• Hope

    in my anger and frustration i stood on the sidewalk waiting my turn to enter the grocery store our new bread line then i saw it hope in the form of a small blade of grass pushing its way up through a crack in the unyielding asphalt i am renewed

  • Checkpoint Charlie 2.0

    Where will the next Checkpoint Charlie be located? Not the one we’ll stand on in order to peek over the wall, The place where the federal elite will keep an eye on us, The Checkpoint Charlie they’ll be able to shoot us from? Yeah, some called for a wall to protect the American From the…

  • Why Self-isolation Fails

    I admit it… I failed at self-isolation today But I was not alone I ran into a friend A retired Marine He jus’ returned from China He was out and about, like me He told me this tale How he flew out of China Without being checked for Wuhan Flu COVID-19 Coronavirus Landing in Taiwan…

  • My shadow is pissing me off. He’s been underfoot most of the day.

  • Me, You and Wuhan Flu

    no one I know is sick wuhan flu to quarantine so much frustration

  • Poem #50278

    i’ve always been alone, alone, alone even as a child no one felt like me i felt like no one no one listening no one talking only too myself and my feelings and as an old man i’m alone in thought in feeling in action and i’ll die alone like the child i’ve always been

  • With St. Patrick’s Day a bust because of COVID-19, it’s ironic that our next big drinking holiday is Cinco de Mayo, sponsored by Corona Beer.

  • Imaginary Nevada: March 18, 1920

    https://soundcloud.com/sierra-tom-darby/in-20200318 With a stick of dynamite and a length of fuse tucked in his saddle bag, Brady rode out to the pilings, where he’d encountered what he now knew to be dinosaurs. He walked around the one pile, searching for a possible explanation as to what had happened that night, but he could find nothing.…

  • The dinosaurs died out because of COVID-19 beause the T-Rex never covered his mouth when he coughed.

  • Social distancing — I thought that’s what Facebook was for.