Author: whodeanny

Lilywhite Jesus

One of my faves from Myths.

 

It’s the lilywhite Jesus

I’m supposed to believe in

The evidence of things unseen

That guy in the pictures

Sometimes with a beard, always a mustache

Maybe lambs or a stream next to him

Long pretty robes almost, but never quite,

Obscuring his sandaled, pearl feet

The lilywhite Jesus

Who never lived a day on this,

The only Earth we have

© Gayle Force Press 2006

Gaping Hole Review

 Warehouse 13- Episode 2

 

The mystery to be solved involves a criminal ring that robs
banks. They rob banks in order to purchase a catalog of music. The music
catalog is in the same city (Chicago) as the robberies and the criminals. One
of the criminals works in the same building as the catalog.  The criminals do not steal the catalog,
they rob banks instead. So they can buy the catalog. No one asks them why.

 

 

 TP

Broken Promises #3


My path in the world

Of winding confusion

Spins into itself

Taking me with it

The markers

I’ve placed

Have too many meanings

Warnings are only scarecrows

Salutations a locust plague

The moon’s glow soothes me some

But the sun still sets

Before it’s time

© Gayle Force Press 2004

Steele doesn’t get it…

… in response to a question about bringing diversity into the GOP, Michael Steele responded (with help from someone off camera who shouted something about collard greens) that he'd bring the fried chicken and potato salad. 

Of course, I'm not certain why those foods denote Blackness as opposed to Southerness but if they did not, there would have been no reason for Steele to have mentioned them. 


Where have all the smart Republicans gone? 

TP

Going Home

I expected "Going Home" to be in Myths but it will have to wait for another book. Good news, bad news.

 

 

Houses formerly homes

Pervade my memory

Prodding me to allow my mind entry

With the skeleton key of imagination

So I can amble

Up wooden stairs sullen

In their creaking howls

That lead me into dusty rooms

Anchored by hingeless doors

Standing opposite the dilapidated

Windows through which I saw the world

Each crack in the sill

Allowing a new direction

For my mind to wander

In youth just as today

© Gayle Force Press 2006

What next?

The best quote I've seen about Sarah Palin so far…


"[Sarah Palin] may resurface as a latter-day Hannity or she may
found some Palin-specific Anti-Defamation League dedicated to calling out
obscure bloggers who've written mean things about her. But what very little
shot she had as a future presidential candidate (and it was a much longer shot
than I think many realized) is over. She's done. She's back to what she was —
a small person looking for someone to be angry at."

Josh Marshall 

 


For Better or Worse


I didn’t remember his name

No, that’s not true

 

Mark Linn-Baker

 

What a funny, unforgettable name

I didn’t care to remember it I suppose

He didn’t matter to me

Really this Mark Linn-Baker was just there

Anchored in my brain

Alongside Dana Plato, Lisa Whelchel, Ken Kercheval, Roxie
Roker

 

And the rest of the litany of not quite stars

That worked so hard to barely imprint themselves

On my consciousness

The lot of them barely identifiable as individual entities

Except as who they pretended to be

And like me that’s the only important reality

The masks we wear for better or worse

 

 

© Gayle
Force Press 2006

 

 

 

 

Orbitz supports equality

In a new Orbitz commercial featuring four guys on the golf
course, one of them is wearing a shirt with a Human Rights Campaign logo
visible. There’s nothing overt about the commercial, the guy is not marked as
gay, it’s just part of his outfit to support marriage equality. Good stuff.

 

 TP