I am so distraught that I have to be elsewhere. I will miss all of my great PoemsAbout friends. 😭

#NaPoWriMo 22/30
#EarthDay #Poem

when his bulbous ego bursts it’s best to be downwind

It really does, Frank! I love when a poem sets off music in your head. Thank you for sharing that!!!

am I fickle or is a pendulum stuck in my head

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VOYAGER you honestly don’t know what you got till it’s gone or at least a fifty year light day away could nasa create anything today that still works in fifty years no imagine if an idiot like trump was president in 1977 the year of trump’s first failed marriage and the voyager launches see him sucking up the funding and painting his name on the spacecrafts sending worthless husks into the void we mocked pence when he touched the space thing but the dark matter that was trump vance remained undetected I still have residual pride in the mission but today’s american vacuum is boiling me alive from the inside

#NaPoWriMo 21/30
#Voyager #FuckTrump

the pinched wing of a bug she will not squash

dull as dead piano key

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puppy chasing her moon shadow

I would think so if a local station on the same frequency stops transmitting.

Thank you, Merril. It was definitely a loss for the world.

I’m so glad you said that, Merril. I really wanted to create that effect!

Thank you, Merril!

I would hear it switch over from WOWO, a very white 🍞 station in Fort Wayne, IN, to the very urban WLIB.

Fun fact about radio carrying. AM can travel really far. Sometimes I could pick up Red Sox games in my car. Also, the “black superstation,” WLIB, started their day 6:00 a.m. I used to fold newspapers at a pharmacy on Saturdays and Sundays, and on my way in

I kept that pub card in my briefcase as s souvenir and conversation piece. I am pretty sure it is still in my briefcase, double wrapped in evidence bags after being retrieved from Fresh Kills.

Sometimes they played it in the pub at the Rutgers College Student Center. (I was probably in the last class to graduate from “Rutgers College” and have a pub card.) I have a memory of studying over a beer in the RSC pub listening to Skin Deep by The Stranglers.

I try to keep current with Indie and folk (especially Scottish) but it’s very hard. But I do enjoy talking music with my son. Fun fact, there was a Long Island station WLIR at 92.7 in the 80s. At certain times of the day, I could pick it up at home and the car on an analog tuner.

I believe it….

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Funny thing, I definitely was a huge Pink Floyd fan. But for the last few years, I have made it a thing to only listen to music released in the current year. Not a hard and fast rule, but for the most part. This is a chunk of my 2026 playlist!

😂 Yes, I suppose it is. Frankly, after forty years, I’m almost afraid to try it again, but sometimes I am tempted.

Here is the actual place I started writing today’s #NaPoWriMo #Poem. There really are a dispensary, a police station, and a liquor store at the same intersection. In fact, there are three dispensaries within two blocks of each other.

Wow!

STONER DAY Rush hour paused at the light by the Englishtown PD watching another car line up at the drive thru dispensary and across the street a midlife crisis balancing a twelve pack on his bicycle handlebar. Back in a red-eyed teenage stupor hiding in perpetual paranoia from parents and cops no one was thinking much beyond the next air guitar solo much less fifty years ahead but if they were that ain’t no way the way they dreamed of getting high.

#NaPoWriMo 20/30

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The deer are like can Audrey come out to play and Audrey is like grrrr…