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Christmas – 2020
It’s Christmastime again. A Christmas set during a year of profound sorrow afflicted by plague, political unrest, and change. Many of us, too many to count, have faced this last year as a trial with the jury still out deliberating our fate. I know that I have prayed to God for help and guidance, and…
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Conserv-A-Tiv, Inc.
A few enterprising folks from AIPAC found the spot where the original manger Jesus was born in stood they raised $1.1 billion in capital and built a Trump Hotel on top of it. The neon sign on the 50th floor flashes “ISRAELI/AMERICAN LOVE” The capitalists ride the elevator to the penthouse suites drink out the…
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Croz
Joni sang in longing the dirge-like hymn about Woodstock. Billion year old carbon stardust and echoes hovering like a fog over an inlet of sea with half a million molecules of flesh and blood swelling like water. You took her at her word enhanced it with experience and renewed the promise of what eternal youth…
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Generation Now
How are your check bones under the layers of flesh on your face? Does it hurt when you smile? My generation last vestige of the Cold War, bomb drill and the Red Menace, right watching live via satellite the utter collapse of what on paper was Soviet might. I was promised a world without war…
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Armistice Day
The sky is a wonderful blue and the air is just the right touch of cool for November. Southern California days in the lateness of the year are a pleasure – which makes this parade exhilarating instead of tiring. Armistice Day, 1924! We came back from France changed, my old self, dead. I hardly remember…
The Numinous Cosmos 