Whatever happenedTo the tomorrowOf yesterday? Heroes with sinews of syntaxAnd swords quenched in syllogismCruise the blooded highwaysOf information. The Madmen danceTo the Dark Angels’ harping;Happiness is dopamineAnd all life is suffering Tamagochi and karaoke;Ban books and censor TVBut don’t make me raise my kids Logic bombs and Behrer bonds,Anthrax and “I love you” Whatever happenedTo …
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The First Ballad of Avril the Legionnaire
The people at People and E! MagazineThought they’d seen every celebrity sceneAnd knew all the fads that came with each seasonBut even the Enquirer was stumped for a reasonWhen Avril Lavigne joined the French Foreign Legion. She made up her face, and kept her face plainAs she listened, aghast, to the recruiter explain:“There’s been some …
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Natasha
When I was lonelyWhen I had retreated from the worldYou found meYou saw me somehow without seeingAnd touched my stilling heart Angel of strange skiesStill I’ve not plumbed the deeps of your soulBut your eyesReturned the sunlight to my beingEnflamed my singing heart And for the first time in my lifeI smile.
Moment
To my brothers in arms, and all who stand against tyranny and terror DawnThe Lustral Water breaks goldenBeyond the starred and scarred Horizon Celestial fire arcsAnd throws back the tyranny of NightClouds of rose and coralBring tears from once-young eyes There is no Self, there is no OtherThere is not Time, nor PlaceAnd that golden, …
Veritas
Unhallowed, this immortal truthIs known alike by fool and sage:That the green and golden dreams of youthBecome the grey regrets of ageAnd no Nepenthe’ will assuageA man whose broken soulFlitters in it’s failing cageFor want of being whole. There is a second, nobler truthTaught by beggar-men and priests;A simple way to savor youthAnd save, of …
The Euphonic Plague
Desert of souls unsungMiasma of words unwovenI surveyThe victims ofThe Euphonic Plague Wandering the barren mindscapeI dispatchApathetic monstersWith deadly double-edged daggersOf cold-forged irony. I see light aheadNot hope…Twin points of fallenAngelfireSmoldering in the darkness Why must that damned AbyssKeep staring back into me?
Mine
She loves me well, her sweet caressDoth linger on my beaded cheekWhile she will with tender wrath undressMy deepest wound–that blooded streakOn which she feeds, and keeps me weakThough she every day unflesh my bonesHer eyes a crueler vengeance wreakWith the dust of my heart, and with her ownShe chokes to death my mangled moans …
23 April 2006
Goodness, goodness.Another drill gone. The unit did a pepper-spray certification, but fortunately I didn’t have do it; my certificate of contamination is permanent (for the military). Instead, I was one of the testers. You see, when you do this type of certification, you get sprayed and then have to perform a set of physical tasks. …
17 April 2006
Howdy! Well, I’ve been back from Germany for over a week now, and my apartment is still trashed from my frenetic burst of packing the night before I left. Admittedly, I’ve had less time actually in my apartment than the full week–I managed to lose my keyring somewhere in Germany and I spent three days …
26 August 2005
Well, the big news this week was going to be that W. “Hock” Hochheim, one of the great CQC instructors anywhere, is giving a seminar in Kansas City in September and that I would be attending. Instead, that has been overshadowed by the fact my good friend and kali instructor, Mike Olive, will be taking …
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