Written in Chicago on 23 October 2021
Our sense of comfort in existing s… Cannot be denied, and yet There’s always something more out… Just beyond our comfort zones. Do we dare to seek it out?
How shall I remember 2023, this fifty-sixth year of my life? Hopefully not the worst of the bun… but it did have some measure of st… My catalytic converter was stolen
This poem stays in my pocket Until I take it out And read it to somebody That’s what this day’s about. Thanks for listening to my words
Sometimes there’s just nothing to… And other times, there’s more than… But in the wake of Jimmy Buffett’… I’m going to try creating new stuf… If I were a big rock star
Abraham Lincoln was our first poe… who really knew how to turn a phra… but the best one of all has to do… “We can complain that rose bushes… or we can celebrate that thorn bus…
The Beatles are there now; John was murdered in New York Ci… The Who are there, too; Keith Moon drank himself to death… The Doors are also halfway closed…
An eerie silence has descended over the places where constant activity once reigned. Construction will no longer occur now that undocumented workers
The band’s ferry got stuck in a sa… on their way to New York City on an April day in 1954 when music was changed forever. By the time Bill Haley and his C…
Gil Scott-Heron a poet who made the first rap reco… said the problem with peace is that there was no money to be made in it.
“Obrigado” is All the Portuguese I know But it is enough
Someone who steals a car and drives it down a city street at speeds not safe for the highway and kills an innocent person two blocks from her own home
The people of that northern state That we all call “Wisconsin” Have but only one desire To see their beloved Pack win If you’re near to Chicago or St.…
As I understand it, here’s what a… First, select the best words for s… Then bind them together with an ir… Tweak them as needed, to make the… And turn them loose, so the world…
Here lies Rob Harris He once drank a lot of beer Then he gave it up
I’m still very angry with those who stole my catalytic converter in late February. But the money