Friday, October 9, 2026

Writ of Reality

 

Wither the concept
of absentee Justice

She used to exist
on a marble pedestal
long before we got lost in the haze
when the fog of corruption rolled in
clouding our way

Money and Power

Those pernicious serpent twins
seduced the fair maiden
then tossed her away

Now we sit in the wreckage
of a once noble notion

The battles have all been fought

Once proud banners lie tattered and charred

All that remains are the incriminating scars
covering the hard verdict of history

No appeals will be forthcoming

No reprieves to be received

Harsh Karma is in charge today

The bill for our sins have come due
and she's in a collection mood
for a dead beat country
that now has to pay




Thursday, October 8, 2026

The Great Within

 

Propriety demanded
I renounce my roguish friends
to achieve social acceptance
with my new crew
of well connected types

Their praise precipitates
angry charges of hypocrisy
from my freshly minted enemies
consumed with bitterness
who feel I sold them out
just to sit in the cool kids clique

I confess the sting of such criticism
resonates in my muted soul
but if only they could see
all the perks of being an insider
they definitely would have succumbed
to the lure they dangled before me




Fool's Gold

 

Another gala event
for all the Right People
of extreme means

They regale in their Golden Palace
recently renovated
now bathed in sparkling opulence
as the peasants shiver outside

Sure the upgrade was expensive
and the cost prohibitive
but our Jester Magician
through accounting quite creative
moved some safety net money around
to get it done nearly on budget
as the well dressed Aristocrats proclaim: 

"The Party is the King
The King is the Party"

Not mutually exclusive

Can't separate the two

But the Facade Kingdom
is destined to shrink
cause the product reeks
as once loyal peasant subjects
who comprised his power base
will soon renounce and abandon
the sinking Ship Of Fools

Even the Obscenely Wealthy
will flee into hiding
to protect
their precious investments

All that will remain
is a lonely decrepit King
sitting wearily 
on a tarnished throne
in an empty ball room
lamenting bitterly
about the treasonous audacity
of his growing legions of enemies
dismantling his delusional legacy
of an Oligarch Camelot





Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Take Out Virus

 

Post extinction event
the once fertile fields
are today blackened

Scorched into oblivion
in a futile attempt
to burn out the beast

The Earth now wrapped in darkness
as the final tenacious pestilence
ravaged the landscape of Humanity
in a replay event
we were once again
shamefully unprepared for

The Death Virus mutated and adjusted
much better than now defunct us



Truth Benders

 

I tossed a truth grenade
over the Wall of Ignorance
into the Garden of Propaganda
long nurtured by slick
orator ministers
making shit up as they go

Naive me actually
thought I could change history
by invoking the ghosts
of muckrakers past

The influencer class
easily absorbed my blast
and spun it into today's ration
of mass regurgitated disinformation

Thereby living and thriving
to lie another day
for dark money compensation
from the never seen enemy
seeking to hunt me down
for my crime of reality heresy





Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Laminated Love

 

Never very wise
to smoke inside
a gunpowder factory

Nor is it a good move
to drink wine
during surgery

And it's never
smart at all
to take love for granted

For love
must be nurtured
and vigorously protected
from the forces of erosion
that if unchecked 
will corrode the heart
over time

Whatever it takes
to keep these feelings solvent

Cause Love,
that fragile necessity,
remains our bedrock foundation 




Monday, October 5, 2026

Angel of Truth

 

She graces my jaded presence
with an aura very intense

Hovering as a tease
over the club scene
of which I was a bit player
of minimal relevance

At least that's what she said:

Shrink wrapped
and dropped kicked
ordinary me 
into the friend zone abyss

Blunt truth is always
a difficult concept
to reckon with
but quite necessary
in order to proceed
in a disjointed fashion
to my next
heart wrenching rejection



Sunday, October 4, 2026

Mute Points

 

Where were you
on the day of reckoning
when decisions had to be made
how our future course was to be laid?

You sure as Hell weren't here

Your absence made it clear
that you had no interest
in the decision making process
and the heavy burden
that comes with it

So stuff your "should of" criticisms

This conversation is for players only





Saturday, October 3, 2026

Global Blender

 

Can you hear it?

Off in the receding distance...

Cries of global hunger

Desperate famine
advancing our way

No longer
just a Third World
tragedy play

Can you hear it now?

Perhaps you should
pop out those ear buds?

Now we got mass pestilence
sneaking over our walls
of smug indifference

I guess it can happen here

You can't ignore problems away

In our rapidly shrinking world
there is no more THEM

No more faceless unfortunates

There is finally only us

One Humanity tragically
united by poverty



Friday, October 2, 2026

Infected Us

 

The blips on the edge
of our known galaxy
began as a faint
cluster of satellite captured
mystery transmissions

Too far out to be any threat
to threaten our precious security
based on extensive expensive
expert analysis

Those in command
in their infinite wisdom
deemed this "Voodoo Science"
which they did not understand
boring as Hell
and not very cost efficient

Not when the money
could be best spent
on modern high tech munitions
to drop on a Third World Country
for a liberation mission
that makes great deflection television

So our satellite eyes
were turned off and closed shut
as part of the Bigger Better
Austerity Budget

In retrospect
this may have been a mistake

For the soul of our global village
was absconded
by the unexplained phenomenon
that dropped from the sky
while we were sleeping

Woke up as zombies

A mindless populace

Easily manipulated
by powers unseen

Is this all a bad dream
or our new forever slave reality?

