Author: waltersboxx

My self was born XVII: XLII, Dies Lunae, XI.V.MCMLXIV at Latitude: 33-17'40'' N Longitude: 083-57'58'' W: Jackson is in Butts County, Georgia at an elevation of 705 feet. Interests include reading/writing, currently working on hodgepodge book: poetry, essays, other. Retired, Air Force. Divorced. Ephemeris heavily populated by Taurus: Sol, Luna, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter--my two daughters say--I like old things; classics, I would counter. Interests: formatting documents/tables, classical music *a pattern forms*, Shakespeare, Joyce, Jung: maybe I was born old. Sadly, I have not published anything—more critic than creator, so far. However, English major still tantalized by math.

The End is Near

BlackHole
RCAIndian

I plan to donate my physical remains
[ The sole remains ] for medical research ;
My one reservation ? :   the lack of summation
On a crumbling tombstone for passers by
To read and partake in glancing puzzlement
Of the sentence between the parentheses,
The period before the final period
That definitively endmarks the document—
The character of the protagonist captured .
Minus engraving on monument or memorial ;
My epitaph for your consideration :

This is Only a Text .

Failed to find a loophole :
Maybe a wormhole ?

Wait !
This is a black hole .

[ Test card inserted ]

Beyond Event Horizon
Please Stand By

— *[ WSB ]. —

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Bleach

The false obituaries,
Reports of demise grossly exaggerated :— ‘ John McCain not a war hero ’ [because he was captured (POW)]
— Skips the Fox News debate [ Megyn Kelly asked pointed question
concerning misogyny ]
— Grab ’em by the pussy tape [ case in point ]
— Hurricane Dorian projection Sharpie-Gate [ weather map altered to prove
Bama could be slammed ]
— Impeachment [ acquitted on two articles of impeachment :   abuse
of power and obstruction of Congress ]
— Drink bleach [ for Covid ]
— January 6th [ criminal referrals including conspiracy to defraud the
federal government ;  obstruction of an official proceeding, in this case
Congress’ certification of electoral votes ;  conspiracy to make a false    statement ;  and inciting or assisting those in an insurrection ]
— 2nd impeachment [ acquitted on single article of impeachment :
incitement of insurrection against the U .S . government and lawless
action at the Capitol ] *TeflonLogo

TEFLON .   [ So far ]

Until the electorate cares, and inters
The blaring bullhorn of demagoguery .

* List not all inclusive, just highlights of a plethora of scandals, exposés, outrages, and norm breaking

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Death is a Star

PhantomOpera

q2l

And I was gripped by that deadly phantom ;
I followed him through hard jungles
As he stalked through the back lots,
Strangling through the night shades .
O the thief of life
Moved onwards and outwards to love .

In a one–stop only motel
A storm bangs on the cheapest room .
The phantom slips in to spill blood,
Even on the sweetest honeymoon .
The killer of love
Caught the last, late Niagara bus .

By chance or escaping from misery,
By suddenness or in answer to pain,
Smoking in the dark cinema—
See the bad go down again .

And the clouds are high in Spanish mountains ;
And a Ford roars through the night full of rain .
The killer’s blood flows,
But he loads his gun again .
Can make a grown man cry like a girl
To see the guns dying at sunset .

In vain, lovers claimed
That they never had met .
Smoking in the dark cinema,
See the bad go down again .


CombatRock

— Joe Strummer;
Mick Jones —

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Tom Cruise.

CruiseRun

Running in movies since 1981 .
Tom cruises
Fast .
     Just keep running
                 as long as you can
Tom,
Hitting those marks with clear intensity .

A verisimilitudinous dude
Committed to craft :   stunt and spectacle
—A Chaplinesque storyteller .

Cruise

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Loss, the Cross, and the “Lord of the Flies”

Conch3

Playground .

Rational thought :   Piggy with “ flashing glasses ”
Brought by “ flashing-eyed ” Athena .
The release of Promethean fire,
Isolation from modernity :   the adolescents .

Savagery at the core of humanity
Against the impetus forward into day—
The rapid fall toward the void
— marooned boys:

Quick dissolution of order .   Ralph sheds his clothes
In the sunrays .   Clothing marks walls;
The conch calls—the ocean lost .
Jack [ the unbridled force ] controls troops :
Jackboots against the sun .

Simon sees the beast coming .   Crucifixion .
The feast of the hunt ;  pig becomes
The Lord of the Flies :   Beelzebub .
The tribal drumming swells

Barbarous .

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MotionDismiss

q2l

Plaintiff [ Donald J. Trump ], and Plantiff’s lawyers,
Are urged to reconsider their opposition
To Defendant’s [ Attorney General of New York,
Letitia A. James ] Motion to Dismiss .
This litigation has all the telltale signs
Of being both
vexatious and frivolous .

— Federal Judge Don Middlebrooks,
of the Southern District of Florida —

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Comeuppance

CalfEscalator

Understanding the audience,
The golden calf fatted descends down
A golden escalator
[ Orange as the sun ]
And nationalists
And fascists floorshow in boots
In the glow of the beast,
A primal hate thought to be tamed .
Focused .   Named .
Inevitable :   the brute turns .

The flambeau infernos .

Panicked worshippers flee
With question–mark gestures,
Accepting no blame .
With gnashing of teeth,
Many start bawling,
Imagining the mauling
By the bovine
Falling down,
Coming up .

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man’s bullshit

q2l

Every piece of this is man’s bullshit .   They call this war a cloud over the land .   But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say ‘ Shit, it’s raining ! ’

ColdMountain

— Ruby Thewes:
Renée Zellweger, actress
Anthony Minghella, screenwriter —

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They Talk About

Potatoes1

They talk about Potato Heads,
About Dr. Seuss, and Muppets .
They talk about Pepé Le Pew
[ Not the cat that fled ],
And Big Bird—kids are the puppets,
And never should white ones feel guilt .
About no gun laws on dockets
[ ’Cept arms to the hilt ] .
They talk about sports transgendered
[ As a matter of course, damsels
In dungeons await heroes—
But real concern is zero :
Her body, her choice
Undone by Supreme < masculine > voice ;
Disclaim they !   respect for dames
( That stay clear of video games ) ] .
Distracted .   They pick your pockets .

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