Joy Leftow's Blog, page 34

In Commemoration of 9/11

I have to tell you
Nothing's changed from 7 years ago or even 15 or 20 years, many more
A cockcrows, pseudo psychos run our town, our entire country betrayed by nationality
Threats weighed in all around
We stand our ground
Another bomb can drop anytime
No more Hiroshima mon amor
We never know how long
Victims never expect the expected
We destroy ourselves again and again
A full course in humanity
Educators told to slow the word holocaust
Like if they don't use the word holocaust that means it never hap...

Nothing's changed from 7 years ago

or even 15 or 20 years
A cockcrows, pseudo psychos run our town, our entire country betrayed by nationality
Threats weighed in all around
We stand our ground
Another bomb can drop anytime
No more Hiroshima mon amor
We never know how long
Victims never expect the expected
We destroy ourselves again and again
A full course in humanity
Educators told to slow the word holocaust
Like if they don't use the word holocaust that means it never happened
It happened again tell me your ancestors didn't get here by...

I Want Some Tanqueray

Tantalize me tranquilize abnormalize my soul to eternity
Eyes on the prize no more lies scrumptious skies
revise and improvise a nobel peace prize
Before I crumble away and decompose I want to weigh less
Portray the prepaid finance for a valet in France
A strawberry soufflé sorbet to lighten the ash gray drab day
Morosely foreboding forbidding decay on a field day
Make a bad thing worse
It's not a fucking curse
Amy Winehouse's is coming back as black as she wanna be her white is right she's got the ...

Perception and Misconception

Ur so stabile she inquired so where does all this
Anti-establishment rage & anger come from
If she only knew what we'd been through
Starting six weeks ago she wouldn't stand there
Asking the same silly questions over and over again
Holding the mic under his nose
As though I didn't exist
And I know for her I didn't
Even though I'd already answered her question
About how we'd found the reading
She asked the same question again
the mic steady under his nose
When music man deferred camera girl to my respo...

Where Did the Day Go?

My morning begins with a whirlwind I start a poem and leave it in mid construction
I make coffee, wash cat dishes, my plates, saucers and cups, clean some Tupperware
Do a wash - separate Cleo from Magic pass the litter box remind myself to clean it and continue on my way to pee I'm busier than five buzzing bees
Then I spy some jewelry and figure out a way to reconstruct it to a different form
I conduct a search for the missing parts
I look outside at budding trees raise the window and stick my hea...

gcast up front again

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Steig Larrson and me

Steig Larrson, the man behind the stories that gave him his name fame glory posthumously led a fascinating life. Larrson could be one of the characters he became famous for writing about in his millennium series. Fighting to right Nazi wrongs in Sweden, he was a well known journalist who founded Expo, an antifascist magazine. Here in the states people don't usually think much about the Nazis but in Europe people give more importance to World War II and the havoc it created in history. In Swed...

Steig Larrson

Steig Larrson, the man behind the stories that gave him his name fame glory posthumously led a fascinating life. Larrson could be one of the characters he became famous for writing about in his millennium series. Fighting to right Nazi wrongs in Sweden, he was a well known journalist who founded Expo, an antifascist magazine. Here in the states people don't usually think much about the Nazis but in Europe people give more importance to World War II and the havoc it created in history. In Swed...

Pain travels & travails ...

OK I did expect a play about mental illness - that's how it's advertised after all. I know Dan Berkey many years, since 1993 to be exact when we met a poetry reading. We've been in touch on and off since then and more on now that we discovered the pleasures of email.

I am Dan Berkey a schizophrenic actor in remission he announces as though we were all together at an AA meeting. Hi I'm Joy and I'm crazy too which most of us are but how many of us have spent time in the psych ward being evaluate...

Pain travels or travails ...

OK I did expect a play about mental illness - that's how it's advertised after all. I know Dan Berkey many years, since 1993 to be exact and have been in touch with him on and off and more on now that we both discovered the pleasures of email.

I am Dan Berkey a schizophrenic actor in remission he announces as though we were all together at a AA meeting. Hi I'm Joy and I'm crazy too which most of us are but how many of us have spent time in the psych ward being evaluated and treated and let go ...