Join us every Monday night for drinks at the Daily Kos community political poetry club
Your own poetry is always welcome in the comments
Bongos, berets & turtle neck sweaters optional
The keypad is mightier than the sword
7 new pieces offered this week:
1. Musings on a churlish regular who frequents our local coffee shop, ostensibly to complain about Obama, Democrats, Unions, non-Christians and related (to him) subjects. The man is a retired teacher! Whoa!
"A life lived in neutral gear is no life at all"
2. Then, I just discovered that a friend, like me spent several years of his early childhood living in a Quonsett Hut. If you haven't been there, you will never know!
3. Next, this week, Romney's exhortation to "borrow college money from your parents" got me to thinking how totally out of touch this ghoul is. This immigrant who has had all his assets taken by the medieval US healthcare system has a teenager about to go to college and I can only afford to buy him a 2B pencil! His grades are great and we will be OK!
4. And the Romney/Ryan behavior is so reminiscent of some earlier megalomaniacal characters in history that the propaganda piece wrote itself.
5. Perhaps you will agree, perhaps not. My career was as an Economist, but I always wrote poetry and painted and always thought that the poets/painters/composers/writers held the key to our future. We simply don't enshrine ledgers in Museums!
6. A mea culpa upon realizing that listening is a better way of telling your own story
7. A reaction to first learning that the chemotherapy is not working and I will need to go to blood transfusions. Then to find out, this morning, that all is changed, at least for another week. And...
Please respond with poems of your own
Peace
CJ
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