The Haunted Storeroom

There’s an attic room inside my mind For all the things I wish undone And all the ways I’ve been unkind And fights I should not have begun. I enter it from time to time And let my angry ghosts complain About my life of thoughtless crime And then I lock it up again.

Reeling Around The Color Wheel

African Americans Must now be known as Black. Don’t forget the capital B. Are Native Americans Red? Well, anyone can see They’re also tan – use a capital T? Should Hispanics be Brown? In Spanish it’s Marron, And comes in many hues. Folks from East Asia Aren’t Yellow, they are Beige. Should Caucasians like me

Religion

Religion I spent a good many of my childhood  mornings squirming in Protestant pews. My parents were WASPs, and church attendance was part of the WASPian routine.. Dad just went to church for weddings and funerals; he was a gambler, and believed only in Lady Luck, who sometimes even behaved like a lady for him.

The Whangdoodle

The Whangdoodle 1. An imaginary creature of undefined character; a bugbear. 2. One that whangs excessively, loudly and angrily complaining about stuff and nonsense, poppycock, and frippery. 3. A person one does not wish to mention. 4. A wingnut Republican politician.