by phillipw | Mar 4, 2022 | BR, DE, GA, RU, S
“A Channel Passage” The ugliness of love, that sickness known To him and everyone, deserves to be Discussed and sonnetized. A groan With nausea upon the sickening sea Of hormones, yep, testosterone and such, Has been the poets’ tune forever since...
by phillipw | Oct 9, 2018 | S
Safe Spaces—“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” ~ ~ “When the Athenians sent leaders of their philosophy schools to Rome on an embassy in 155 BC, one of them, the sceptic Carneades, pleaded on one day for justice in politics, on the next day for injustice. Cato...
by phillipw | Sep 20, 2018 | S
Shàn in Abundance I know a woman in Beijing who cares. She cares for cats. She rescues them the way The Buddha might. She takes them in and shares Her tiny income with them. People flay And eat them in the south of China. She Protects abandoned cats. When I...