“And still deeper the meaning of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the keyContinue reading “RKS Literature: Oceans are the Key to it All (Herman Melville)”
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RKS Literature: All the Difference Between Paying and Being Paid (Herman Melville)
“And I always go to the sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.Continue reading “RKS Literature: All the Difference Between Paying and Being Paid (Herman Melville)”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):”Personalized Rubrics only after”
Personalized Rubrics only after Initially a friendly glance But in the early morning you can never tell But there’s more As the steel rips through your soft belly Mocking Thanatos Has conquered Eros Who Weeps In the silence Of red flashes Robert K. Stephen
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “Misogynist Night at the Disco 1976”
Misogynist Night at the Disco 1976 So much Rod Stewart recovering from Jeff Beck shame You I see Mascaraed Glossy pink lipped Silver spooned Corvetted Deodorized Sanitized Mindless at least you’ve inspired a thought Based on your unattainability You piece of Robert K. Stephen
RKS Literature: The Temporary Joy of a Successful Operation (Yury Felsen)
“I was recuperating after a successful operation. The joy, such that convalescents experience was long gone and had given way to neurotic boredom of interminable waiting. Those who are often ill know this impatient reckoning of days and hours, the alarm if the time of discharge is again discharged, the irritability brought on by theContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Temporary Joy of a Successful Operation (Yury Felsen)”
RKS Literature: Post Morphine Blues (Yury Felsen)
“I would awake towards morning (already prepared for the requital) with the anguish of an unhabituated drunkard emerging from inebriation, but tenfold and irremediable. A fierce cold penetrated my body, no matter how warmly I enswathed myself. The pain would return, fortified by bitter comparison-just moments ago I had dropped off so serenely. The dayContinue reading “RKS Literature: Post Morphine Blues (Yury Felsen)”
RKS Literature: The Initial Bliss and Joy of Morphine (Yury Felsen)
“After my own operation I had experienced unremitting, unbearable pain, and over the course of ten days, every evening before sleep, that same Margarita would inject me with morphine. I cannot recall another so blissful and happy state that could compare with what you begin to feel several minutes after the injection. Somewhere inside thereContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Initial Bliss and Joy of Morphine (Yury Felsen)”
RKS 2026 BRITISH COLUMBIA WINES: Mission Hill 2022 Reserve Merlot
When Canadian provinces vint wine Ontario and British Columbia rule the roost. Aged 15 months in French oak. In this case from the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, we sample a Mission Hill 2022 Reserve Merlot. Aroma: A lush, plush and floozish wine. Lazy and sultry on the nose. Plummy. Creaminess strongly suggestive. Blackberry, cassisContinue reading “RKS 2026 BRITISH COLUMBIA WINES: Mission Hill 2022 Reserve Merlot”
RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 2 (John Steinbeck)
“He walked around the side of his house and went in the back door. His thin petulant wife was sitting by the open gas oven warming herself. She turned complaining eyes on Mike where he stood in the doorway. Then her eyes widened and hung on his face. ‘You been with a woman,’ she saidContinue reading “RKS Literature: After a Southern Lynching How Does Mike the Mob Participant Feel? Part 2 (John Steinbeck)”
RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “The Empty Ballad”
The Empty Ballad Basking in the spotlight An angel Feeling so proud and omnipotent Throngs surround Shout for more Critics rave Only Time knows realistic nothingness Words of a passing era Face on an album cover Actually, they hate as nothing like they ever will be A star reality crushes their dreams The lyrics theirContinue reading “RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): “The Empty Ballad””
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