by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | Ho, IS, LO, LU, RO
Testosterone Trumps Religions “Pleasure is the most insolent of all things; and … in amatory enjoyments, which are said to be the most powerful of all, even perjury has been pardoned by the Gods, as if pleasure was like a child, incapable of...
by phillipw | Jan 24, 2020 | IS, PR, RA
[This is about one of the guards at the entrance to the Rare Books and Music Reading Room.] Besides, I’m the Foreigner I like him for his gentle, almost sly Smile, nearly shy, but, no, not quite. A smile That’s mostly in the lips but in the eye Is boosted on a face...
by phillipw | Jan 11, 2020 | IS, VU
A Sudden Island http://news.yahoo.com/satellite-photo-shows-island-rising-earths-red-sea-170703840.html A sudden island surges from the sea Where once low waves were rulers of the heights. A plume of smoke like Lucifer’s goatee Spreads white across the...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | IS
Deformities It’s tripled Deuteronomy in length That Allah-spawned Koran, iron nippled In feeling, more than ninety proof in strength. Anyone who loves it ends up crippled By crushing combinations of its force And numbness at the boring sameness of It to...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2019 | IS
Infidel Epiphany To be as careless as a Yank, careful As French enigmas in their clipped hedge lines, As focused as Italian nuns, prayerful In sinless sins, as strict as Prussian spines In taut formation—all these were beyond Him. Adjectives were only...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2019 | IS
Coincidental Consequence “God’s veil over things makes them all riddles.” Herzog, 92 It turns out that the reason women wear Hijab in Islam is that Allah first Adopted it Himself to hide the flare Of His innate blaze that otherwise would burst The eyes of all His...
