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POETRY / Larry Piltz : The Messiah is always coming
Cartoon: Jesus-ufo-nesara / mattstone.blogs.com. The Messiah is always comingwith a wink and a constant drummingwith a fife and annoying hummingto a world that believes He’ll be slummingyes the Messiah is always coming The Messiah is always arrivingwith His seatbelt fastened … Continue reading
POETRY / Larry Piltz : Life is Catching
upright and examining rocksfor size, shape, and adaptability of soulto be set in place where they may belongwhen a soft crisp autumn noise abovelifts my attention expectantly upwardin time to catch the last engraved imageof a falling drought-year pin oak … Continue reading
POETRY / Richard Jehn: All the Colour
Truck Road, Welcome, Washington. Photo by author. Click to enlarge.All the Colour Driving through a cavern of colour, Unwittingly watching my life change as the leaves. For all the times I drove that highandlowway, Never did I see it so … Continue reading
POETRY / Mariann Wizard : Bad Obama
Photo: Dina Rudick/Boston Globe.Bad Obama “In April, the Los Angeles Times published an article about a going-away dinner for [Rashid] Khalidi that [Presidential candidate Barack] Obama attended in Chicago, Illinois, in 2003. Khalidi was leaving to become a professor at … Continue reading
Mariann Wizard: García Lorca’s Grave
García Lorca’s Grave García Lorca’s gravehas been found, they say,in Spain – in Spain, where the rain fell on Abel and on Cain – where those without fear were shortly seen to disappear – in Spain, where the brave fell mainly into mass graves –in fascist … Continue reading
Butcher Bloc Bingo
aztecskullvoodooonglue / Amazon painting by Giulio Baistrocchi. (Once for a Thousand Years) Once a long time ago things got so very slowWent down to Guantanamo and built me an AlamoBuilt me an Alamo down in GuantanamoTo stand for the status … Continue reading
Cleese Does Hannity. And Good…
John Cleese, shown with Sean Hannity. Madagascar photo by rodeime.It’s a beautiful poem from the comedy icon of Monty Python fame that perfectly captures the essence of Sean Hannity. Ode to Sean Hannityby John Cleese Aping urbanityOozing with vanityPlump as … Continue reading
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The Poetry of Sarah Palin
Recent works by the Republican vice presidential candidate.By Hart Seely / October 1, 2008 See some of Sarah Palin’s finest work, Below. It’s been barely six weeks since the arctic-fresh voice of Alaskan poet Sarah Heath Palin burst upon the … Continue reading
Larry Piltz: John McCain Rhymes with Pain
We are overjoyed to present, once again, with feeling and, more important, with sound and graphics, Larry Piltz’s poetic ode to the Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain Rhymes with Pain. We hope you enjoy this astounding tribute to what we … Continue reading
BOOKS : Bob Dylan’s Poetic Pause in Hollywood on the Way to Folk Music Fame
‘T dare not ask your sculpturer’s name/with glance back hooked, time’s hinges halt.’ BOB DYLAN From a text in “Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript,” accompanying a photo of Marlene Dietrich at Gary Cooper’s funeral in 1961. Photo by Barry Feinstein … Continue reading
Larry Piltz : The NeoContry Fair
‘George W. Bush and the Iraq’ by Werner HorvathThe NeoContry Fair Come on up now everybody to The NeoContry Fair drag your spouse out of your cave and all your terror-free lairs be sure to bring your bulletproof armor-piercing underwear … Continue reading
John McCain Rhymes With Pain
(Copy this, make your own video, make your own mix, circulate widely, the Creative Commons applies; L. A. Piltz, originator, 08/09/08.) John McCain rhymes with pain 4 more years of Bush Republican reignMcCain rhymes with pain4 more years of Bush-Cheney … Continue reading
















