Text to the Western World from Homer 

War over. Troy fell thx to Odysseus  now trying to make it back home.  Don’t wait up.  Just wait 2800 years. The story will repeat again in Leo Bloom, June 16, 1904, as he walked a day Dublin. ______________________________________________ I have been reading a book...

Odysseus and the Oar

After ten years at war, another ten at sea, Odysseus, now with another king’s sailors on another king’s swift slender ship, wind taut sails, salt slick gleaming oars, the great trickster of horse-building fame, deceiver of armies, monsters, and men, was on his way...

Poor Ghost

Poor ghost, dead as trousers hung to dry, filled not with flesh but breezes, wearing a see-through body made of disappointed breath, naked to your rattling bones, sillier than sad. All you can do is annoy us in the night and amuse us some by day. You were murdered...

Denying the Holocaust

International Holocaust Remembrance Day 1/27/2019 I would like to believe the Holocaust never happened and except for the overwhelming weight of evidence, I could. I would like to believe the Holocaust never happened, that Stille Nacht was not sung beneath the...

Nearby Foreign Places

There are several places on this earth I’ve never been. Several? Hell! Let me be honest. Thousands. Thousands. Many thousands of places on the earth I’ve never been. Most. And where I am right now is one of them. Obviously, I am where I am, but barely. Not much to...