Better Homes & Gardens Revisited

Because you lived your life so well, / We gave you many epithets, / Each more Homeric than the last: / Huge-pupiled (always seen to swell / Before your…

Aug 18

Better Homes & Gardens Revisited

Most of all, I want life taken care of, / Every single must and have, / Which dominate / My mind each day, / Complete: / No more responsibilities.

Aug 15

Email from a College Administrator

Hello Everyone, / Welcome to the start of another great semester!

Aug 7

August 31, 2020

My wife is playing “Escapade,” / So Janet Jackson scores the scene.

Aug 3

The rich are different from you and me.

Jul 29

Photograph Credit:

Pictures are better than places, / And, if I had to choose / Between traveling beautiful, foreign climes / Or staying at home with a book and some booze…

Jul 23

I smelled the autumn fires burn, / But every red and yellow scene / Was spoiled by a bit of green; / I waited for the leaves to turn.

Jul 20

With both my children safe in bed, / I overheard / The evening news: / A boy, just ten; / an accident; now dead.

Jul 16

Buttons used to click and clack.

Jul 13

If I were The Benevolent / Creator of the Universe, / I’d change the way a life is spent / And let all conscious beings traverse / Through time like…

Jul 11

The Horror! The Horror!

It must have been the second grade.

Jul 7

We need the inscrutable, not to enjoy, / But to stay unconsumed until we are improved: / A poem so puzzling we have to employ / A few dozen scholars …

Jun 29

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