“Moritūrī tē salūtāmus”

“Moritūrī tē salūtāmus”

Out tonight before the freeze,

To fetch the last tomatoes

And gratefully accept from these,

Their “Moritūrī tē salūtāmus!”

Today, We Vote!

Today we hold the middle ground

Lest we make a prophesy

Of Yeats’ “Second Coming”-

“The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.”

One of Those Mournings

Do you ever wake up with a song in your head and it just keeps playing on repeat until you do something with it? That was today! So, with all due respect to Dave Mason and his 1977 soft rock ballad…

Let’s Just Leave It Alone

We’ve moved apart.
I haven’t seen you in a while.
How’ve you been?
I see you’ve changed your style.
Do you think that we’ve grown old differently?
It just don’t seem the same;
seems you’ve lost your sense to me.
Do you feel it too?
So let’s just leave it alone
’cause we don’t see eye to eye.
There ain’t no good guy,
there ain’t no bad guy.
There’s only you and me
and we disagree politically

I’m goin’ back to a place that’s far away.
How ’bout you?
Have you got a place to stay?
Why should I care?
I’m just trying to get along.
We were friends;
now is this the end of that old song?
So let’s just leave it alone
’cause we won’t see eye to eye.
There ain’t no good guy,
there ain’t no bad guy.
There’s only you and me
and we disagree politically.