This is a little piece of doggerel that I wrote while watching the stock market plummet in reaction to The Convicted Felon’s idiotic tariffs. The first lines just came to me out of the blue, and the rest I had to work at. As I know that I have a couple readers who live outside … Continue reading The Arrow
Poetry
The Lie
I found this poem among the poems in the poetry workshop that I took. No author given, just a rather cryptic N.Y.T and a date 10/14/61 at the top of the page, only to be contradicted by October 23, 1961 at the bottom. Does the N.Y.T. stand for the New York Times? I searched the … Continue reading The Lie
The Duel
One of my favorite books when I was a child was “The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat”. Alas, I can’t find a copy of the cover that I remember from my childhood so this one will have to do. It’s actually a poem entitled “The Duel” by a 19th century writer named Eugene Field … Continue reading The Duel