these are the heroes we offer
January 16, 2007
QUESTION AUTHORITY??!! (1972)
January 11, 2007
what the HELL does that mean!!??
QUESTION AUTHORITY!!??
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!
But Dad…
WHAT IF THE MEN ON D-DAY
QUESTIONED AUTHORITY!!??
OR THE SOLDIERS FIGHTING THE INDIANS
QUESTIONED AUTHORITY!!??
or the Hitler Youth,
or the Conquistadors,
or the Crusaders,
or the…
“SMACK” the big open hand hit his young face with a single head turning blow.
GO TO YOUR ROOM – MISTER QUESTION AUTHORITY!!!
AND THROW THAT FUCKING BUTTON IN THE GARBAGE NOW!!!
Missing Him
December 21, 2006
Let’s work backwards:
First, I will miss him just sitting in his chair
content to smile as if he had no needs –
connected by spirit, happy to be.
I will miss the shuffle of his brave feet
planting the walker ahead like an ice axe;
climbing mountains we could not see.
I will miss him presiding above the fondue
a sorcerer in the candle light,
stirring up batches of yuletide glee.
I will miss him saying grace at the helm
from which he would love, work, and lead
a life of no regret – a life of family.
This is a re-post of a poem I wrote last Christmas about my father in law who had just passed away that October. A poem about the night he died is here:The night Joe left
this is the fun we teach:
December 12, 2006
perhaps 7
December 12, 2006
at certain levels of being
video game killing
is still murder
soldier
December 2, 2006
no one wants to say
a soldier died in vain
but until there are no soldiers
we have all died in vain
he didn’t ask to be born
November 26, 2006
that little boy
born to a dirtbag
who was born to a dirtbag
who was once a little boy
who did not ask to be born…
my children’s hands
November 12, 2006
my children’s hands
will pass me along through time
as I did to them
dad wore hats
August 30, 2006
not when he should have
on a cold bright day
he would yell to us
where is your hat?
while the wind played
in his hair.
nor the way he should have
it was always
crunched atop his head
by a nephew or daughter
running around our backyard
at a picnic.
nor what he should have
into the dewy night
the adults would sing
heads touching in harmony
dad smoking a Chesterfield
wearing a bonnet.
QUESTION AUTHORITY??!!
August 19, 2006
what the HELL does that mean??!!
QUESTION AUTHORITY??!!
you don’t know
what the fuck you are talking about.
But Dad…
WHAT IF ! – the men who stormed Normandy Beach
QUESTIONED AUTHORITY??!!
or the soldiers who won the fucking West
QUESTIONED AUTHORITY??!!
or the Hitler Youth,
or the Conquistadors,
or the Crusaders,
or the…
“SMACK” the big open hand hit his young face with a single head turning blow.
GO TO YOUR ROOM – MISTER QUESTION AUTHORITY!!!
AND THROW THAT FUCKING BUTTON IN THE GARBAGE NOW!!!
qazse 