I am waiting for the steel gray
of winter, which I love. Rain
and fog to wet this valley, the bite
of a chilly wind. Blankets
and books, and long sleeps.
The smell of freshly baked
biscuits at dawn.
***
It hasn’t been a good year for peace.
***
“You’re dead to me.”
My older sister’s last words to me
in this life. She died a few days later,
alone, just as I feared it would be,
the reason why I was trying to get her
some kind of care. Other loved ones
tried as well, and she cut us all off
before the end. She lived far away
from us all. And now the carbon of Dottie
is different, changed. The universe
has swallowed her, as it will swallow me,
as it will swallow us all. This existence
is the temporary form of carbon in motion,
carbon that feels and thinks. Darkness
and light. Life and death. Existence
and nonexistence.
***
Salvation
is always a nice touch
to add to a life.
Isn't it interesting
you can only achieve it
on your own? No one
can give it to you.
Well, that's all for now,
it's time to get busy here.
james lee jobe
Grief lies close to the roots of laughter.
Robert Bly
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
LINKS
South Korean author Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel prize in literature
I haven’t read her, so I just ordered one of her novels.
‘Genius’: Atlanta poet Jericho Brown on winning $800,000 grant
I love Brown’s work; he deserves this!
T. S. Eliot’s Classic Modernist Poem The Waste Land Gets Adapted into Comic-Book Form
This works for me. I like graphic novels, why not poetry?
Today’s photos are mine. I consider myself a lousy photographer, but I’m working on that. I hope to eventually climb the photography ladder up to mediocre some day. You know, if I live that long. Thanks for reading this. Are you a subscriber? Thanks. If not, try it out. It’s easy.
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james lee jobe
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