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Monday, 30 November 2009

Sunday, 29 November 2009

  • A very good day.

    First of all, my hometown high school football team won the NY State championship.  Go Jacks!  Actually all 4 western NY teams won their state divisions. Yea for our end of the state!

    Second, our poor dysfunctional Buffalo Bills rumbled to life against the Dolphins. If you live out of town you may have noticed that the was NO snow. We have gone 234 days without snow.  Of course all that is about to change.

    Got my copies of the splendid poetry collection Honey & Darkness that Vexations edited.  Nicely done, sir!

    And lastly, (breaks out shit eating grin), my poem March 9th has been nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Award by the editors of Beyond Bones.






Thursday, 27 August 2009



  • ~In Memory of~

    Buffalo Firefighter Jonathan S. Croom
    and
    Lt. Charles W. "Chip" McCarthy, Jr.

    who perished early Monday morning in the line of duty.



    Firemens Prayer

    When I am called to duty, God
    Wherever flames may rage
    Give me strength to save a life
    Whatever be its age.

    Let me embrace a little child
    Before it is too late
    Or save an older person from
    The horror of that fate.

    Enable me to be alert
    And hear the weakest shout,
    and quickly and efficiently
    To put the fire out.

    I want to fill my calling
    To give the best in me,
    To guard my friend and neighbor
    And protect their property.

    And if, according to Your will,
    I have to lose my life,
    Please bless, with your protecting hand,
    My family and my wife.
             
                
        
                       


                         



Friday, 21 August 2009

  • jeez.

    Take a break and they fold ads into the subscriptions.


    Monday the first edition of Beyond Bones appears.  Yours truly has six poems in it.   
    I am so honored to be included in this company of awesome poets.




Monday, 20 July 2009

  • In Memoriam

    If you have heard any of the tracks from the “eclectic”   or “the Legend of Sleepy Hollow” CD’s, you heard the work of Bill Hicks.

    I sat for hours in front of a microphone reading my poetry over and over and over again –until I thought I had the words right.

    Bill was my sound guy.  He listened to all of those tracks over and over and over again. He engineered each one in order to achieve the best sound quality that could be managed from two home PC’s.  It was his idea to add sound effects.  He made the “Halloween” track into something special, just as he did on “Linda’s Favorite Story” and other tracks.  He brought the same talents to the table with the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” too.

    I teased him that he was “The Sound Guy of the Universe”  a reference to the Ruler of the Universe web site.

    I only knew Bill in the confines of the internet.  Never saw him.  Never spoke with him.  And yet when it came to making a spoken word CD, we were on the same page.


    Bill Hicks passed away today.


    The silence is deafening.


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