Monday, October 13, 2014

Sunday, October 5, 2014

When you break it down, this blog is stupidly pointless.

Monday, September 29, 2014

Friday, September 19, 2014

Tugaloo Dam

When night leaves with its dreams,
Morning bursts over the mountains.
Man behaving less than an animal.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

What we have here is a woman fishing
About 100 to 125 feet from a hydro - electric dam where water is
subject to rapid rise and turbulence. I would call this a new definition of stupid.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Monday, September 8, 2014

Someone once said to me, "I want to live on
the flip side of perspective". After mulling it
over,  I am not really sure what that
means.
Oh wow, they’ve finally actually made bacon toothpaste. I will order some and let you know how it is!
(Before now, I could only pretend that bacon toothpaste was a real thing)
Oh,wow, they’ve finally, actually made bacon toothpaste.

grilled poofy.

aftermath of abandonment.

out of monroe

The Barn.

So, my time is near it's end,
The days of future now have come
                to pass.
Evening descends,
Arrayed in its callous disregard.
Neglect has reduced  me to exposed
                 and ruined timbers.
Life's storms have sheared
                 my skin off-
The facade is gone-
The emptiness of ruin
Exposed for all the uncaring
                 to ignore.

Once a treasure house of varied blessings,
But Time has only selfishly taken
                  never  offering restoration.
Even with the advent of the decay,
Still, Time greedily used me
Until I could offer no more
And then cheaply cast me aside
                    for another.
Along 88, above the Little Barren,
I collapse in the neglect of
                    the uncaring.
But.
But, but one has stopped
And enquired of me,
And I feel the flickering warmth
Of Hope one final time.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

out of monroe

             Monroe

And I overhear the tales told
With no prepared purpose
By the long weathered farmers
Planted on the front porch.
The eldest leans forward
And rests his elbows
On his aching knees.
He listlessly holds a cigar
       (Telling so much of his efforts)
But his bright blue eyes reveal
The truth of how he mastered the fields.
         Along 677.


In their only clothes that are dirt worn,
The husband and wife
Traipse up the front steps,
Resigned to their lives...
Still hoping for a future.
And the laughter of the children
Chasing chickens and goats
Interposes a specific contrast.

The cash register opens and change
Is made at the counter
For varied dry goods.
And I overhear the whisper
Of the keeper
Giving another
Thirty days of credit.
He slumps his shoulders.
He wants to help,
But even he can't pay his own bills.
From behind the counter,
A curly brown haired girl
In a stained, pink jumper
Scampers with mischief.

Iron weed and golden rod
Splash color along the ways
Inspite of the Cross Roads dust
Covering everything,
Turning the white-washed boards
The color of tobacco stained teeth.
And the old man with the
         Blue Eyes
Smiles at the baby cooing
In the young mother's arms.
He knows that still a future
Is to come as the dust
Settles from a passing truck.

the many years in monroe


Time in a window-
It's not what we always see.
Reflections In Shards
May be cast about the grounds;
However,
With care,
They may be pieced to form
A history
That will be missed
By all the hapless passers-by.
in

other's thinkings

Live in the moments you would die for.


....emotional vampires...


If I kill you, you might die.

Monday, August 25, 2014

ohhh.....damn.

stupid is as stupid does.
Idiot's Plumbing 101
And we have here..
A real man's car.
What the heck are they thinking?

random thoughts

Bad dreams remind me of toad strangling thunderstorms.





How often do we say things, wanting and willing
Them to be true, but in the end, they are only
Self-imposed deceptions to try and cope with
Our realities?

Sunday, August 24, 2014

thoughts...maybe

             South Central Kentucky

With shoulders of no forgiveness,
The narrow highways
Seem aimlessly muddled
About the countryside.
They are as randomly laid
As one would blindly
Toss strands of baling twine
     Into the wind.

Extended fields of tobacco,
Beans and corn hem the roads.
Cross road hamlets
Resemble decrepit ghost towns
And the multitude of barns
Look more like crippled winos
Stumbling about the fields.

August withers under
The relentless punishment
            Of the sun,
While desparadoes spike
          The tobacco,
Readying it for the barns.
The choking fields of corn
Yellow and brown-
          Not much longer
Before being harvested
          For silage.
Country music stations
Clutter up the airwaves
With the same songs
In mind-numbing repetition.

Yet.....
In this all, you will find
A few good souls
That enrich your life.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Sunrise...
Sunset...
An issue 
Of looking.

an end view

In our youth, life is seen as grand.
Then comes age and the withered hand.
We look...we wonder...
We struggle to remember
The long ago days
When skating was a craze.
But the eyes only see through a gray mist,
Sitting on the bench, unable to recall the first kiss.
With a ragged and heavy sigh,
Hope is tenuous, maybe a lie,
As we look to the leaves falling,
Unable to hear the young one calling.