Or maybe this is an upgrade?




Thursday, October 1, 2026

Third Star From the Right

 

There comes a point
in this trip that seems endless
deep into
the indifferent horizon
that you have to surrender
and turn over the keys
to the power of motion
that will eventually
pierce the inertia
determined to hinder us
from our current destination

If we do survive
and somehow manage to arrive
don't you dare look back
deep into the abyss
of pointless over analysis

No need for useless remembrance

All that post trip bullshit
that sticks to our shoes
and leaves behind
the clinging accumulation
retrospective residue
which only serves to slow us down
like a persistent inhibiting demon
as we set out to embark
on our final life journey



Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Wind Blown Us

 

At the official dissolution of us
she inquired politely
in a tone quite melancholy
since we were now
officially "just friends" again
where we went wrong
and what did become
of our once great relationship

As the Dylan poem proclaims:

"The answer my friend
is blowing in the wind"

Untied things
of insecure means
lacking in substance
and gravitas
are prone to blow away
when the weather goes stormy



Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Open the Looking Glass

 

"This is how it's done"

"Standard procedure"

"By the book"

"Put those blinkers on"

Maybe it's time to shatter
these preconceived labels
that have always enabled
well established presumptions

Dispose of those dusty assumptions
that have stubbornly
defined our distorted reality

Open up 
a fresh universe of unexplored
untried possibilities
that we never would have considered
if we had not liberated
this repressed imagination
in the first place



Sister Go To

 

Doing a montage
of conquests past
to combat insomnia

Tis a quick riffle
of stilled images
from scraps of erotic memory

My harem of yesterday
real and imaginary
never fails to do the trick
as the launch
definitely not meant to be sustained
ejaculates white lava tensions
in a quick burst
of blessed release
and a sleep state
is finally obtained

Upon suppressed reflection
I have never fully conquered
the obscene whispers
from my Catholic indoctrination
that this act of masturbation
is somehow classified as a venal sin
in their thick book of control

If only Sister Mary Kate
and her faux pious crew knew
she has always been my go to
harlot that gets me off the quickest

Amen bitches




Monday, September 28, 2026

Unnatural Selection

 

Fist fighting a burly stranger
over a flirty wench named Doris
whom we both wanted to take home
and get intimate with

Like two rams butting heads
to mate with the in heat bitch
who was getting off on the conflict
over her physical affection
as we rolled about brawling
on the sticky tavern floor
which reeked of spilt beer
and fragmented nut shells

It was a lengthy 
perfectly choreographed fight scene
like you see in those old
black and white Western flicks
with John Wayne trading fists
against an anonymous character actor
who always got his ass kicked
by the top billed star in the end

In this action packed edition
it was my turn to play the Duke
as I hit my worthy adversary
whom I did not know
before this manly engagement
with such a perfect blow
I could feel his nasal bones crack
beneath my now very scraped
crimson flooded fist

He dropped in a heap
holding his destroyed face
as I staggered down the bar
to claim my feminine prize
for a night of natural fornication

Alas I was advised
by the pissed off proprietor
of this drinking hole establishment
that the object of my painful desire
had left the scene of the altercation
with a suave pacifist
tax accountant named Clyde
who drove a baby blue Ferrari
and promised my now absent love
an unlimited coke supply

I brought a dirty bar crying towel
wrapped with ice to be applied
to the proboscis
of my former adversary
to stem the red tide

Of course I bought my new friend
an adult beverage
as we dissected the cause
of our inglorious encounter
and mutually lamented
the utter futility
of intergender relationships
for damaged mutts like us
in the 21st Century




Losing to Win

 


Give us this day
our daily bloodletting

She hits me in my intellect

A low blow for sure
and always my weakest spot

The one sided battle
quickly turns into a route
as she pummels
my male insecurities
like a coke crazed jazz drummer
closing out a set

She gets me up
off the foreplay mat

We have makeup sex

She lets me win at that

I can't wait for the rematch




Sunday, September 27, 2026

Life Hurts

 

What came first the depression or pain?

They blur in concerted agony
Torturing in harmony
Blending misery
Razor blade slices my tongue
A jagged bloody mess
Now I can't French Kiss
This hurt makes me lonely
The pain supplements my sadness
like rancid bacon and eggs

Nobody wants me

Least of all myself

The miserable freak








Friday, September 25, 2026

Blessings Tabulation

 


COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS


You have more in your pocket

than you think

even if you believe 

the quality of your life stinks


No matter how much it currently hurts

millions of less fortunate souls got it far worse


So go outside in the pouring rain


Splash in the juiciest puddles...


and by all means...


