Loose Leaf Notes

1. Poetry is a condensed form of expression that doesn’t follow the rules of prose like a dream isn’t limited by reality.

2. While watching Yellow Submarine with 5-year-old grandson Liam, he says, “Paul looks like a girl.”

3. Liam to Hopa Joe: When you’re 100 you’ll probably be dead.  Hopa: Can I still love you when I’m dead?  Bryce (7): Yes, because when you’re dead, you’re still alive.

4. Hopa: What part of me will still be alive and what part will be dead?  Liam: Your skin is dead.  Bryce: Your heart and your soul are alive. That’s where the love comes from.

5. I just chocked up because I saw my brother Jimmy’s eyes while watching a PBS special and staring into Paul Simon’s eyes when he was singing in Central Park.

6. Yesterday I read a poem called The Cosmic Joke with a line on the world’s “topsy-turvy absurdity,” to which I responded, yes, the world is topsy-turvy so we need more levity and gravity!

7. Recently seen all over Facebook: This One’s for Sherry and Nelson (who like to post pictures of them drinking beer in bars) – This is what happens when I go out for a beer. The venue is Dogtown Roadhouse. The beer is Green Flash. The band is Mad Iguanas, a mostly Dead cover band, and just when I thought I couldn’t dance another step, they played Ramble on Rose. (Joe’s drink is actually root beer and it’s not even his.  We used it as a prop.)

8. With all the yellow daffodils and forsythia in full bloom, all I can say it that spring is winning the golden globe.

9. I don’t understand why people say ‘bite me.”  It just seems counter-productive.

10. I just put going to the New York Easter Bonnet Parade on my bucket list. THIS is why.

11. And then there is the annual toilet paper wedding dress contest. The winning prize is $10,000.  See HERE.

12. I Do / Bride white moon / down an aisle of night / Through a reception line of stars / sweeps her train of sheer light.

13. Trump is “the presidential equivalent of Sanjaya on American Idol.  – Spoken by Trump’s Top Strategist in a brutal open letter she wrote to Trump supporters when she quit.

_______Thirteen Thursday