an infinite variable

where there is hope there is sufficient means

sad but true

we are not enough
for one another

THE TREE WAS GREEN

Alone,
Up in the tree
Is a red wheel barrow upon which I thought I could
/ depend.

                  






                                   -KIRBY OLSON










....originality becomes him

uh yeah

if the fool and his money are soon parted
who gave him the money in the first place?

wisdom in the face of defeat

but the bottom line is that
mom's chicken soup
never will pull in
as much revenue
as Pfizer.
the big conglomerates
almost always win.

(...on the twins' defeat at the hands of the yankees
3-0 three straight play-off games
10 losses to the yankees on the season...2009)

tom powers - st paul Mn pioneer press

what it ain't

Art can't be measured along an ethical bell-curve in which all god's chillun are welcomed aboard the ark.

- curtis faville

CATEXTROPHE

i saw the best minds of our society
destroyed by text messaging
car crashes train wrecks
metastasizing devices murdering brain cells
immediacy
replacing understanding
weapons of destruction of the masses

guns don't kill people improvised explosive messages do

by the roadside in the thoroughfare car
bomb truck bomb bus bomb plane
bomb
bomb bomb bomb

inattention is the new concentration
soon we will all be twittering machines
Another catextrophe bites the dust in the wind
where the answers blow

(this is a poem by bill borneman
if you read it you must pay me and then i will see that he gets a cut)