Alphabet City

Prayers wailed near Wall
Golden grain under Blue sky
Looks like Mother Earth

Michael, 2022

How does one unsee
All children need life to play
Eyes peeled heavenward

Michael, 2022

Mother births daughter
on soft ground only hard rain
lost Melody sings

cc: Michael 2022

doctor prescribed neomycin polymyxin
b sulfates and dexamehtasone opthalmic
ointment, to be spread on the inside of
the lower lids of both eyes, to heal the red

I told her that a cessation of crying would also 
do the trick

cc: mc, cc
2022

Joe Biden
Kamala Harris
Nancy Pelosi
Patrick Leahy
Anthony Blinken

allow that to sink in,
that's your starting 5

imagine these 5 in a boardroom, with a large whiteboard
considering the options...

the 1969 NY Mets was a surer bet

cc: Michael

cc: Chagall 2022

The trident gold on azure shield, 
lowers to allow the red-crowned crane,
very rare, a moment to settle in,
respite from the field

I can help with the Bear, the crane calls out, 
''kar-r-r-o-o-o!''  

For who knows Manchuria better?

I will rest here a while, in Kyivan style,
and serve up Peking Duck, instead of
the traditional finger-chicken-licking
flames

We'll keep him out but he is
part of the in crowd, and we're in 
with the in crowd, I go where the in crowd goes,
I know what the in crowd knows

kar-r-r-o-o-o!

We, the crowing crowned, in a single clutch,
multiply by five our own very quickly, 
such is our way

In the north we nest
in the spring

We don't work cheap, certainly
we are not free: 

Three things to keep in mind:
a brilliancy;
reciprocal Zugzwang;
Zwischenzug

O' say, can you see,
checked by two different pieces
in a single move!

Threats from all
orthogonally-adjacent points

Et tu Xi?

cc: MCS, Chagall, Dobie Gray, Wilhelm Steinitz

Hey!  It just dawned on me - 
Maybe the 40 mile 
Russian convoy 
on the way to Kiev
is in sympathy with 
Ottawa truckers

Waddya think, eh?

cc: Chagall, Justin, Putin, Stalin, Lenin, Hotel-Motel-Holiday Inn
2022

If half of the government TRULY believes the other half is
under the influence of foreign powers, why the hell
would they agree to be in the same room at a time
when Russia is about to advance strongly on Ukraine?  
Shouldn't they be fearful for their very lives?  

Don't they know 
Reichstags catch fire?

cc: Carlos, Michael C.S.
2022

From a risk management point of view,
does it make sense for the entire U.S.
government to be in a single location
this evening?

I remember when CEOs and CFOs
couldn't ride the same elevator
or fly the same plane.

But what do I know!

cc: Michael, Carlos, Sebastien Greco, Bambino Cuadrado, Ramon Rivera
2022