Abraham Lincoln was our first poe… who really knew how to turn a phra… but the best one of all has to do… “We can complain that rose bushes… or we can celebrate that thorn bus…
Tracy Chapman wrote a song late i… which deserves to endure forever,… and a plaintive story about the di… that Life can sometimes bring. It received lots of airplay in the…
When I was a kid in the 1970s When there were two types of gas a… Regular and Unleaded. The Unleaded kind cost more, So most people used Regular inste…
With floodwaters up to her waist A woman in Florida scrolls through her smartphone. Those devices really have taken over our lives,
July 19, 2013 Chicago, Illinois On a brutally hot night Ed stood beneath the scoreboard of the ballpark he loves
His football team wore gold and bl… For the city that makes our steel Success was the fruit of their lab… Four Super Bowl trophies are real
That the ear hears something but the eyes and the brain can’t sort it all out will forever be a problem for me.
What 18 year-old, still only a kid himself, walks into an elementary school and starts firing? Columbine, Sandy Hook,
A limerick is a snappy rhyme That doesn’t take up too much time Make Line 3 sound like Line 4 And then just add one more The result is a poem sublime
Exploding rockets Raining debris all over So sad for Elon!
Chicago’s party of the summer is the Pride parade up north It’s boozier than St. Patrick’s… Less explosive than the 4th Lots of people dance and play
Our earth is now more dry and warm Than we’ve ever seen before. And climate trends suggest that We’ll see this even more. As the planet dries, to great exte…
Gil Scott-Heron a poet who made the first rap reco… said the problem with peace is that there was no money to be made in it.
Supporters of the former president who pack his rallies swallow his pronouncements whole and believe there was some “great”… that can be attained again
2024 will be culture wars all day, every day so we might as well get it started on Day One. Senator Tuberville would be upset
