Observations from walking the hood.
With thanks to D. D. Buck^ for use of the header image.
Poetry
Don’t Be the One
Thoughts on negative reactions to live music; inspired in particular by Billy Nomates / Tor playing Glastonbury 2023 and The Who in Toronto 2016: Continue reading
Weight of the World
A question of context, perhaps perspective; maybe a journey through the unwinding impact writing can have: the calm sea at which the stream of consciousness ends having started on a harsh, craggy mountain side . . . Or maybe it’s nothing so dramatic as that and instead just a pondering on whether things were in fact better or worse in the old days.
Header image: Star Lore Of All Ages (1911); licensing. Continue reading
The Idiots’ Guide to Being a Successful Musician
And what’s more it comes in poetic form!
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Handsome Devil
A.k.a. the vain atheist’s prayer.
With thanks to Максим Власенко for use of the header image (alt text; a man visible from the waist up, naked, painted red and wearing horns, he looks to the camera unamused). Continue reading
Hey, Teacher!
Contemplating the origin of teaching in abstract poetic form.
With thanks to Andrea Piacquadio for use of the header image (alt text; a teacher with an open book, looks to the class while pointing at a chalk board).
About Your Lovely Teenaged Kids
Influenced by numerous friends’ belief in angels, despite the no-longer-so-little cherubs also being their teenaged children.
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Disgusting
I wrote this while celebrating 420 Day; maybe I should’ve left it there? Continue reading
Great Expectations; a modern take of little resemblance
The following is founded in truth. If it were not, there’d be no basis or reason for its potentially offensive nature. Many aspects, though, have been changed to protect the guilty. As for the guilty, well, it’s all a matter of perspective.
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Us We Humanity
alt text: a picture of Earth taken from space, the lower part of the planet eclipsed in darkness.
A verse about us.
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