Author Archives: rdavies

Hypocritical Canadian Voters

Most of the country dislikes or hates Trudeau and yet they gladly take his various handout-cheques for the past four years. Nobody sends them back and tells him to stuff it.

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Life and Death: Simply Put–Here or Not Here

Everybody, everything has its process, presence and absence.

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15 times in the past 25 years

The number of times Trump has changed his position on abortion. So why should anyone believe him now? Isn’t the Devil a proficient liar?

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Former Sports and Entertainment Star

finally has his peace long after the infamous, media-frenzied Bronco chase on an L.A. highway back in 1994. (“Where were you when….?”) O.J. Simpson, aka O.J., social pariah and convicted felon, dead at 76, who, ironically, requested a drink of … Continue reading

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A Caution to Everybody

Dazzling & bright eye m just visiting yr loco galaxy a whimsical bit of cosmic mass from `somewhere else.` Entering yr atmosphere eye plunge comet-like thru clouds of destiny sidereal satellite of the last 1/4 my magnitude unlimited. Don`t look … Continue reading

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Eclipse (poem version)

The last thing I expected with the last major daytime eclipse was to write a poem, or rather have a love poem write itself in metaphors of the eclipse. The Oregon allusion was to my daughter’s trip of a lifetime … Continue reading

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Eclipse prose poem (from last total eclipse)

You were such a long time coming, but better late than never. A moonshadow that quieted birds and chilled the air. Startled I was at the hole above that opened in the clouds. Your dark magic enveloped me and released … Continue reading

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Remembering “Bud”:

what Marlon Brando’s closest friends called him.

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Ingmar Bergman: The Last Great 20th Century Artist?

It is in the film genre that you will find the last best of pre-Covid Art; Swedish filmmaker Bergman (1918-2007), for me, epitomizes what a great artist used to be/mean. He made over 60 important films and directed 170 plays … Continue reading

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from Carson McCullers’ “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”

“First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and … Continue reading

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