TIME TURNS OVER by; W A Adams 1st verse Oh the rich keep on diggin’ to find more money The poor keep on spending to keep themselves poor And the folks who are happy keep laughing and chuckling And the people who worry keep walking the floor Chorus: And the rivers run dry and the […]
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Despair
May 16
Despair by Walter A Adams Sometimes I think I could lay me right down here and die And the traffic might stop long enough for my hearse to go by No one would notice the hole here where I used to be And I doubt anybody would wonder what happened to me. It seems like whats […]
What Women Want
May 16
When God drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, they walked untill they got tired, then Adam stopped to catch his breath and get his bearings. Eve plopped herself down on a rock, invented “The Look”, and directed it full force at Adam. The first man felt the hair on the back […]
The Two Things Maggots Won’t Eat
May 10
From Houston to the Gulf of Mexico the land lays flat as a flood plain, a flood plain for the Sea. Halfway between Houston and Galveston Island, on I-45, you come to Dickenson Bayou; a creek that meanders lazily to the east about five miles to Dickenson Bay, which opens on the Houston Ship Channel. Next to the […]
Greed
May 8
You hear a lot about greed these days, it being an election year. Usually the term is applied to business’; as in – The Greedy Big Oil Companies. The inference of course is that the Greedy Big Oil Companies jack up the price of oil at their whim, Just To Be Mean, and to take in […]
How Then Should We Pray
May 6
Should we pray standing up, kneeling, sitting, or prostrated on our face? Does your body’s’ position affect the reception of your prayers? How long should we pray? A minute, hour, the time it takes a tall candle to burn down and snuff itself out? What kind of language should we use? High formal English? Street slang? […]
Killing Grounds
May 1
In military parlance ‘The Killing Ground’ is that area inside an ambush where the enemy is destroyed. A classic ambush is a U-shaped pocket formed by your forces; the enemy ,by ruse or terrain or direction of travel, is drawn into the open end of the U. Once inside, the opening is closed behind them, and the […]
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