Where did it go Along with me Am I virtual No, that can’t be Used to love to dance I’d hold her She’d love me How to kiss goodnight We’re both wearing a mask Doesn’t matter at all Beneath my mask I don’t have teeth The nature of despair for positive thinkers Such as ourselves…
I’m reminded of an experience most of us as parents similarly can recall. When you’re awakened in the middle of the night by one of your kids, who’s upset because they imagined a bad person being in the room with them. “Daddy, I’m scared there’s a bad man in the room, he’s hiding…
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2020.9:00 A.M. In this play, I was the star without lines and they were the players with all the lines and movement. They displayed the action while I was nothing more than a prop. They had placed tubes in each of my wrists, and a mask completely covering my nose and…
Always room to laugh Never room to cry Being in place Then going astray Dreaming & praying For our hardships To go their way This, too, all will pass That’s what they say Will it come soon, I ask, When we all hear the words Finally, and at last This painful tide Is washed out…
Open letter to Cathy Kalmenson, my dear wife A cloudy, rainy day in Chicago At a most precise moment Of what would become The beginning of our days As husband and wife Twenty-eight years hence Some blood Much sweet sweat Our share of tears Enjoying and battling What life offered us Here we remain Another…
In the most dismal of times, when least expected, Choose to hunt for the inevitable spark When a body seems too tired for the hunt From your helpers with no form of mockery towards you They glean from life’s losses, betrayals, and victories, All scribed earnestly, With only your betterment at heart’s will, Your chin…
EMULATE: It can be great (or become great), or in a bad environment cause you to incinerate. Making room on your plate room for more good stuff show some patience, we used to say Study well, Real winners don’t have to bluff Kids were taught to know “Patience is a virtue” Or maybe not…
Too early to recall, but remembered as some time between late night and dawn in a geographic location, the furthest easternmost area of these United States of ours… A very young boy was experiencing an unsolicited version of what life could dish out. While remembering exacts (which most of us are frequently unable to retain…
The Voice Actor Listen closely, or from a distance Like, love, or disapprove my tone if you will Be in agreement, or tune out my theories Be moved into a mirthful state Dissolve passionless from my efforts to create Your choice in listening to me be only yours I well may be a deceiver Not…
Rarely does a week or so go by without someone asking me about a celebrity I knew, or had worked with, from my vast past history file. Often the question alone will bring a smile, considering I would have to be well over one hundred years old to have known or worked with…