The wrecking yards are still around. Access to them is not what it used to be. Everything is computerized, and parts are removed and stockpiled in warehouses. Need a part? Look online, and it will arrive at your door. No more roaming around freely to remove the part by yourself. That...
Very cool Melissa. Wildlife is nice to have around, provided they are not pet killers. We've seen a coyote wandering through our yard, not good. We have wild turkeys, white tailed deer, owls that live adjacent to our home, foxes, snakes, chipmunks (I despise them), squirrels, groundhogs...
When the laws are no longer obeyed (we're getting there), the ammunition has all been expended, and all the gender-changer-wanna-bees have changed gender, new births will cease to be, and humanity will end. And, Charleton Heston will return and find the Statue Of Liberty and the Apes will...
Sitting by the window of her convent, Sister Barbara opened a letter from home one evening. Inside the letter was a $100 bill her parents had sent.
Sister Barbara smiled at the gesture.
As she read the letter by the window, she noticed a shabbily dressed stranger leaning against the lamp post...
I love the line, "monkeys fighting over sticks." It sums up the unreality of the life we all believe in (please excuse the preposition at the end of my statement). Also, the monkeys and sticks scenario has recalled a memory of mine, the opening segment of 2001, A Space Odyssey, where the...
LIFE
Life, for the super rich
is muchlike a beautiful vase
full with fresh-cut tulips
flown in from Holland.
Life, for the rest,
is an empty, rusting tin
of pork and beans
with flies buzzing around.
STREETWISE
misty shadows of faded memories
decaying on the trodden landscape
of the abandoned sidewalk
crushed cigarettes, empty wine bottles
used condoms, spent syringes
and broken dreams
these are the seedy remnants
of lives on the downslide of life
these are the stuff of the unlucky
the...
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