Happy birthday, Johny

 May all your wishes come true

Maybe this

 I've tasted hunger, felt the tooth
Saw spectral figures from my youth
In dreams, then I awoke
Kids, don't smoke

I don't need to slash the night
To violate it with my light
The moon's already made its stroke
Kids, don't smoke

Someone’s here. I start to bark
In the quiet of the dark
A warning, challenge or a joke?
Kids, don’t smoke

Through the darkness and the thickness
I’ve felt the coming of the sickness
Sticky as a rum & coke
Kids, don’t smoke

8 October 2026

 

 It occurred to me that your previous verse could be adapted to mine, Jymn:

I don't need to slash the night
To violate it with my light
The moon's already made its stroke
Kids, don't smoke

Today's Verse: 5 October 2026

There are no two sides to this argument
It's a perfect sphere of jelly fat
Extruded from a tube of blind faith

Work in Progress (or maybe just Today's Verse, 9/30/26)

 I've tasted hunger, felt the tooth
Saw spectral figures from my youth
In dreams, then I awoke
Kids, don't smoke

And the hits just keep on coming

 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcaaG5wRw6f/

Waiting for the light to change

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbvSc-KT6Qk/?igsh=MXYzMDc4cHMzMjZnNQ==

Today's Verse: 14 July 2026

I will not slash the night

With my bright light

It's the moon's job

To violate, penetrate

And reveal

Step by step

And back again.

I'm trying to tell you something,

So you understand.

Meaning by telling.

********************************

I'm barking at one who's come uninvited.

Warning, a challenge, an objection.

I hope it works.

*********************************

Sleeping's also a nice way to live.

You can bring me flowers but never ever bring me down

 

"Hope ya like them eats!"

 

Flame on

 

Tree of Liberty

Tree of Liberty

There is a place where the stream runs deep

A place where children safely sleep

A place where love has set its roots

And puts forth many worthy fruits

A place that hatred can’t control

A place of refuge for the soul

That’s where you lived, through love and pain

And we shall see you once again

Upon your boat or at the wheel

Exploring what is truly real

For you pursued reality
In its essentiality

And now the path on which you go

Is one that we shall tread also

There is a place for those who love 

Whose hearts and minds are true and free
They stand with eyes that gaze above

Beneath the Tree of Liberty

I'm alive and I'm home

 

Today's Verse: 13 May 2026

Nothing's next
The last is past

It's not coming back

Let's conclude it's complicated

Getting away with it

In the mind's sporting court

I'll take the benefit of the doubt

And explore the low and high ways'

Endless networks of decision

Not knowing where I am

How I win and lose each time

By popular demand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRBkbXq4v4U

Today's Verse: 4 May 2026

Now it starts
Now begins

Here it comes

It's starting now

It's sinking in

A steady downpour

In the dark

Stirs the sleeper

With its sound

Turns earth to mud

And persistent

Drives fruit unready

To the ground

Still here

 

Like Jolly Chimp, Monkey's psycho-adventures continue.

Bosse-de-Nage était un singe papillon, moins cyno-qu'hydrocéphale, et moins intelligent, pour cette tare, que ses pareils...<<Ha ha>>, disait-il en français, et il n'ajoutait rien davantage.

    --Alfred Jarry, Gestes et opinion du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien

Found it!

 

Today's Verse: 5 February 2026

Today's Verse: 3 February 2026

If Thursday became Wednesday

How would we know

What else changed

More or less right

Moved

More or less left

Upset belief

Undermine trust

Confound conviction

La de da

Looks like I'll be joining the rest of you in retirement

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13985359/california-college-of-the-arts-closing-vanderbilt-university

Nice review

https://opendosa.in/what-is-a-sakkath-voice-ask-better-questions-says-rumi-harish/