a sailor who thinks of his ship as home.
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