Monthly Archives: September 2017

These colors don’t run (or pass or punt)

Team loyalty, it seems Is more a myst’ry than a science Who knows why I’m devoted To the New York Football Giants Is it just about proximity To what were our home towns That Duane roots for the Raiders And Hugh bleeds for the Browns I was born three feet from Flushing So, if you [...]

Mixed Feelings

I’ve mixed feelings for my President I don’t know what to make of him Some folks I know have said They’ve had as much as they can take of him He has a way of leaving In his wake, a mound of messes And a style that all too frequently Steps on his own successes [...]

What’s Happening?

I like to think that I can tell The real news from the phony I trust the guys I tune in to Here on the old Marconi I grab the daily papers Just to get the whole gestalt And take each take I take away With but a pinch of salt I do my own [...]

Just Another Day

You’ve seen it in the theater On the stage and on the screen The hero or the heroine Who rails at the routine To climb the corporate ladder For bills they have to pay They follow their own footsteps And do it every day Though much that comes from Hollywood We don’t see eye-to-eye with [...]

Houston, 2017

That little jolt in Northridge That shook me from my bed That smashed the house I lived in And dropped books on my head Yes, we had come to Hollywood To live among the stars But spent the rest of January Sleeping in our cars That ice storm on Long Island A kid in freezing [...]

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