It’s been over a month since doing one of these. I’ve purchased Tedeschi Trucks Band’s new album, Toadies new one, “The Charmer,” and a couple of Toadies earlier albums, “Rubberneck” and “Hell Below / Stars Above.” Have listened to all of them once or twice, but the one I’ve had on repeat is, “The Charmer”…
Category: mental health
#FF — The Best Kind of Rap
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields The Best Kind of Rap On the couch, snuggled in a throw, sipping a mug of Bailey-splashed hot rooibos tea, I listen to Roy Orbison sing, “Only the Lonely.” I feel abandoned by the present and sense no future. Snowflakes drift by outside, a flurry of past memories reminding me…
Celebrity Skin and The Family
Celebrity Skin and The Family For some of us who find we need respite from reality, escaping into the fantasy of music, movies, tv series, video games, dreams (through sleeping) etc. can become a habit at best and dissociation at worst. Vonnegut, in his book, “Farenheit 451” wrote about “The Family,” which resided in a…
The Oracle Speaks — Ask a rock why
Ask a rock why. When will they be, forest-haired, singing some stormly sky to lathered light? Diamond-breasted dreamers lust after summer shadow. Sad moon honey crushes ache together, bitter, smelly eggs. Red rain, please recall garden petal dresses, sweet roses moaning with their bare fiddle symphony. Bonus message: play goddess, shine show no ugly rust….
dVerse — Crazy Mary (repost from 2018, with PJ song added)
gif link CRAZY MARY Carefree girl, at homestead safe, with her familyWhen 10, a flu stole her mom, in great agonyWhen 12, wild boar took her dad to hereafterWhen 14, sis ran away, not seen thereafter When 15, brother left for war, never to returnAlone, lived by chickens, snares, veggies – and she learnedBaker’s visits…
dVerse — Poetics — Caged: The Haunting of Marie and Billy (a ballad) warning may be triggering for some
Photo: blogs.lse.ac.uk Caged: The Haunting of Marie and BillyRefrain:When trouble calls and raps your doorAs chaos rise to test you Whatever gets you through the nightYou must do, living blessed you.I.Marie thought Billy was sublime,so strong in his uniform,the first born son of Pastor Joe,first sight on first Sunday morn.Discharged for good, the rumors said,enlistment…
dVerse — Q207 — Spun
Spun Sticky drops of spin spin centrifuge of deceit distilled to juju toxins; cut, powdered, pressed, pilled pushed through professional pads dealt on dark nets. Mirages, tasty pumped placebos, candyflossing brains with webs, while mad rulers fiddle us dizzy stuck shells, scrambled scribes of tell. OO OO OO OO OO Top image, “The Candyfloss Sky,”…
Tao-Talk 