Beneath the smile that’s on my face I long to be in another place Where I could strike the mother lode Do as I wish with my own moral code Instead of following rules that render me toothless I could do anything at all, including being ruthless I’d treat the laws like a relic and […]
Sometimes when you want to reach your goal What you need the most is a total asshole When you feel like quitting and just want to sob You can call your asshole to do the job Instead of being sympathetic to your whining I’ll kick your butt and stop your pining When you need a […]
Am I out of juice or just getting started? Are there clouds ahead or is sun them parted? Close at hand is my seventh decade I don’t need to work. I’ve got it made. What’s the meaning now for what I do My friends are retired and I should be too. But isnt the point […]
He bought a hat – a hat he bought It gave him just the look he sought Out he came from haberdashing Thinking that he looked so smashing Down the street he walked on air Filled he was with savoir faire Then on home to his sweet wife She saw his pride and full of […]
I knew I’d have no chance If I asked that girl to dance And I knew without a doubt I’d never win the boxing bout. No chance I’d be elected. I might as well have defected And what a silly notion If I tried for that promotion But before I kick the bucket Why not […]
My brain gets oh so fuzzy With a drink then I get buzzy I find myself so smitten With the amazing words I’ve written. I dare not self-admonish Instead my words I find astonish Til I wake up the next day And then it seems passé. I wonder as I write this Is this just […]
Duck Pond Poem (By Kim Stachenfeld at age 5) Ducks in the duck pond, frogs there as well I don’t really blame them, it’s a nice place to dwell It seems like a nice place, although I hear them say Quack, quack, quack, quack, every quacking day
Good bye my wife I say in the morning am leaving for the day I will see you tonight come what may Good bye my daughter your first day of school Good bye my child as you go off in the world But you will be back Good bye my father and thank you for […]
A would be Kerouac I went to hit the Midwest Wondering would there I find America’s worst or best On the coasts some call them flyover states Denigrated as not with us – not our mates Ask the Times, Wash Post or other news sources They’re not worthy of us on our moral high horses […]
I have noticed this affliction which, in my view, seems to affect even the most intelligent and perspicacious of persons, which I call: The Bias Bias Trap To get right to it, and make it super easy, consider that you and I are arguing about something important; say, it is Climate Change. […]