When the Children Have No Time for You
Entertain yourself in old age.
It is your stage.
Be the actor,
the star factor.
Don't rely on your busy brood,
for your soul food.
Nurture the time,
create some rhyme.
So much depends on the attitude.
Show some gratitude
for your good health.
Living well is wealth.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
An Open Letter to Americans, the President, the Congress
Why should senior citizens have government-sponsored health care (Medicare) while the rest of the population has to get their health care from an employer-sponsored plan or in the case of the unemployed, buy it themselves or go without? It is evident to me that a Medicare for all citizens in a single payer system best serves the health needs of the country. It would cut out the middle man (Insurance companies) who have not served the health care needs of this nation for a very long time. They have reaped exorbitant profits, denied insurance and care to the needy, and made it virtually impossible for the average family to have health care.
The pending health care reform with its weakened public option is a joke. In fact, less than 10% of the population will benefit. It will be a huge windfall for insurance companies, and the politicians who are on the take (Most of them) will tout this as a huge success. It is nothing more than a ginormous government spending bill put forth by a gutless congress who is and has been out of touch with you and me and every other red-blooded working class American since World War One. This new health care reform should be abandoned. It will not do what it has been touted to do.It is a ghetto policy that throws a bone to a dying dog.
We need medical reform for all, not just the very poor or the very rich. We don't need triggers, delays, exchanges or any other nonsensical tactic to deny the care we deserve.
We have a Democrat president, a Democrat House, a Democrat Congress- a clear mandate from the voters to accomplish two things: Health care for all and end the war. It looks like when the cards are on the table, that neither will be accomplished because too many elected officials will capitulate to the special interest lobbies of the wealthy 1%.
It is criminal, the promises made by the President and the Congress. All the flowery speeches in the world will not deceive most Americans who are much smarter than most politicians and understand very well what is happening. Methinks, this sorry government has gone too far with obfuscation and the people will rise up in anger and take back what they've lost to the dishonesty of the financial and political system. Shame on you. You have sold out 300,000,000 people for your own minuscule slice of a very large pie. I, like Mrs. Obama don't have many reasons to be proud of my country right now. Perhaps Rev. Wright isn't as crazy as the naysayers made him out to be. Sometimes every American must feel like "God Damn America" is the correct feeling for the idiocy that streams across the nightly news.
I know as I write these words, that my children and grandchildren are facing a much bleaker future than I've had. The gap between the haves and have nots will widen, personal wealth will decrease, debt will increase, Afghanistan and Iraq will be an un-winnable quagmire and the nation's health, accept for the privileged will decline. It is my fervent prayer that I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. In closing, I implore Mr. Obama and the United States Congress to do an integrity check and do the right thing, before it is too late.
Keith B
October 28, 2009
The pending health care reform with its weakened public option is a joke. In fact, less than 10% of the population will benefit. It will be a huge windfall for insurance companies, and the politicians who are on the take (Most of them) will tout this as a huge success. It is nothing more than a ginormous government spending bill put forth by a gutless congress who is and has been out of touch with you and me and every other red-blooded working class American since World War One. This new health care reform should be abandoned. It will not do what it has been touted to do.It is a ghetto policy that throws a bone to a dying dog.
We need medical reform for all, not just the very poor or the very rich. We don't need triggers, delays, exchanges or any other nonsensical tactic to deny the care we deserve.
We have a Democrat president, a Democrat House, a Democrat Congress- a clear mandate from the voters to accomplish two things: Health care for all and end the war. It looks like when the cards are on the table, that neither will be accomplished because too many elected officials will capitulate to the special interest lobbies of the wealthy 1%.
It is criminal, the promises made by the President and the Congress. All the flowery speeches in the world will not deceive most Americans who are much smarter than most politicians and understand very well what is happening. Methinks, this sorry government has gone too far with obfuscation and the people will rise up in anger and take back what they've lost to the dishonesty of the financial and political system. Shame on you. You have sold out 300,000,000 people for your own minuscule slice of a very large pie. I, like Mrs. Obama don't have many reasons to be proud of my country right now. Perhaps Rev. Wright isn't as crazy as the naysayers made him out to be. Sometimes every American must feel like "God Damn America" is the correct feeling for the idiocy that streams across the nightly news.
I know as I write these words, that my children and grandchildren are facing a much bleaker future than I've had. The gap between the haves and have nots will widen, personal wealth will decrease, debt will increase, Afghanistan and Iraq will be an un-winnable quagmire and the nation's health, accept for the privileged will decline. It is my fervent prayer that I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. In closing, I implore Mr. Obama and the United States Congress to do an integrity check and do the right thing, before it is too late.
Keith B
October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
If Only You Understood
If Only You Understood
I have a trigger, like a loaded gun
Incites my anger, changes my mood
Makes me ugly, not much fun
I have a trigger, like a loaded gun
Bad humor as the setting sun
My intent is never rude
I have a trigger, like a loaded gun
Incites my anger, changes my mood
I have a trigger, like a loaded gun
Incites my anger, changes my mood
Makes me ugly, not much fun
I have a trigger, like a loaded gun
Bad humor as the setting sun
My intent is never rude
I have a trigger, like a loaded gun
Incites my anger, changes my mood
Friday, October 23, 2009
Homeowner's Association
Homeowner's Association
Take down that flag, we have our rules
No plastic pools
Pink flamingos
Foreign lingoes
Not allowed-cars in the driveway
Do it our way
Or we'll sue
Don't paint blue
You must use brown, like all the rest
We know what's best
We keep it neat
A perfect street
Take down that flag, we have our rules
No plastic pools
Pink flamingos
Foreign lingoes
Not allowed-cars in the driveway
Do it our way
Or we'll sue
Don't paint blue
You must use brown, like all the rest
We know what's best
We keep it neat
A perfect street
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Choice
Choice
He chose her
He said he loved her
of course, but choice
the thing, choosing
the chosen, the will
at work, free cruising
down independence highway
for better or for worse
he did it my way
like Frank Sinatra
crooning under the moon
singing his mantra
proud and able,
a spirit free
a genuine American Fable
He chose her
He said he loved her
of course, but choice
the thing, choosing
the chosen, the will
at work, free cruising
down independence highway
for better or for worse
he did it my way
like Frank Sinatra
crooning under the moon
singing his mantra
proud and able,
a spirit free
a genuine American Fable
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