COUNT YOUR FRICKIN BLESSINGS !!!










Soul Collector

 

Angel of Death

Always lurking
on the periphery
of human tragedy

Ready to load up
harvested souls
for his long time boss

Cares not
if the victims protest
or whimper about their fate

They ain't gonna negotiate
their way
out of eternity

Nothing personal mate

Just a case of wrong place
wrong time mortality




Thursday, September 24, 2026

Hate Connection

 

Just because I hate A
does not mean necessarily
that I love B

For you see my little droogies
I am quite capable of despising
both sides of this decrepit coin

The enemy of my enemy
can never be my friend
cause I can't readily
compartmentalize
and build walls
around my many hatreds
to avoid
complicated conflict duplication



Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Iceberg Man

 

That dude you so admire

All smooth and debonair

Struts about
with the confident air
of a hyper cool superstar

He seems
to have his shit together

He's the legend we fans
saddled with our own
personal anxieties  
can only dream to be

But perception ain't always reality

Too often they are dreams
of how we wish things played

For while the confidence man projects
nary a care in the world
like an iceberg
we only see the tip
and not
the underlying despair
trapped beneath
our hero's churning sea
of suppressed insecurities 



Tuesday, September 22, 2026

The Opiate of Numbers

 

We the esoteric oracles of future events
have moved way past
primitive crystal ball tech

Instead we now harvest targeted data
to project tomorrow with supreme confidence
based on our very best
quantitative sample analysis

Modern prophets of an arrogant bent
rely heavily on these black and white stats
to such a skewed over reliant extent
they oft overlook unseen anomalies
tucked away in the shaded margin of error

Ignore not the ancient sage of prophesy
warning us to beware the Beast of Improbability
slight as the long shot odds statistically
that the catastrophe may seem to be

We need to always respect the possibility
that our best laid statistical projections
are no match for the power of Destiny

That most overlooked shock variable
throughout illogical human history




Monday, September 21, 2026

Help Wanted

 

All I want for Christmas
is a president
who is smarter than me

Not a high bar exactly

Here's my Chief Executive Check List:

One who is well informed
and eloquent with their positions

Possessing of intellectual curiosity

A firm grasp of history

Well versed in economics
would be excellent

A person who is compassionate
towards those less fortunate

A leader with a steady moral compass

A beacon who is globally respected

Not a close minded fool
brimming with arrogance
trying to bluff his way through

Is it too much to ask for competence?





Sunday, September 20, 2026

Disorderly Transition

 

Back and front...

Out and in...

Our orderly sequence
has gone astray...

Tis that kind
of transposed day...

We can either strain
to scrub away the stains
and get back to the original intent
or accept 
this permanent reversal variation
and learn to embrace
life's many deviations 



Saturday, September 19, 2026

Contrived Villainy

 

In our stunned state
when the walls
came tumbling down
we were for once
in that moment
one nation

A united people
on that tragic day

And in our naivete
we actually believed
our rarefied national unity
post 9/11
would survive
the pointless partisan blasts
that serve only to divide
and distract
us tainted peasants
from who the real enemy is



Friday, September 18, 2026

Murky Mirror Man

 

How ironic
that I have become
all the things
I used to mock
and revile
in my youthful nativity

Not the way
I ever envisioned I would be

Such is the high price
of muddling conformity

Always settling
for the comfortable
low risk wave averse position

A member of 
the obscure
anonymous median

Part of the muddling majority

Mired in our stagnant mediocrity

The nightmare
of always settling
and shortchanging
our sold out dreams




Hooray For Us

 

I do so wish
we legions of misfits
would dismiss this fixation
with trying to fit in
and assimilate 
with the bland median

I dream we cease
constantly tearing each other down
by standing on the bone pile
to be better seen and admired
by our false cultural idols

Always desperately seeking validation
from this shallow judgmental
cookie cutter society
saturated with hypocrisy
that has as way more
deep seated issues than we

I do so aspire
for the day 
we misfits finally see
that we are the flawed majority,
disorganized as we may be

Celebrate and leverage
our many variances
that bless our diverse alloy
with the fiber strength of steel




Thursday, September 17, 2026

To Do or Not to Do

 

If we are to be defined
by the choices we make
then we must
also be assigned
by the choices we don't

Acts of omission
can either diminish
or uplift us

It's no wonder
that with all these
variations
permutations
and their sticky consequences
we too often get paralyzed
by indecisiveness

Best to not over think

Trust first instinct

Gut intuition can be your friend

Make your play
as best you can
and in the end
don't beat yourself up
over imperfect
all too human decisions

No need get overly defensive

Learn from your thought process

And then turn the page
and proceed confidently
in a forwardly direction