Where my pen went today
to memories paid forward.

The hope, the expectation, today
might repeat,
not tomorrow
but a full lifetime forward,
a future reprise.
I was born into a world of
future reprises.

Before neo-liberals
& Oligarchs stole it all away
…
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#InkMine #ache #smear #linear #spry #quake #prettier
Smear of blood down my side
Ache to more than my pride
Shaking and quaking of my limbs
Hope for my future dims
Delusion that I was ever that spry
Dream that I was prettier—a linear lie
Life I set out to conquer
Reality that I’m just a honker

nothing is linear
the river reaches the sea
by changing its mind

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my 📷

you could choose
someone prettier
more spry
to make your heart quake
but I prefer the ache
between rib bones
the sighs
nonlinear
between heartbeats
the moment
you succumb to mine

#inkMine

Once painful inevitability set in
we had to get on with it

Make the best of the bad situation
that our inattention did create
and visit the frickin dentist

Now we gotta finally respect
the destined consequence
of woeful avoidance neglect

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Mining some ink? spill it
#prompts Monday Sept 28, 2026

Weekly #Prompt - ACHE SMEAR LINEAR SPRY QUAKE PRETTIER

** please! No AI **
**no AI words photos or art**

post with hashtag: #inkMine

Not slaking pit, nor
priggish #purifying fire,
can scour this damned spot.

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the herd's calculation
…
on the savanna
for the species to survive
safety is in numbers

the herds know well this truth
and some must be sacrificed
…
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#haiku #tanka #savanna #herds

Too much time spent
in the masculine tense
can lead to conflict
as we boys engage
in a pissing contest
to declare our dominance
over the lesser males
looking on with envy
at the majesty and #purity
of our magical
reality defying hose

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I trust him
insofar as
I can throw him

#inkMine

They beckon me
bathe in the river,
sanctified by a waved hand,
the hand famed for striking
the Adversary, come in quiet hours
wearing his wife’s face
and cries with her voice.

He says to me,
“Wash and become #pure,”
as though he wasn’t spoiled already.

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An old one ✍🏼

The Saddest Poem I Ever Wrote- 4/24/23

It makes me sad
The way I love you
It’s the love I should
Give to Me

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The fields are black
yielding a harvest of woe
cause charred grain
leaves a bitter aftertaste

Some blame the fire
which scorched the Earth
on the scourge of climate change

This can be debated
whether the famine was self created
but the silos today
are as empty as our bellies

#fromoneline #inkmine

“I Will Survive”
gay anthem of our generation –
we did

#inkmine
#senryusunday

in full
survival mode
artic fox.
#inkmine #senryu

Raging gusts test
the chimney’s flames,
biting cold forcing
the tenacious birch to renounce,
footsteps fading beneath
the heavy snowfall,
a lonesome swallow perches
on a forgotten postbox
its cry drifting into silence.
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