June 2025

Of the Summer Solstice -every fleeting evening light, wish & sigh as brief as in the wink of an eye

1st Day of Summer

Solstice scimitar shaft
Slicing search torch
Gleaming longest burn
briefest pinnacle of light
declining seconds after
a descent commences…insight

The shadows start their
Encroaching erosion
Immediately… sans deferment or delight

Beware
Learn that lesson
From those who would
Build their world
On your ashes.

-Got Abstract ? 2014

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Dwindling Shadows of June

(Audio version from the CD Quatro-Vox 2013)

In the dwindling shadows of June
dancing in her
twilight skirt
gushing vermilion liquid
time is like a broken
Capillarity in the calendars
main line artery.
You can’t hope to contain
any of the torrent
Just drown maybe baby
Because the
big drain is on
You can feel the pull
you can feel the life
leave you
diminished
ever closer to
the finish
Not some abstract
intellectual property
but a cold hard tangible reality.
Your ebbing confidence
in a narrow shallow vision
in the past semi-protected
you from the harsh truth
from too much disappointment
There are no prospects
for replenishment here
This dissipation bathed
in spectacular warm light
is waning
the dissipation grows in the encroaching shadows
and takes
what was given
in the finite
while what is being
taken away
is
infinite.

-Sometimes Grief 2012

Burning June

Each June sunset

burns like a stick match

struck against balance

left in the calendar box.

Right now I’ve got a few left.

But who’s counting ?

I am.

New Work

The Fix is in

1^st Draft

Prometheus gave man

A zippo lighter w/ the name

Enola Gay engraved on it.

-Industrial Revolution

-Rise of the Machines

Better weapons for WW 1

Crash goes the Markets

Margin went belly up

Speculation Dust Bowl

The great market adjustment

Holocaust

That missing Zippo shows up

In Oppenheimer’s pocket

Baby Nukes Born

Aliens trash their Dads Car

Near Roswell

Plenty of interesting stuff

Found in the Glove Department

Took them a while to figure it out

By the Millennium

The Fix was in-

The grand re-engineering

The Continuity contextual age locks in

Brain Wash ?

Don’t flatter yourself

You will be assimilated

Resistance is futile

AI can make you do anything

Look like anything

Say Anything

Yes- They will have it all in place

Very soon.

Wish I could report it will all be organic

Like an Cyber Octopus

But at least they have two hearts-

We have lost ours

Not a matter of eradication

Half of the planet like Lot’s wife

The rest of us might be useful

Ever smell a Chicken House ?

We lay great eggs

And have extra Crispy thighs

BF Skinner Box terrible now

Operant Conditioning

Barking with Pavlov and his Dog

Go DING !

When’s the last time your mouth watered ?

It will-

Time is running backwards terrible now

Reducing exponentially

Numbers redacted reduced

Till they stop the clock

Baby

VQ 5/21/24

Update Pending/New Work