for Thomas Mann and Richard Bach
all-night wrestle
with this blinking cursor curse —
alone
at morning’s lightfall
I glimpse a swift's skywriting
FYI: Below are two of my favourite remarks on being a writer:
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
-- Thomas Mann
And
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t QUIT. 😎
-- Richard Bach
Added: No More Fairy Tales, LIV
for Franz Kafka
sky tinged gray
a heron high-stepping
through plastic
FYI: It seems to me that one should only read [poems] that bite and sting you. If the [poems] we read don't wake us up with a fist to the skull, what’s the point of reading them?
-- paraphrasing Franz Kafka
Added: Politics of Distraction, XVII
In the land of the free, dreaming ...
To American midterm-election voters
The poor and middle class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the super-rich pay lawyers, and the ultra-rich pay politicians.
smell of muggy noon —
the Reflecting Pool's blue sky
turns algae green
Trump news on mute ...
in the soup kitchen mirror
a twentysomething's stare
FYI: CBS News, June 22: Company owned by Trump donor won $1.7 million no-bid Reflecting Pool cleaning contract
Added: reading between the lives and writing between the lines, XCIII
summer sunlight
pours through atrium walkways ...
flicker and flicker
on tired faces of back-alley youth
at the photo exhibit
FYI: This is a sequel to the following:
reading between the lives and writing between the lines, XCII
in held silence
the newbie bares, I used to
love getting high...
until a certain point
a roomful of heads bowed low
