Monthly Archives: June 2023

Father’s Day Gift

June 18, 2023 – 1:31 am

My father came around the world to see me and Angie in Thailand. Most of the time he had no idea where he was. It was the start of his decline. Frank A Smith II passed in 2010, but my father will always be in the here-now with the love I carry for him into […]

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HUNG by Peter Nolan Smith

June 13, 2023 – 9:59 am

The Village in New York had always attracted a kaleidoscope of radical, deviant, and perverse characters considered abhorrent by mainstream America. The Reds of the 40s gave way to the beatniks of the 50s, who in turn evolved into the hippies of the 60s before surrendering the shattered counterculture ghetto to the junkies, artists, punks […]

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Tibet T-Bone 1995

June 10, 2023 – 6:51 pm

This road ran between Lhasa and Kathmandu. Twenty miles farther Another dirt road diverged to Khailash. The van stopped there and drove off to the Holy Mountain A thousand kilometers away to the west. I stood at the t-bone intersection Headed south to Nepal. I couldn’t have been happier in such desolation Whereas I freak […]

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Not on Fifth Avenue

June 10, 2023 – 6:37 pm

Two weeks before the 2016 Iowa Caucuses Donald Trump regaled the crowd by saying, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” Since the January 6, 2020 MAGA insurrection and his ouster from the White House the leader of the GOP […]

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We Are Alone

June 10, 2023 – 5:25 pm

And the Aliens thought themselves Gods Divine beings destined for the stars Traveling in Hydrogen-fission spacecraft On a Holy mission To spread the Word To the Heathen Extra-Terrestrials The first meeting happened long ago Hunters greeting tri-podites They taught us life Now we ready for the Bible-jihad We are Gods in our minds. More Shiva […]

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