Monthly Archives: October 2023

On The Precipice

October 6, 2023 – 2:38 pm

On the precipice. We may be doomed by climate change. Surrender. Against the inevitable. Never. Anything written in stone The wind will be erased with time. Cut your energy costs Shut off the lights Unplug the voodoo transformers. Curtail your driving to Costco. The money you save is money stolen from the energy companies.

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The Inertia of Despair

October 6, 2023 – 2:08 pm

Wars Endless Wars Fires burning the sky Fields failing without rain Hunger Disease Millions fleeing horrors From the South North East to West In all directionsof the compass Seeking safety Hoping for something better The news shows blurbs of the chaos. Talking heads of the media spread rumors, lies, untruths. Thirty seconds more than enough […]

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The Neponsit Homes Eternal

October 6, 2023 – 10:46 am

The Neposit Homes overlooked Riis Park Beach. Originally constructed as TB wards and later serving as mental wards and finally converted to a home for local seniors. I recalled sunning naked beneath those windows in 1978 with Sharon Mitchell after a long night into the dawn. The old ladies shouting kind words to us in […]

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Plastic Ocean

October 3, 2023 – 8:13 pm

Plastic Everywhere Fort Greene Park Farmers’ Market On a rainy Saturday Morning After Friday’s Noahic rains. People shopping for the vegetables Artesian breads and meats Fruits. At a stand A middle-aged progressive Blissfully packs Apples into Plastic bags “Do you where that goes?” I ask. Stumped by the unexpected question, I answered for him, “To […]

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Day Five Forty Days of Rain

October 2, 2023 – 4:45 pm

In Genesis 7:4 Yahweh said four thousand years ago, “For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.? In early September the Eastern Seaboard had been torched by a heat […]

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