Author: whodeanny

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We're proud and happy to announce that Gayle Force Press is up and running! Our website gayleforcepress.com is online and Myths is available for purchase as is MOSAIC. 

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Strange Fruit

 

 

I am the strange

Forbidden fruit of a country

That takes from the poor

In order to give more to the rich

 

The truly great divides

Are between the poor and the rich

The Cursed and The Blessed

 

Among the worst realities of America

Is this newly recognized truism

The only treason is class warfare

 

Roughly translated

Being poor

And getting mad about it

 

Illegal wars

Stolen elections

Corporate malfeasance

Racist senators

Rigged rebuilding contracts

 

 

These high crimes

These more than misdemeanors

Are all excused and quickly forgotten

As we continue to grease

The always dirty palms

Of America’s master class

 

Why does money always matter

More than the people who need it

Can We the People ever become more

Than the powerful allow

More than we imagine for ourselves

 

 

© Gayle Force Press 2008

 

For Morning to Come

A poem from Myths

It’s been years

Since I’ve been so desperate

For morning to come

Counting minutes takes hours

And each brief burst of sleep

Is startled away by a glance

At the slow moving clock

I’ve grasped at every light

And turned the clamor of wind

Into you at my doorstep

Still, none of the tricks

My mind needs to play tonight

Can replace the moon

With sun

Or bring you back to me

Until night has finished

Allowing morning, and you,

To truly arrive

© Gayle Force Press 2004

Rambis replacing McHale

 

I have been expecting to see something about this since it happened but so far nothing so here goes…

Isn't it wonderfully ironic that it's Kurt Rambis who is replacing Kevin McHale as the coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves? After all, in the most famous NBA scene of violenceof the 1980s, it was McHale who gave Rambis a flying clothesline in the NBA Finals. The Barry Windham move changed the tenor of the series and helped lead Boston to the title.

Now Rambis gets the job McHale a) wanted to keep and b) proved he could perform competently. I would feel badly for McHale if he hadn't deserved the pink slip to be delievered several years earlier. Good luck Rambis. McHale was such a bad GM coaching this team may feel much more painful than the clothesline 25 years ago.

 

 

TP

Smufus in a Dream

It took me some time,

A little too much really,

To recognize that my dream

Was horribly broken

Of course the faces weren’t quite right

But that’s to be expected

This time though

Some of the faces

Were dead ones

An old friend’s father,

I saw him interred,

just after saying his marriage vows

ready to dance with his widowed grandma

Who can’t really be alive

Somehow I knew

That if I’d dreamed a little longer

My favorite dead friend,

Smufus, would have interrupted,

Doing his chants

Or a crazy little dance

Very inappropriate

For the wedding

Of a friend’s dead father

 

 

© Gayle Force Press 2004