Who Says a Smolt Can’t be a Smelt?

Who Says a Smolt Can't be a Smelt?

Yes, W.H. Auden, but…

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
– W.H Auden

might Poetry be

mixed clear
of feelings,

defined as:
the expression?

New Horoscope

ARIES (March 21–April 19). You tend to take the money and stand. What would you do if you found out your job?

TAURUS (April 20–May 20). To be a success, twist things better.

GEMINI (May 21–June 21). Suit self on a subconscious level.

CANCER (June 22–July 22). You stop. So many people suffer when enough is enough.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22). You feel used and want something to tempt you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22). You want to realize the possibility that something even better might occur.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 23). Write some kind of mistake in life’s odd offerings.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24–Nov. 21). Who can talk a fool to walk the walk? You!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21). Chance contemplation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19). You are in awe of people who possess others, though you may not see anything remarkable.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18). You have a strong sense of minute situations. Warm up to get comfortable.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20). No one gets through life by being good at only new things. Realize what isn’t.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 28). You go into the year with a soft chord in your compass. Your connections join groups. June happens in April, July and December. Aqua people adore you.


blackout poem, source: Horoscope, Holly Mathis, Philadelphia Daily News, 2/28/12

Redacted from the Book of Proverbs (no. 11)

​If you give a hungry man a fish,
he will eat for a day.

If you give a hungry man a gun,
he will likely aim it at you and say,
“take me to where you keep the fish.”

once [(there was] a time when) the sky (opened) by itself

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Visual Proof

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A Heads Up on the Screw Up

A Heads Up on the Screw Up

The Continuing Adventures of Detective Frank Green

In some cases
indeed, death does come
like a thief in the night,

wearing latex gloves
and a mask,
careful of what it touches.

I’m Detective Frank Green.
I used to work Vice.
Now I work Homicide.
I make my living
bringing killers and murderers to justice
then watching justice smack them silly
with a big old justice silly stick.
​ ​
Homicides by nurses in a hospital setting
have tripled over the last 40 years.
Now, I don’t mean to scare you away from
receiving proper medical attention,
which may include admittance to a hospital bed
for an overnight stay
or a stay of a much longer duration.
​Those are just the facts.

But it’s just one more reason to get yourself
or your loved ones
off the cancer sticks.

Because if you smoke,
you will eventually land in a hospital bed
and you will have an open IV crying out
“please fill me with potassium cyanide”
in a language understood by only sociopathic nurses
or nurse practitioners
or sociopaths pretending to be nurses
or nurse practitioners.

to have once escaped

to have once escaped

A Token of My Affectation as a Turnstyle

A Token of My Affectation as a Turnstyle

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