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Greendale

2024-03-23
I'm a big Zuma fan, and an admirer of Neil Young generally. He's one of the few people whose guitar playing is instantly recognizable (except on This Note's for You; that one caught me by surprise). I'll look into Greendale.


I am looking after the wife who will find me

2024-03-20
Humans are the dogs' gods.


A Poet's History

2024-03-19
Like OTP, I disagree. You've outgrown artifice, and now your poetry has an appealing naturalism.


Guts and Glory at 28

2024-03-19
Great concluding metaphor.


Lines Written In Windsor Park

2024-03-18
Good one!


The train has left

2024-03-18
Having taken the wrong train out of Munich, I arrived too late at the airport, missed my flight, and had to pay $2,000 to get back home. I know exactly what you mean.


Fragments from a Memory Lost in Time

2024-03-17
Stream-of-conscious poetry (which shows up too frequently here) usually gives me a pain, but this nice. Well done, Sameen.


Trump

2024-03-17
Trump is a low-rent demagogue who appeals to losers, members of our privileged class who feel as if they're not getting what they deserve. The world is full of people like them, and that's why Hungary, Italy, Turkey, India, El Salvador and probably other countries I haven't remembered have elected demagogues like Trump.


YOUR CHOICE

2024-03-14
This is a very serious question in our age of effortless, relentless connectedness. Nicely done, Allen.


ship in the bottle (revised)

2024-03-13
So it seems, and to what end? Nothing is resolved.


Everyday in Jumbleorium, XXXVI (Stopped in its tracks)

2024-03-12
Leaving a trail of unused, unusable goods, like a slug's slime trail. That's how most of us age.


The Hum

2024-03-09
I hear you! I have hundreds of CDs which I never play because the shit pop which plays constantly at work has caused me to hate hearing music.


Deposition

2024-03-08
Nicely written.


understandable poem

2024-03-06
And we wouldn't know.


for you

2024-03-06
I agree with Sona.


Jen

2024-02-29
A little gem.


the unions

2024-02-28
So it would seem.


Erie Waters

2024-02-26
Not really good, but interesting.


Critical Source

2024-02-25
Of course. As Winston Churchill said, "History is written by the victors."


Dream by Ann Wood

2024-02-24
Pleasant thoughts. I hope that your dream is realized.


When The Trolls Are Dragged Out

2024-02-24
It's funny, isn't it? Germany was the bad guy in two world wars. Now, the Germans are just wonderful. The Russians played, by far, the biggest part in the fight against the Nazis. They helped us enormously, but we've never liked them. We endlessly antagonize them. I wonder whether that ever will change.


Ill-Fitting Jacket

2024-02-22
Great metaphor!


sotheby's

2024-02-22
Exactly!


HOSPITAL DAYS - 10

2024-02-20
Well done, Allen. I agree that there are parallels between religion and modern medicine. Both demand our faith. Also, congratulations.


The 5th Dimension

2024-02-20
Nicely done.


Simple Arithmetic

2024-02-19
Calm down, Dougie. I was writing about nations killing people in other countries, not nations abusing their own minorities, as the Chinese are the Uighurs and Tibetans, the Americans are the blacks, the Turks are the Kurds, the Indians are the Muslims, and so on.


Alexeï Navalny

2024-02-16
It's fun to blame communism for all of the world's ills, but Russia is not a communist country. It's a run-of-the-mill authoritarian state with a capitalist economy. Capitalism, of course, has produced more than its share of terrors, but the truth is that Navalny's death should be blamed on the Putin regime, not any particular economic system.


T R U T H - for sale

2024-02-16
Exactly.


Crabs & White Wine

2024-02-15
It must be very interesting to read your old diaries, encountering someone entirely different from you who happens to have the same name.


the filth keeps me grounded

2024-02-14
Nicely done.


suspensive clauses

2024-02-11
Trump's a moron, but even morons sometimes get things right. The Soviet Union is gone. The Warsaw Pact has disbanded. There is no need for NATO. It's nothing but a gang of goons looking for trouble. The world would be a much better, much safer place if it ceased to exist.


Your body is electric

2024-02-11
The final stanza is a knockout. Nice work.


REFLECTION

2024-02-08
Just what one should do on such a day.


The Final COUNTDOWN

2024-02-06
Exactly,


Limits of Self

2024-01-31
Great metaphors. Here's to the voyagers.


The Inevitable two State Solution

2024-01-30
The "two-state solution" is a ridiculous fantasy entertained by Zionism's apologists. Zionism, like all forms of nationalism, represents racism. Israeli Jews already have officially taken most of Palestine, killing, evicting and severely mistreating Arab Palestinians. Piece by piece, they are incorporating the West Bank into Israel. As a result, there is no place in which to establish this second state. Moreover, the exiled Palestinians deserve to return to the homes throughout Palestine from which they were driven. A "Jewish" state, like a white South African state, is an abomination. It should be abolished, replaced with a normal, respectable secular democracy which is equally welcoming to Jews and Arabs.


you shouldn't add more chaos to chaos, dear sower

2024-01-27
He certainly has contributed to it.


9/11

2024-01-27
Well done. Life as it's actually lived in a poem.


the prayers

2024-01-19
Indeed! Freedom is an illusion. Free food is real.


I WANTED YOU!

2024-01-16
A fine description of young love's terrible intensity.


Ramblings 643

2024-01-15
With some people, honesty is ill-advised, and civility is difficult.


Everyday in Jumbleorium, XXVII (Monica & Jehovah)

2024-01-13
I always lusted after Marantzes, but ended up settling for pedestrian Kenwoods and Onkyos.


....0..... NOTHING?

2024-01-13
Only if you accept them.


Lost Horizon

2024-01-12
From what I've read, it does seem that they were very badly treated.


Mother GAZA

2024-01-10
We are witnessing a war crime. Those of us who live in the U.S. are paying for it. We, too, are criminals.


Our Beloved Abbey

2024-01-09
Two companions lost within a year. I'm sorry.


HOW TO FLY A KITE

2024-01-08
Very nice, Allen. This poem has the ring of first-hand experience.


The Mediocre Grotesque

2023-12-31
Good luck!


* H A P P Y - S A M E - Y E A R *

2023-12-31
Probably, but you never know.


At the turn of the year

2023-12-31
Good thoughts, Dougie. I hope that your wish is granted.