Yes. I think it might've been Leno that said, years ago: "If all of Madonna's lovers were laid end-to-end......I wouldn't be surprised."
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The health care system pretends their pills make people healthier when they don't. We were probably better off when everybody knew that the only option was healthy living. Sure the elites can try to ignore the problems but it's eventually a threat to them too. The system needs to incentivize prevention. Lifestyle changes out perform the pills.
I live in a neighborhood where every house has a front porch. Once upon a time half the neigbors were sitting on their porches greeting the other half of the neighbors walking by. Now all those porches are empty and nobody is walking by.
I don't like people. The last thing I want to do is greet (or be greeted by) one.
I do like dogs though.
What about cats? Do you like them or do they like you? I have two that will pester you if you came over.
I’m just 4 years in after 60 years of smoking. I had lung cancer, was operated on to remove upper lobe with tumor. Have been cancer free for 3 1/2 years. I visit oncologist twice a year. When he asks me if I smoke I say “no but I vape”, he checks the “no” box without further discussion. He is supposed to be one of the 10 best oncologist in the world. (I just read the plaque on the wall)
All that death stuff, totally sort of unproven. I mean, you can't feel eternal burning in a bubbling vat of tar, but like you CAN potentially,, do it dead. There are estate taxes, which is kind of taxing your genes and stuff.
You can only "know" death when you have sat down, and written him a letter, inviting him to afternoon coffee because you have been chasing death forever and you decide he MAY respond to politeness, and he does, and he shows up, and you learn ALL about death and how it works.... Or do you? DUN dun DUH, (That' scary music,.) Then he slinks of into the crowd and you lose him and you are like "Damn."
The problem is, that scenario is only possible in the most unpredictable of mediums, poetry, in which everything and nothing can happen at once, using very few words and multiple layers.
The coffee one needs pruning,. Excellent concept though and it does contain one of my favorite lines of "Series of Death" poems (I have many)
The invisible sinister creature, unbeaten even
By God’s own man, who died cursing his dad
as he hung from his cross.
That was a fun line. Also death speaks A TON of languages and when THIS happens:
It’s complicated..” His words hesitated, heavily
Accented. “Habla Espanol?”
My fury rose, it fought to win. At
Last I gasped, “You mean….
they’ve outsourced your job, too?”
I had fun accusing death of like, being cheap, Mexican labor.
You can also be very rude and very entertaining in poetry but there is a reason it's a dead art. Most people just skim. You gots to take your time... We don't have that much,,
I've got all the time in the world
to make you mine, etc.
I forget who the band is but it could also, oh yeah it's Depeche Mode, so it is DEFINITELY also about death,. LOL.
Death could be great or awful, unclear, but I enjoy vaping, twiddling my thumbs and well, cheating it with every breath
Anna
You can only "know" death when you have sat down, and written him a letter, inviting him to afternoon coffee because you have been chasing death forever and you decide he MAY respond to politeness, and he does, and he shows up, and you learn ALL about death and how it works.... Or do you? DUN dun DUH, (That' scary music,.) Then he slinks of into the crowd and you lose him and you are like "Damn."
The problem is, that scenario is only possible in the most unpredictable of mediums, poetry, in which everything and nothing can happen at once, using very few words and multiple layers.
The coffee one needs pruning,. Excellent concept though and it does contain one of my favorite lines of "Series of Death" poems (I have many)
The invisible sinister creature, unbeaten even
By God’s own man, who died cursing his dad
as he hung from his cross.
That was a fun line. Also death speaks A TON of languages and when THIS happens:
It’s complicated..” His words hesitated, heavily
Accented. “Habla Espanol?”
My fury rose, it fought to win. At
Last I gasped, “You mean….
they’ve outsourced your job, too?”
I had fun accusing death of like, being cheap, Mexican labor.
You can also be very rude and very entertaining in poetry but there is a reason it's a dead art. Most people just skim. You gots to take your time... We don't have that much,,
I've got all the time in the world
to make you mine, etc.
I forget who the band is but it could also, oh yeah it's Depeche Mode, so it is DEFINITELY also about death,. LOL.
Death could be great or awful, unclear, but I enjoy vaping, twiddling my thumbs and well, cheating it with every breath
Anna
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