The Ghost of Tom JoadMen walkin’ ‘long the railroad tracksGoin’ someplace and there’s no going backHighway patrol choppers comin’ up over the ridgeHot soup on a campfire under the bridgeShelter line stretchin’ ’round the cornerWelcome to the new world orderFamilies sleepin’ in their car in the southwestNo home, no job, no peace, no restWell, the…
Category: music
FFF 66 — Doodads
Difficult to believe that January is almost done. Groundhog Day is coming soon, and maybe it will mean only 6 more weeks of winter? This FFF will have pics taken in January but not shared yet. Maybe some music. Maybe a poem. Let’s start with pics. I bought the 5-disc set of “Spectacle: Elvis Costello…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — The Seeker
The Seeker Geo, world travelingsearching, rising, falling,tunneling throughentrances, exits;a circuitous tube.Tu be is to beconnected to fabric of All. Note:I decided to use a dream I had back in 2020. The collage is the closest I could come to what I experienced in the dream. I observed George Harrison, traveling on a tube to…
dVerse Q240 — At Mercy
At MercyWhen temps dip belowzero, wind moans bite-numbing frostbite song;at midnight, quiet sighs,a clicking trip: mini-splitdies. Layering buffer works for pudgy humans, cats;wee fishies not so much.We, at mercy of Motherand Machine, firetroubleshooting;ah! warm again!Notes: I’ve had 3 power outages this winter. One was via the power company with downed trees, with power/heat restored within…
dVerse Prosery Monday — Final kiss
Bury me with the lies I told.–Alejandro Escovedo, from “Bury Me“ Final Kiss We grew up as neighbors. Your folks and ours were best friends. Moms canning peaches together every summer. Dads on the same bowling league. Remember when we all got Stingrays with banana seats? I remember it started in 9th grade, when we…
#SLS “Forever’s No Time At All” written by Katie McInnerny and sung/acoustic by Billy Nicholls from Pete Townshend’s, Who Came First (partly repost)
As I lie amongst the heather bedHigh above the ocean’s roar Looking first through my own digital catalogue for songs with Time in them, I happened across this album and this song. I did a post on it back in March 2025. The next part is from the original post: Max from PowerPop posted…
Tao Talk 