Latest Additions

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Hear the ancient Kalevala,
Wise and ancient Kalevala,
Reconstructed Kalevala
From the 19th century,
From the spirited dynamic
Counterrevolutionary
Year of 1849.
Scholars traveled diligently
Seeking fragments of the epic,
Fragments of the Kalevala,
Which they patched together neatly,
Sewing it into a whole,
Almost like it fit together,
(Frankenstein could do no better)
Almost like it fit together,
Back in 1849.
All is carefully authentic
But the parts that were invented,
Which I am about to fix.
Let me go! I'm gonna fix it!

Earthquack

When the world was sky and water,
Lacking any continent,
Also lacking any island,
Lacking any land at all,
Down from heaven flew a duck,
Gaudy noisy orange duck,
Quacking like a firetruck,
Aiming for a woman's knee
(Possibly a little higher)
As the duck so often does.
Quack the first became the sun,
All the light of all the truth.
Quack the second was the moon,
Changing periodically.
Quack the third was solid earth:
Finally a place to gather,
Build the houses, clear the land,
Dig and work the solid iron,
Iron for our use and vengeance.
This the truth I have discovered
In my diligent researches,
This the truth to lead the way this
Counterrevolutionary
Year of 2024.
finished August 2024, added
Not brains, not skill, not luck.
I called any god on high
To find an excuse for this orange duck,
Who is not just a stupid guy,
But a dumbfuck dumb as a dumptruck
Under the dumbstruck sky.
finished August 2023, added
Yankee Doodle polish up
Your Yankee Doodle branding
Stick some mortar on your board
And call it understanding.
finished February 2024, added
I must go up to the sky again, to the dark beyond the blue,
And all I ask is a worldship and a star to steer it to,
And a million colonists or more, and a planet for the taking,
And a crazy plot like a juggernaut that the author is half-baking.
finished February 2023, added
When Barsoom invades the lower house
And Covfefe declines too far
Then conflict will drive our planning
And we will always bear the scar.
It’s dawning on me that the age is hilarious
The age is hilarious
Hi-lar-i-ous
Pre-car-i-ous
finished February 2024, added
freight train, ball game, seeing the final scene
cookie, hot tea, tenth anniversary

a weird coffin girlfriend
hiding here
cheerless chosen and intent

bird cage, ball game, reticent bride to gain
rose ring, backswing, what is the prince’s name

a weird lively girlfriend
fighting here
cheerful chosen and unsure

then the
突き店 彗星店 星座店
タイヤ店 影絵店 妄想店
同性店 個性店 原罪店

sayonara endless looping, here is the key

just a little stab to drop the girlfriend
just a little way to seize her power
(just a little J.A. Seazer power)

so-o pseudo-sorry
sorta pseudo-sorry
sooooooorryyyyy
finished January 2022, added
It was not Truth - I looked it up -
The oracles were dumb -
It was no Lie - the Sky was pierced
And Revelation came -

It was not Knowledge - in my Ears
The Consonance - resolved -
Nor Intuition - fingertips
Revolved in Nacre grooves.

Still, it reflected like them all.
The Figures on the screen
Were ordered ranks of Theories
From Clouds above - my own -

As if the night were shaken,
And shifted from its bed,
And bent to seek a deeper Sea -
It was the broad noon, made

Of gathering and sorting out
The fine dull grains of life -
And fusing them to phosphors
That flood Unseeing Sight -

But most like Destiny - arrived
Without a paw to hear -
Or nose - or whisker - or a Thought -
Above the miles of air.
finished October 2021, added
Come to the overmanaged park and see
The long-forgotten ruleboard, and beyond
The picnic tables scattered randomly
Down the hillside to the duckweed pond.

There take the yellow-labeled “Laurel Trail”
Into the woods, and hear the selfish crow
Above the traffic noise that shall not fail.
Huh. Maybe there are laurels. Who would know?

Pass garbage barrels and the dog poop station
And find a beech with some undamaged bark
Next to the path, and join the conversation:
Carve the year as your eternal mark.
finished March 2021, added
Sweet dreams and hollow fears
Who am I to set you free?
I’ve learned some words and the ABC
Everybody’s fallen for something
Some of us live in confusion
Some of us think they’re not confused
Some of us want to include you
Some of us want to be excused
finished April 2020, added
Mary had a little lamb
As innocent as Amsterdam.
Mary promised, “Ram or ma’am,
Sheep are not the source of ham.”
finished February 2020, added