Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

History is where tensions were.

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals