I’m All Business Up In Here I feel it’s high time to progressively seize visionary forces, to intrinsically procrastinate emerging schemas, and to credibly build next-generation action items. You know you must collaboratively fashion ethical technology and assertively repurpose transparent human capital if this is to be an energistically unleashed end-to-end infrastructure. Don’t give meContinue reading “#326: I’m All Business Up In Here”
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#325: Idea for a Poem
I have an idea for a poem that I haven’t yet written. This is not that poem. This is the poem about the poem I would like to write. I’d call it a preemptive poem because it takes the place of the poem I’d like to write and the poem I’d like to write remainsContinue reading “#325: Idea for a Poem”
#324: If In 30 Lines
If I understand you correctly. If pigs fly and monkeys land on their tails about as often as they land on their heads and write the words of Shakespeare. If Shakespeare turns out to be a group of monkeys. If Jesus was just some wise guy, not a three-stooges wiseguy, but a man who exceededContinue reading “#324: If In 30 Lines”
#323: Good or Bad?
(a villanelle on a stolen line from Hamlet) Nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so, says Hamlet, and I tend to think he’s right, but bad weather and evil persist, you know. There could possibly be another show that proves it’s all subjective, right? Nothing either good or bad but thinking makesContinue reading “#323: Good or Bad?”
#322: Sad Poem
Both of my parents died, for starters. Not at once, of course, but within seven or eight years of one another. Daddy passed first and we watched him die, the whole family, a vigil in the meeting room of the nursing home where they sent him after a final, last ditch, unnecessary surgery where heContinue reading “#322: Sad Poem”
#321: The American English Teacher Receives a Note from the Benevolent Rabbit Society
My only wish is that they would have gone for something more alliterative: Benevolent Bunny sounds better and simultaneously more bouncy than Rabbit. But none of that overshadows the fact that, for the first time in my career as a public school teacher, I and a few of my colleagues have received a tip. ItContinue reading “#321: The American English Teacher Receives a Note from the Benevolent Rabbit Society”
#320: What Was the Question? That Is the Question
I’ve got no business on the moon. Looking for me once, somebody said, a famous poet, find me here, find me there, something about dirt and grass. I can get behind that. Who was it who said time waits for no man? Or time heals the wounds? Or, time is on my side, yes, itContinue reading “#320: What Was the Question? That Is the Question”
#319: How to Write a Poem Every Day
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends called National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo for short. Here is my first of 30 attempts, my seventh year in a row. The number 319 in my title, FYI, represents the number of poems I have published on the mighty blog, 180 of which wereContinue reading “#319: How to Write a Poem Every Day”
Diary of an English Teacher in His Penultimate Year, Redux: Time On Our Side?
Synchronicity, as Jung described it, is a meaningful coincidence, an “acausal connecting principal.” Things happen back to back that seem to be meaningfully related; even though the first thing could not be said to have caused the second thing, we still feel the buzz or the chill of revelation, usually in a thrilling and positiveContinue reading “Diary of an English Teacher in His Penultimate Year, Redux: Time On Our Side?”
#316: Chakras and Chi Balls (the Last Poem of April)
Some people associate a rainbow of colors with various parts of their bodies and they ascribe certain powers or characteristics of their psycho-emotional life to these various colors or energies; Some people think you can concentrate on a color, say, orange, and a body place, say, your privates, and that somehow your relationships will beContinue reading “#316: Chakras and Chi Balls (the Last Poem of April)”
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