Tuesday, August 04, 2015

"The laws of physics do not apply to Donald Trump"


From last night's Morning Joe news and commentary show: 

"The laws of physics do not apply to Donald Trump." 

It's true. Image: Donald Trump with future cabinet member Ex-Governor Sarah Palin.
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Drawing: Faces #1195 - trunk faces

By Jack Brummet

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Sunday, August 02, 2015

Poem: Dasvidaniya, Ivan Ivanovitch

By Jack Brummet


Dasvidaniya, Ivan Ivanovitch,
Living life like it couldn't last.
Each day you feel the marrrow diminish
And each week ending is a week too fast
From which there is no turning back.
So you cinch it up tight and leave no slack

To slip through those towering gates,
Relieved from duty in these United States,
Where you were born but never fit.
Now the powers that be coil and spit
As their venomed fangs are bared.
You want to abandon ship, but never dared

And paced and tried to raise the nerve,
Knowing or praying, hoping for the call
Before stumbling into that last blind curve.
It never came and now you sit and wait,
And swear this time you'll play it straight,
Hovering in circles until you stall.

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Friday, July 31, 2015

Poem: Coyote Comes Home Like A Salmon

By Jack Brummet





Crossing real estate lines
That mean nothing to him,
Coyote traverses the pale fog
Driven in from the sea.
He has a loan of time
To walk through his old salal tangled home.
Sneaking through nettles and Oregon grape,
He carries his battered canoe
Along cedar darkened clay
Back where he grew from whelp to pup.
Down whitewater roiling over boulders
He feathers the current with his paddle,
Turning in the current like a leaf.
The spent river slinks into the sea.
Pipers spoon their bills in the sand for clams
And robins claw at earthworms.
A diving hawk sends smaller birds
Tumbling into hysterical flight.
His bones feel fragile as obsidian
As he watches the green Kalopanish stop
And they all come to the end:
The river, the creek, and God's old friend.
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