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Tag Archives: Beer
Skipping Stones
I last time I had skipped a stone across the water I was seventeen it was the waning weeks before my senior year of high school on a hot summer evening after a hard days work on the farm still … Continue reading
stand-up guy
no one thinks I’m funny and I’m running out of money telling jokes in this dive and I can’t take 9-to-5 only 5 people in here drinking fifty cent draught beer and no one laughs or cheers just shoot shit … Continue reading
coffee, chocolate & ice cream
coffee, chocolate & ice cream replaced cocaine, liquor and nicotine I won’t pass that way again I don’t need those kinds of friends now I’ve got 3 dogs that I walk each day they’re my goddesses, it’s how I … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, blues, capitalism, chocolate, church, coffee, collateral damage, death, democracy, depression, dogs, dreams, empire, farm, farming, farms, god, happiness, hawaii, healing, hope, human rights, humanity, life, love, nature, poem, Poetry, rain, religion, stars, suicide, taxes, tears, time, truth, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged America, american dream, Beer, coffee, collateral damage, death, democracy, dogs, dreams, empire, farming, happiness, hawaii, iraq, life, love, music, Peace, poem, poetry, suicide, violence, war, war tax resistance, whiskey, writing
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pray
Barely alive dive in can’t win bee hive buzzing getting too loud flying through these clouds of chemicals blinding me drive away noise is all I hear violence all I see what’s that you say as you pray to your TV … Continue reading
Posted in poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged Afghanistan, America, american dream, Beer, bigotry, CNN, collateral damage, death, Edward Bernays, empire, humanity, ignorance, iraq, love, Peace, poem, poetry, Propaganda, suicide, truth, Vietnam, war
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Daily Memories
so, it’s Memorial Day sales again and I remember when Cub Scout packs would take up the back of the parade and families would struggle to find shade along Main Street in late May with temperatures rising we shuffled our … Continue reading
Posted in 9/11, addiction, Afghanistan, alcohol, america, american dream, anxiety, beer, bigotry, blood, capitalism, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, education, Edward Bernays, empire, family, fear, freedom, guilt, hate, hatred, heroes, history, hope, Howard Zinn, human rights, humanity, ignorance, imagine, Iraq, justice, Korea, Liberty, life, love, media, Memorial Day, memories, peace, poem, Poetry, poverty, propaganda, solidarity, suicide, truth, Uncategorized, veterans, veterans for peace, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, whiskey, wine, working class, world war one, world war two, writing, yellow ribbons
Tagged addiction, Afghanistan, America, american dream, anxiety, Beer, bigotry, bread and circuses, CNN, collateral damage, death, democracy, depression, dreams, Edward Bernays, empire, FOX, freedom, humanity, ignorance, iraq, justice, love, Memorial Day, memories, Peace, poem, poetry, poverty, Propaganda, racism, suicide, truth, veterans, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam, war, whiskey, World War One, World War Two
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Patriotic Country Song
Nine-eleven nine-eleven Budweiser and apple pie nine-eleven nine-eleven I think about it and start to cry nine-eleven nine-eleven left old glory tattered and torn nine-eleven nine-eleven just four years after kids were born, kids who fight and die for freedom … Continue reading
Biergarten
Pint after pint at beer gardens and halls, washing away decades of history, tales only of Bavarian kings and biergarten gals serving another round now have sorrows to drown too, but they have too much work to do resting a … Continue reading
Posted in alcohol, america, american dream, Bavaria, beer, beer garden, Biergarten, capitalism, drunk, Germany, Munich, poem, Poetry, second job, working class, world war two
Tagged America, american dream, Bavaria, Beer, beer garden, beer gardens, biergarten, capitalism, Germany, Munich, poem, poetry, second job, tourism, Travel
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Thoughts on Armistice (Veterans) Day
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month… Armistice Day, the end of “the war to end all wars”…peace between nations… it went on to become, not a day to commemorate the armistice, but to ‘honor veterans … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, Afghanistan, america, american dream, anxiety, beer, collateral damage, death, depression, dreams, Edward Bernays, fear, Iraq, iraq veterans against the war, suicide, war, working class, world war one, world war two
Tagged addiction, Afghanistan, America, american dream, anxiety, Beer, bread and circuses, CNN, collateral damage, death, democracy, depleted uranium, depression, dreams, Dresden, Edward Bernays, empire, freedom, howard zinn, iraq, Iraq Veterans Against the War, suicide, veterans, Veterans for Peace, war, world war 1, World War Two
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Johnny’s All Done Marching
(With a few lines from the patriotic WW1 song “Over There” written by George M. Cohan in April 1917. Americans believed at that time that the war would be short and the song reflected that expectation) Johnny’s out of luck … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, Afghanistan, america, american dream, beer, broken heart, collateral damage, death, dreams, Iraq, poem, Poetry, suicide, war, whiskey, working class, WW1
Tagged addiction, Afghanistan, America, american dream, Beer, broken heart, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, iraq, poem, poetry, suicide, war, whiskey, WW1
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