Blake at Felpham He was arrested and charged With a capital crime For insulting a soldier Who'd wandered Into his garden By mistake. History’s a bitch.

What? My poetry is an admission that I wish I were a musician.

Why? Because I can and this is America.

Gilding for the Crypt 2: Black Widowr

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Doubles: Berwyn- North Riverside Water Commission @Studio City, CHI #manholecovermonday @robertloerzel.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @rogersparkman.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social @kevinirvine.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social

The Middle Pip I mean to live like the middle Pip danced: the outside dudes were doing. The middle Pip just was. Being.

Just heard historian Tom Holland refer to Gilgamesh as "the Mayor Daley" of Uruk. I can dig it (snapping finger emoji).

On to Chicago My dad was stretched On the sofa under the front windows Of our Benedetti split-level one Pleasant summer morning reading The Sun-Times. The headline Said KENNEDY IS SHOT. I was seven, and I asked, “Didn’t they already shoot him?” He said, softly, “That was his brother.”

R. S. Thomas, from “Lore.”

Tusk

OK the networks are caving but you can ALWAYS RELY on The Chicago Grindhouse! Today's featured short: "Interpretive Jazz Dance to the Match Game Theme", performed & tightly choreographed by Yours Truly. youtu.be/rJKB6DnYTes?...

Yet upon a time in the land of the spree people everywhere still fight to be free I'M J.J. TINDALL & I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE youtu.be/TnUJzwliZOY?...

WTF?!

The Bell #manholecovermonday @rogersparkman.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @robertloerzel.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social @kevinirvine.bsky.social

TIME OF THE ASSASSINS?! "Khan at Gaza" now playing at the Chicago Grindhouse. youtu.be/kiDyX2V-S94?...

If you are in Chicago, you should go see this hilarious musical that has nothing to do with Stephen King! The next two Fridays at the Facility Theater!

Uncle Sam's Beard

Three Poems

I Can’t Not See O say: can you See? Not see? Wait: can you Not see? I can’t Not see, if You see. SEE? I can’t Not see. CAN’T! NOT SEE. Come on, man.

"Like a Rembrandt in Candlelight: A Cinepoem" now at YouTube: youtu.be/IbMX0HVFQuU?...

AT&T Cable, ma'am, CHI Loop (next to a line of snowplows) #manholecovermonday @rogersparkman.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @robertloerzel.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social @kevinirvine.bsky.social @giegerj.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social

Gilding for the Crypt

Hey lemme askya this if a riot doesn't happen in a city did it happen?

Snowplows & Staties What’s the deal w/the snowplows in summer? Staties in repose, chatting the city drivers up: S’up? Whither mayhem? You’da thunk there was A riot goin’ on.

WOO HOO! Thank you @rickkogan.bsky.social 🕺🕺🕺

My Rebellion: HOURS at Printer's Row followed by AFTER HOURS w/Reader peeps near U. of C. Midway. That's how I both rock, and roll.🕺🕺🕺

OK, wait: Mies was easily as big a blowhard as Wright, just w/less words. Nothing about the work. When I heard that Moholy got on Mies' TIT I loved Moholy even MORE. Moholy is MY man! "Jealousy," 1927, George Eastman collection, Wiki Images.🕺

Flowers for Bayonets I’m leaving mine In my fucking Garden.

THIS JUST IN for Printer's Row (sponsored this year by the IL Nat'l Guard!), my newest Cinepoem, also now playing at the Chicago Grindhouse. "Like a Rembrandt in Candlelight" @jclillig2.bsky.social @gerrybrennan.bsky.social @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social youtu.be/IbMX0HVFQuU?...

Artists & Repertoire, IL Prairie Path, Maywood #manholecovermonday @giegerj.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social @sparrersway.bsky.social @robertloerzel.bsky.social @rogersparkman.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social @kevinirvine.bsky.social

I always get nervous the week of Printer's Row but this year thank GOD they're calling in the National Guard.

Wait, are the National Guard gonna be at, like, Printer's Row? They're not going to Printer's Row, right? That can't be right...

Love Sonnet to Don Everly Hello, love: I, too, am a man Of constant sorrow. Rock & Roll can still keep me young, This can still happen to me! Ok real sonnets are pretty hard. I’ve always had a problem With commitment.

Come on, man, that's two HARD rhymes! Lyric Modernism: it's fun.🕺

Christmas in Chicago, 1789 The bleak moon over the creek glistened on the black water streaming through flurries and starlight. Wolves listened.

Is That You, John Wayne?

I shouted out WHO'S PHARAOH NOW? When after all, after all...

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?! Now playing at the Chicago Grindhouse: "Napoleon at Gaza" @rickkogan.bsky.social youtu.be/2zsR0caysyE?...

My Time with the Illinois National Guard for Tab Hunter My girlfriend found an ad For a cattle call chorus dancer Audition at the Pontiac Armory. She washed out, I made movie history. I don’t remember Any tanks.

So, these two Chicago Catholics walk into a podcast... youtu.be/yxhA4ec4Y1Q?...

This one is "domestic terrorism"?! This one?!

Big job ahead of me today trying to determine which are more numerous: white people being wrongly deported or Shithole Countries w/o an independent central bank. Wish me luck!

The Goodbye Girl She left then she came back then she left again of course?!

Studio tanning.🎸

Word #manholecovermonday @sparrersway.bsky.social @robertloerzel.bsky.social @rogersparkman.bsky.social @willpunctuate.bsky.social @giegerj.bsky.social @kevinirvine.bsky.social

Tiananmen That's it. That's the poem.

REWRITE: Napoleon at Paris Influencers said "give them a whiff of grapeshot" to quell to protests.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?! youtu.be/2zsR0caysyE?...