Spartan Bar
Saturday, November 02, 2024
Monday, October 28, 2024
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Night Coffee
The sun set long ago
The dusk’s already gone
The Milly Way’s spread overhead
We may never see the dawn
Oh night coffee
Lit up only by starlight
Let’s brew another pot
And drink coffee through the night
I like mine sweet and creamy
You like yours straight & black
We’ll go screaming through the night
Like Cassidy & Kerouac
Oh night coffee,
Our nocturnal delight
Let’s brew another pot
And drink coffee through the night
Folks in bed
Counting sheep
We live our dreams
While they’re asleep
The night lies out before us
Our heads are strong and clear
We’ll go flying through the darkness
Up beyond the stratosphere
Oh night coffee
Like Charles Lindbergh on his flight
Let’s make another pot of coffee
And keep flying through the night
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Today's Verse: 20 August 2024
What would it say?
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Today's Verse: 3 May and 11 July 2024
Friday, July 05, 2024
Recollections of a Shining Youth
When we were young
We vowed that we’d shine
As brightly as the sun
We’d stand and defy
In fact we’d outshine
Every star in the sky
When the stars saw us try
So jealous were they
Of their place in the sky
They told us up here
By night or by day
We don’t belong in their sphere
Ah but the Sun by his grace
Froze Time’s mad race
Stood still in his place
Whatever we were meant to be
Just for one moment we could see
That we shone for all eternity
And now we’ve grown old
We look back and we know
If we weren’t really gold
If we popped or we flopped
We stepped out of the show
For us just once time stopped
We glowed and we shone and time stopped
Friday, June 14, 2024
Ode to the Wheel
A circle on a stick. But someone invented it.
We know this because we’re always being told not
to re-invent it. “No need to re-invent the wheel,”
we’re told. Because it’s so basic. A simple machine.
The circle is the simplest shape, the most perfect form,
all the points equidistant from a single point.
It’s how the universe should work. Revolving
without rolling. And is there rolling without wheels?
There are no wheels in nature. Someone had to invent it.
But once you’ve seen it, of course you want to invent it.
Put it a circle on a stick and we can use it to move things.
The circle, the perfect shape, the perfect machine.
We all know nothing’s really round, but what if
you could make something nearly round. Nearly perfect.
Like the human heart, so beautiful, so imperfect.
But if you could make it frictionless, it could
carry anything. Love, you mean. Yes of course,
that was invented a long time ago. Simple,
perfect, frictionless. If only. Don’t tell me
there’s no need to re-invent it. Re-inventing
is what we all need to do, every generation,
every person, every lover. The wheel will turn.
We’ll invent it. Let it turn. Reinvent it.