Seattle Photo-Don’t Buy That Condo!

January 11, 2024 / chr1 / Leave a comment

The photo’s all real. Just playing around with some text.

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Kojak’ll chase a perp down a garbage-strewn alley on the lower East Side. Right around minute fifty, just before the last ads for life insurance and Polident.

Someone’s gotta let the mother of another dead hooker taste a little justice.

Maybe a sharply-spoken word unloosens memory; a lost soul’s dreams, floating to some place in the sky.

Maybe amidst the stench of dopeheads and their dealers, greed and thoughtless action..a splash of Old Spice reminds us all of a little thing called hope.

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This is my favorite:

Friday Poem-A.E. Stallings

January 11, 2024 / chr1 / Leave a comment

The Mistake

The mistake was light and easy in my hand,
A seed meant to be borne upon the wind.
I did not have to bury it or throw,
Just open up my hand and let it go.

The mistake was dry and small and without weight,
A breeze quickly snatched it from my sight,
And even had I wanted to prevent,
Nobody could tell me where it went.

I did not think on the mistake again,
Until the spring came, soft, and full of rain,
And in the yard such dandelions grew
That bloomed and closed, and opened up, and blew

–A.E. Stallings