Even with my earbuds in
Little Johnny Jewel
Has the local dogs barking
Like being young, in love with Backstreets
Before time crawled in three-hour increments

Break the grid with me
So inaction’s not complicity
Some gout, some doubt
When I’m out and about
Looking for a G-spout

My skills are confined these days
To sentences, if not phrases
Bigger frames, fuller stories … no way
Like someone said of Miami Vice
No real story development at play

Some friends never fed their heads
Like leaders who never drink
Some think we’re artists and don’t look back
The ocean snob sees a lake visit as a piss bath
And weird communal wrath

A neighbor lacks self-awareness
His pickleball courts are just one sign
I had to repost: The Impact of the Self-Awareness Process on Learning and Leading
He’ll trudge into the kitchen
Swatting at feedback loops

On TV, a purported liberal pundit says US presidents have never cozied up to autocrats
Right
Now, as always, they are at war against Islam
TV is mostly ads interspersed with a few minutes of content
“Built for Apple Intelligence to help you write, express yourself, and get things done effortlessly”

Following Vancian logic that childless women have no stake in future
The first suspects in school shootings will be homeschoolers
As LinkedIn pros on Thanksgiving
Give thanks for collaboration and resilience
I use the free version

They’ll be carrying antimatter in trucks across Europe
To see why it vanished from earth
Stretching the Tren Maya to the Lobito Corridor
All in Dennis Silvio’s secret book
About his dark days with the Rise of the Moors