Year: 2024

Small Talk

Small Talk ….but there wasn’t any error, all the lies –:came together, no one questioned them;{ all alerting others to the weather .– singularly absent of demagogues ..::a spectacle was joined ever nightly *..#inside, the notes were compiling upon a desk . . { From my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic available on major platforms such […]

INTERLUDE *& ::::: Demonoid Spake Thus

It was ever thus so, ever thus so and so, or so-so, as the case may be and if not it was trauma. In the sideways glance of time, as the case may be, or if not it was, we were in the letter of the law, but in it we took off into the night,

A Time to Devour All the Pills (Sonnet)

A Time to Devour All the Pills (Sonnet) Clearly nobody on all 3 platforms wants to read something called Sonnet, so this is getting renamed to “A Time to Devour All the Pills (Sonnet)” Time to go and time to trustTime to wean and time to lustA time to love and a time to killA […]

Multiplicities

Multiplicities Steaming StrengthOf all there was we were oneBut multiplicities aboundedThe universe shattered into an infinity of jewelsCurving around back on itselfIn the most intricate and vast of waysWe looked out on it in awe –The Scopes Monkey Trial notwithstanding –Why are wedding rings worn on the left?Feeling your way to a resolution of apotheosis […]

“20 Days in Mariupol” streaming free in the United States

“20 Days in Mariupol” streaming free in the United States The winner of the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary is streaming free on PBS and YouTube in the United States. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/20-days-in-mariupol/ :::::: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAyykRvPBo Be warned there is a lot of extremely graphic and disturbing stuff here. Explosions, injured people, corpses, people in surgery, tears, […]

The Issues

The Issues Some grasp on the issues was needfulWe were in no way prepared for themThey took us to the cleanersAnd we foughtThey tore us to piecesAnd we foughtOur favorite lines did not avail usBut we foughtWe grew ourselves into a corner From my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic available on major platforms such as Amazon, […]

Recent News Events

They have about forty oil refineries. Haven’t been counting but I think they hit at least ten by now, and the one most recent accounted for a full 10% of production. Built with irreplaceable Western technology and software. In other news, a nation effectively without a navy has driven the russian navy out of the black sea and sevastopol with small sea drones, sinking many ships, and can freely export grain and prevented the weaponization of food inflation, crisis, and famine by russia all over the world.

Nor Our Dreams

Nor Our Dreams Our loves could not hold our pieces togetherNor our hatesNor our obsessionsNor our skillsNor our moneyNor our dreamsNor our aspirationsAnd so it was that our pieces flew apartLike dust from a supernovaNever again to meet From my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic available on major platforms such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, […]

-Cook- * Cook/Up

The beauty of the dreams uncountedNot to be taken uncertain in times of transcendenceAnimations and travails were wrought of the oceans of speculationsAll on the way to roughness is the waking instantBeing, he wrought mathematicsBeing, he opened his heartBeing, he propelled the conversationCeasing, he became moreCeasing, he unwound too many timesCeasing, he overlooked many flawsBeginning […]