RKS Poetry Anthology: “Junkie of sorts”

Junkie of sorts

Up the highway flows the citrus juice

From Florida

Anita Bryant

The pusher

Scores a hit

And all are satisfied

Except the Orange Bird

Who weeps in lament

For she can’t talk

And

Is forced to sing at gunpoint

Robert K. Stephen

RKS Poetry Anthology: “Surfing the COVID Waves”

Surfing the COVID Waves

The more the COVID waves surf the beach of life

The more power and constraints placed on individual liberty

In the name of public good!

Elected representatives and top echelon medical bureaucrats now turned into sharks

Dismembering and attacking those who fail to tow the party line

Vilified like the sharks that attack the surfers like the sharks they are?

Robert K. Stephen

RKS Poetry Anthology: “Rin Tin Tin’s Revenge”

Rin Tin Tin’s Revenge

Salivated madness

Molar maliciousness

Lunges at your neck

Hungry claws tear your veins

hot satanic fumes

Muffle your screams

The blood pumps steadily onto the pavement

Licked up enthusiastically by man’s best friend

At the moment rabid

Robert K. Stephen

RKS Literature: Letter from Mozart to Father 9July1778, Paris: Dissolute Court Musicians and a Shamefully Intoxicated Haydn

“I couldn’t help laughing at your account of Haydn’s drunkenness, -if I’d been there, I’d certainly have whispered in his ear: ADLGASSER. But it’s a disgrace that such an able man should be rendered incapable of performing his duties and only have himself to blame for it-in a post that’s in God’s honour-when the archbishop and the whole court are there-and the whole church is full of people-it’s appalling-this is also one of the main reasons I detest Salzburg-the coarse ill-mannered and dissolute court musicians-no honest man of good breeding could live with them:-instead of taking interest in them he should be ashamed of them.”

RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 4December1777, Salzburg: A True Friend is One of the World’s Greatest Wonders

“My son to find one man in a 1,000 who is your true friend for reasons other than self-interest is one of the greatest wonders of the world. Examine all who call themselves your friends or who make a show of friendship and you’ll find the reason why this is so. If they’re not motivated by self-interest on their own account, then they’ll be acting in the interests of some other friend whom they need; or they are your friends so that by singling you out they can annoy some third party.”

RKS 2026 British Columbia Wine: 2021 Volcanic Hills Magma Red from British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley

Volcanic Hills Winery is located on the Southeast slope of Boucherie Mountain a 60-million-year-old dormant volcano.

It is a blend of Pinot Noir (51.4%). Marechal Foch (14.3%), Gamay Noir ( 7.4%),  Merlot (21.4%) and Cabernet Franc (5.5%). Each varietal was fermented and barrel aged in French and American oak for 14 months then blended.

Aroma: Black cherry, raspberry, red plum, chocolate covered cherry bon bons. Definite oak influence; perhaps too much

Palate: Firm. Lean.Tannic with controlled acidity. Very little fruit: perhaps faint raspberry therefore lacking much of any telltale Okanagan Valley character. Tannic finish.

Personality: Bland, unimpressive especially when expecting excellence one might expect from Okanagan Valley red wines.

Cellarbility: Drink now.

Food Match: A “Friday night wine”.

Price: $30 CDN.

RKS 2026 British Columbia Wine Rating: 79/100.

(Volcanic Hills 2021 Magma Red, Okanagan Valley, BC VQA, Volcanic Hills Winery, West Kelowna, British Columbia, 750 mL, 14%).

RKS Literature: Letter from Leopold Mozart to His Son 24November1777, Salzburg: No Money Then No Friends and No Credit

“A journey like this is no joke, you’ve no experience of this sort of thing, you need to have more important things on your mind than foolish games. You have to try and anticipate a hundred different things, otherwise you’ll suddenly find yourself in the shit without any money-and where you have no money you’ll have no friends either, even if you give a hundred lessons for nothing, and even if you write sonatas and spend every night fooling around from 10 till 12 instead of devoting your self to more important matters .”

“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: WHAT’S IN A NAME!

WHAT’S IN A NAME!

My name is Rory Dylan Stephen.

On my Canadian Kennel Club Certificate of Registration my name is Rory of Arendale 2ND.

My father is Kozo’s Gunther.

My mother’s name is Ardendale’s Scottish Lass.

When I am serious trouble my name is RORY.

When I am in very serious trouble my name is RORY DYLAN STEPHEN!!!

Yet I have many other names some being;

Sweetie

Pumpkin

Poopy

Dylan (by mistake)

Snookums

The White Rocket

The White Terror

Naughty Puppy!

Ror

Big guy

I know these names are intended for me by the tone they are delivered. They are terms of endearment (even Rory Dylan Stephen) and that is good with me.

RKS Poetry Anthology: “Beat up a poet today”

Beat up a poet today

Butterflies embrace the sky

A God given sunny day and the soul flies high

If this grade 5 rhyme is poetry then certainly something has gone awry

Liquidate this trivial optimism

Viewed through a socially irrelevant mindless prism

Quash this verse

Place it in the next outgoing hearse

Revel in the grandmothers who sigh at the mention of shit and sewer

No reason to put the poet on a skewer

Instead, bombast the demeaning jingoism of the brewer

You complain that poetry is over the head of the masses

You are wrong it is meaningless and beneath them when always enveloped in a rosy hue

Why is there no discussion of sniffing glue or the paying of class dues

Beat up

And thrash the poets of the ivory tower

It’s time they awoke with a cold shower

With the millions that suffer waiting to see the way

While poets ignore the every day

Then let us level them to the floors

These vocabularian whores

Robert K. Stephen