
DAILY PHOTO: Hungarian Parliament w/ Blue Sky
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once stately mansion,
weedy & paint peeling:
entropy incarnate.

a shaft of sunlight
sneaks past a blocking cloud:
summer sunset.






bounded by city:
look up to boundless sky,
& the mind soars.

Create an emergency preparedness plan.
For Zombies: walk briskly.
For Global Thermonuclear War: Find a nice place near a likely ground zero for instantaneous demolecularization — so as to avoid slow death by radiation sickness & nuclear winter starvation.
For Climate Change: carry a Nomex suit, a rubber raft, and an umbrella.
For aliens: assume Roddenberry was right until proven otherwise. (If Hawking was right, we’re screwed anyway.)
For all else: maintain a peppy, can-do attitude.

flowers dip
under a bee’s weight,
but spring back.

frogs plop in water
faster than my eye can see:
a blur — kerplunk!