Monthly Archives: June 2016

The Star Trek Paradox

A number of years ago I read a movie script where the heroes were a couple of naïve space aliens who came to earth to play Major League baseball because it was “the most beautiful game in the universe.” Tension in the script came from an alien travel agent who pursued them because helping the [...]

A Measured Response

If I don’t peruse the papers If I don’t turn up the sound If I just refuse to listen If I simply go to ground If I cancel my subscriptions And I forego all my flights Then decline your invitations And extinguish all the lights If I barricade the windows And decide to drop the [...]

What next?

After all the vitriol, shrill rhetoric And shouting The primaries have ended It’s all over but the pouting Grandees of the GOP Won’t go to Cleveland’s caucus Kids who cling to Bernie Promise Philly will be raucous Pundits say we’re in for some Unprecedented scrappin’ But being I’m a poet I can see what’s gonna [...]

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