Jimmy … and M.L. King. Jr.’s “Urgency of Now”*. (Jimmy Was a President Who Worked at Not “Being Too Late”*)

(“[Jimmy Carter] was one of the few Presidents who really was an advocate for the Black community out of a pureness of heart,” said the Rev. Bernice King.) I voted for Republican President Gerald Ford because Jack Anderson a protégé of Drew Pearson said Ford was the more experienced of two good men. Democrat Jimmy […]

a little sticky tricky tritina (that is, in texas!) for a wonderful friend (sylvia)

“Do NOT say gay!!!” certainly!?! all of you hunters can shoot all of the birds! isto e, as long as i have control and draw the line ………………………….. i am in line!!! i am perfectly normal and very overtly gay and i am certain there is nothing better that those exotically erotically dancing, prancing birds […]

1. Lovely Lady Beetle Larvae & 2. Changing Eaarth … to a Neo-Earth of Quality Life for More

Two “poems” for Poetry Night at the Seguin Public Library, Thursday, 6:00 pm, April 18th, 2024 Lovely Lady Beetle Larvae by Owen Schaefer & grandpa paul bain martin ……………. lady beetle larvae are falling freely from the old oak tree (down on smiling grandson owen and a very happy me) what fantastic lady beetles they […]

Profoundly Loving & Caring Through Doing Less. … And Associated Persistent Aggravations (2024)

mea culpa i do do what i can do which isn’t much in the whole scheme of things given … o thirteen point seven billion years of quadrillions and quadrillions rollings of dice which roll on, and on, and on … o three hundred thousand years of human existence … and the eight billion of […]

Poems Written in Collaboration with Some Amazing Grandsons … Owen and Lane

BASEBALL Lane Schaefer and grandpa paul bain martin the breeze is so soothingly cool and i really don’t want to go to the pool and especially not to school why don’t we play “baseball-on-a-stool” because i believe that kind of baseball is cool and heck, please do not think grandpa is a fool! he went […]

A Selfishly Happy North American … But Contrarian

It is so wonderfully beautiful outside this lovely spring day in south central Texas Green grass, beautiful wildflowers, pecans a-leafing; birds a-singing; biota crawling, digging, jumping, hopping, springing, running, floating, flying, gliding, soaring … interacting … LIVING!!! The temperature generally close to a comfortable 70s The air seems clean, streams are flowing, crops are growing […]