Well said. Especially the sitting by the window business. That's poetry! Or not. I am certain that levity is as truly necessary to great poetry as gravity! Shakespeare, Joyce, Seuss! Robert Service!

I so enjoyed Billy Collins' reading. It was so refreshing, and so funny. I ran to the bookstore and bought one of his books. Have 'The Dead Dog Poem' and 'Suddenly' been published? I looked through some of those available, but didn't find them.

Joan

I enjoy writing poetry. I prefer WITTY poems to most other types, but then I am an educated person, and so in a crowd political people accuse my facial features of being a BUMMER... that's how I know they are NOT witty! Also people who accuse me of being Jesus and Violating BOTH the 8th commandment AND my 4th AMENDMENT are NOT WITTY PEOPLE! If only they could articulate such vulgarity in a witty manner, call me zeus, Odin, or ask if what I say and do are appropriate for NON IRISH WAKES (Us Irish laugh and dance EVERYWHERE and that annoys non-irish who do not celebrate the dead with the living in the presence of the dead. Oh well we can't all enjoy good WIT, we would be our old selves again, and people who have family in WAR ZONES would have more reason to hate us, and bring POLITICAL VIOLENCE to our shores (I was so mad 9-11 I almost forgot about due process, and THAT is what Political VIOLENCE is all about) and that's why I look for old fashioned American bravado when I can find it. Being American in public in AMERICA attracts so many non-Americans to act like ILYICH IVANOVICH i need more that a 6-shooter to defend myself.

PS If anything here seems witty, please USE it, and pass it on. I would like proper renumeration and even consideration for a writing job, but that is not how things work anymore. So I release what I have typed, with only the tourch of WIT to keep this Darwin, history, science, person going... and that's not easy when so few can bolster the morale of such a remnant... (Will rodgers and Samuel Clemens come to mind; but they are dead white men, and NOT rainbow enough for todays people under 60.) When did people forget it's WHAT they said, and not WHO said it that we try to stimulate amongst each other? I try to pass American culture, and I get Ilyich in my face saying DEMOCRACY and PARTICIPATION is BAD---- Conformity to DOMINATION and POLITIC correctness are good liberal things we must all exhibit. (To me this seems like a christian acting Buddhist... VERY apparent, and not very WITTY!)

Thanks and MERRY CHRISTMAS, and winter solstice.
Jesus may be historical or not, but what was was and we fill today and tomorrow with wit to avoid the rut.

Mike

Some people just don't have a sense of humor. I thought Filthy Fred's antics were quite entertaining.

Dress Use #62 – Halloween Costume

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I did a little trick-or-treating tonight. The benefit of the wedding dress costume is that it also doubled as candy sack.  I took a little break next to a pile of trash someone in my neighborhood had staged on their sidewalk.  I was calling myself a caveman but a couple people thought I was Moses. Costume options were somewhat limited because there is no way for me to actually fit into the dress. I think the caveman wrap turned out pretty good.