Friday, February 28, 2025

These were Roger Ebert's Final Words

 




He looked ever peaceful

He looked ever youngAccepting his moment that soon would be doneHe wrote in a noteThat he passed to his wifeAs he felt him shedding the skin of this life
It said"There is a vastness that can't be containedOr described as a thought in the flesh of our brainIt's everything, everywhere, future and pastDissolving together in an eternal flash"
Worth no words to say that he loved her so muchHis hands seems to pass through whatever it touchedAnd the credits that rolled listed all of God's namesAs images floated away from their framesFrom their frames
-"Roger Ebert" by Clem Snider



Thursday, February 27, 2025

Spider John


 That is all my story

Been these thirty years since I took to the roadFind my precious jewel oneIf you see my lily, won't you give her my regardsTell her ol' spider got tangledIn the black web that he spun
You can tell her that ol' spider got tangledIn the black web that he spun



Monday, February 17, 2025

some peoples lives




 Some people's lives run down like clocks

One day they stop and that's all they've got

Some lives wear out like old tennis shoes
No one can use, well, it's sad but it's true
Didn't anybody tell them?
Didn't anybody see?
Didn't anybody love them
Like you love me?
      -Janis Ian

Monday, February 10, 2025

Don't let me come home a stranger





 Will there come a time when the memories fade.

and pass on with the long, long years,When the ties no longer bind?Lord save me from this darkest fear.Don't let me come home a stranger,I couldn't stand to be a stranger.

Thursday, February 6, 2025

the Gravity of the Situation

 



We blew past the army motorcade 

and it's abnormal load haulage

The gravity of the situation
came on us like a bit of new knowledge
The bubbliest bubble bath
broke down on the bank
The gravity of the situation
is why our old thought bubbles sank
humble and gracious

-Vic Chestnutt