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””
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
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)”
RKS Literature: The Gold Rush of Whaling in New Bedford (Herman Melville)
“There weekly arrive in this town scores of Green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery. They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance. Many are green as the Green Mountains whence theyContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Gold Rush of Whaling in New Bedford (Herman Melville)”
RKS ONTARIO 2026 Wine: Magnotta 2021 Toro Negro Cabernet Sauvignon: Baco Noir Suffering a Neurological Hemorrhage
Ontario Cabernet Sauvignon as a single varietal seldom works unless skillful use of oak is involved and when it is it can be quite good. This one was aged in 225 litre new French oak barriques for two years. More often you will find Ontario Cabernet Sauvignon “utilized” in a blend. So there is alwaysContinue reading “RKS ONTARIO 2026 Wine: Magnotta 2021 Toro Negro Cabernet Sauvignon: Baco Noir Suffering a Neurological Hemorrhage”
RKS 2026 EURO Film: “Mirrors No. 3”: Healing Effect of the Intersection of Miseries
Laura (Paula Beer), a very unhappy looking Laura, opens the film peering over the edge of a bridge staring at the water below. There is no pedestrian walkway on this bridge so she is where she shouldn’t be and as cars speed by with horns blaring my thought is that girl is ready to jumpContinue reading “RKS 2026 EURO Film: “Mirrors No. 3”: Healing Effect of the Intersection of Miseries”
RKS Literature: Timid Warrior Whalemen at Breakfast (Herman Melville)
“These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstances that after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every man maintained a profound silence. And not only that, but they looked embarrassed. Yes, here were a set ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: Timid Warrior Whalemen at Breakfast (Herman Melville)”
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