Feeling lucky? get ready for it

Feeling lucky? get ready for it

there’s no mystery…

 

 

Prepare yourself to get lucky.

That’s how you make luck happen.

 

You probably know that lots of people have already said this, in slightly different ways.

You probably know this is what you need to do.

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“…my final future…”…   “now then…” my poem

“…my final future…”…   “now then…” my poem

I realize new truths…

 

 

now then…

 

The unknowable future

   has been around for a long time,

it is,

it will be,

the mystery is what, not if.

 

I realize new truths.

I’m closer to my future

   than I used to be,

I’m closer to my final future.

I think more about tomorrow,

I think more about today.

 

Sweet futures can become sweet nows,

the nows I can know.

I can choose my next now,

I do not know tomorrow’s future,

I will live it in good time.

 

May 11, 2024

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“Tear it up,” says Kurt Vonnegut

“Write a six line poem, about anything…

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“We almost always know…”

“We almost always know…”

don’t pretend this isn’t true…

 

 

“We almost always know what the right thing is.”

 

from The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2016

p. 156

don’t try to forget this

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Book review: Saint Joan

by George Bernard Shaw

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“faintest breaths…”…“another thing,” my poem

“faintest breaths…”…“another thing,” my poem

what’s it all about?

 

 

another thing

 

j’ever notice

that they never look up

to look at the phone?

 

head tilted down,

the obvious sign,

body still,

thumbs awhirl,

faintest breaths…

 

how often have you seen

  someone pumping a fist

    and shouting “yeah!”

      after scrolling down

        one more time?

 

Try talking to that guy

  in the waiting room

    who hasn’t looked up

      from his phone

        since he sat down…

 

think about being him…

it won’t take long.

 

May 9, 2024

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1491 by Charles Mann (book review)

…lost American legacies

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Starman…an alien with special sauce

Starman…an alien with special sauce

wholesome, believable, nice…

 

 

Movie review:

Starman

1984

Rated PG

115 minutes

 

Break the egg labeled Close Encounters of the Third Kind and break the egg labeled Jane Eyre, and scramble them with some special sauce, and you get Starman.

You mix your basic alien lands on Earth story line with love at a slow burn, and then give Jeff Bridges (the “Starman”) a chance to theatrically show how hard it is to learn the English language after you crawl out of the spaceship.

Several characters rise to the challenge of answering the obvious question: how do we deal with a being from another planet who visits Earth with no obvious threatening intent?

The good guys win in this story, and Jenny (Karen Allen) learns a lot more than anyone else about a different kind of life out there in space.

The story is wholesome, there’s some action, Bridges and Allen make a believably nice couple, and you don’t have to wonder too much about how the story is going to end.

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iambic pentameter, y’know?

da DUH, da DUH, and stuff…

“In search of”…my poem

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“a dancing wight”…“Another time,” my poem

“a dancing wight”…“Another time,” my poem

a chime in the dark

 

 

Another time

 

That single chime,

sometime in night,

there is no rhyme,

try as I might

   I cannot conjure

      a dancing wight

         who sings that tune,

no song sublime,

no twist of rune

   that I can write.

 

I let the chime expire,

I savor it entire,

perhaps Great Pan

   may favor it

      to puff his pipes,

and thrill the mime

   in pagan rite,

in distant time.

 

May 8, 2024

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Book review: An Empire Divided

King George and his ministers

wanted the Caribbean sugar islands

more than they wanted the 13 colonies…

by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy

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