Robert K Stephen (CSW)

RKS Literature: Mrs. Hosea Hussey’s Nantucket Clam Chowder (Herman Melville)

“However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us. But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh sweet friends! hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazelnuts, the whole enriched with butter, and salted pork cutContinue reading “RKS Literature: Mrs. Hosea Hussey’s Nantucket Clam Chowder (Herman Melville)”

RKS Literature: Who are these People from Nantucket? (Herman Melville)

“The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships, to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation. There is his home; there lies his business, which a Noah’s flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China. HeContinue reading “RKS Literature: Who are these People from Nantucket? (Herman Melville)”

RKS Literature: Christians Both Wicked and Miserable (Herman Melville)

“But, alas! The practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father’s heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor: and seeing what the sailors did there, and then going on to Nantucket, and seeing how they spent their wages in thatContinue reading “RKS Literature: Christians Both Wicked and Miserable (Herman Melville)”

RKS 2026 Wines of Portugal: Churchill’s Grafite 2021 From the Douro

40% Touriga Nacional, 30% Tinta Roriz and 30% Tinta Francesca which 30% was aged for 12 months in both new and used French oak the remainder kept in stainless steel vats. Aroma: Superhero black fruit particularly blackberry with pomegranate, blueberry, dark chocolate and just a hint of stewed rhubarb and blackball candy. Hint of someContinue reading “RKS 2026 Wines of Portugal: Churchill’s Grafite 2021 From the Douro”

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Reflections on THE CONVENTION”

Reflections on THE CONVENTION Could be in Singapore, Hong Kong or even North Bergen, New Jersey! Identical airwaves Sandwiched between “networking breaks” Not even blushingly Inept bilingually Majestically Christinically present 36,000 starving Ethiopians Beg sickly, Bibles hidden Struggling with the desire to brandish Meanwhile the political arena presents chinless wonders Cheered on by funeral supplyContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Reflections on THE CONVENTION””

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Vladimir Pooping”

Vladimir Pooping The little low ranked KGB Vlad the butcher of Bucha Murdered rivals and opposition silenced through tasty plutonium tea Or “falling out of windows” Pussy Riot isn’t in your good books For you and your oligarch crooks No confusion on your part with the idolatry Stalin or Catherine the Great Transforms corruption intoContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Vladimir Pooping””

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Optical Illusion Oasis”

Optical Illusion Oasis People sitting under the great Canadian fright Drinking heavily in the village of neon light Pretensions of affairs being outta sight Really nothing more than a herd of the uptight Things actually aren’t really alright Such a pathetic sight Strongest on a Saturday night People with nothing to do Except playing coolContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Optical Illusion Oasis””

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Piggies and politics”

Piggies and politics Look at all the little piggies Guzzling off the through Left piggies Centre piggies Right piggies But all the same Echoes of belches Similar but of the same intensity What the hell They all wallow in the same slop A fecal paradise And but a few enter the slaughterhouse atContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Piggies and politics””

RKS Literature: The Pulpit as the Prow of a Whaling Ship (Herman Melville)

“What could be more full of meaning? -For the pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God’s quick wrath is first decried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the GodContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Pulpit as the Prow of a Whaling Ship (Herman Melville)”

RKS Literature: The Women of New Bedford and Salem (Herman Melville)

“And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens. Elsewhere match the bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk,Continue reading “RKS Literature: The Women of New Bedford and Salem (Herman Melville)”