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About Ken Greenman

Married and Happy. Retired and busy. Living in NC. 71 and counting. December 12, 2025 and it's 77! ... I would love some written comments, critiques, adulation or kind suggestions.... If you have the time and or inclination, please feel free! Not in fear but by faith. We will see. See you later! If you ever want to talk for real, email me and I will send you my cell number.... I am enjoying this!

1227 ON BAD HABITS 12-29-24

When I consider my senescence, and my built in obsolesce I find there are legions of evil habits I must eliminate from my existence. Like, when I squash my lust for a second or even fourth sweet dessert! My wife … Continue reading →

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1226 AS A REMEMBERENCE 12-28-24

Every sixth day, as the sun finishes its decent through the heavens from zenith to horizon, while the sky explodes into fiery red and orange flames, a seam opens, a hole between the realms. And through it flows a stream … Continue reading →

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1225 NO LIFE-GUARD ON DUTY – SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK 12-26-24

What does it take to drown a precocious, athletic, non-swimming- non-floater, 4 foot-5 inches tall, 4, maybe, 5 years old child in a pool, 6 feet deep? Well, not much: His teen age brother, delegated to watch him but who … Continue reading →

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1224 OH! WHAT JOY! 12-26-24

Oh! There are so many pictures of god. Just in the winds… In cool on-shore breezes. In roiling hurricanes wild enough to knock me off my feet, press me into the sand, pounding, beating me till I bleed and feel … Continue reading →

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1223 WHY DID HE STUMBLE ON… 12-23-24

…when he could have called upon the powers of 10,000 angels? His cross was heavy. The splinters, sharp and jagged. He was bleeding from a Roman scourging. He was exhausted from a night and a day of pain. The turn-coat-crowd … Continue reading →

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1222 IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A WATER BUFFALO 12-11-23

…or a chimp, our second cousin and therefore further up the choosing chain. Or a meerkat, that social scamperer of the African Plain, stretched out on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by an arrogant, bearded Meerkat artist capturing … Continue reading →

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1221 REALLY, NO PLACE TO HIDE 12-13-24

“By the sea! By the sea! By the beautiful sea! You and me! You and me! Oh! How happy we’ll be!” …goes a silly Broadway ditty sung on the beach of a beautiful ocean. But I have grown older, now. … Continue reading →

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1220 ON ARRIVING AT THE COMPLETION OF MY 76th YEAR 11-25-24

Naturally, since my escape from the womb, I have become older. I mature. I become wiser. Sometimes, stupid. Stronger. Learn to learn. Learn to love. Evolve from hunger for Mothers nipple too lustful for my loves breasts. To understand what … Continue reading →

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disclaimer 12-05-24

JUST A NOTE TO WHOEVER MIGHT WANDERING THROUGH MY POEM BLOG: p0ems 1215-1219 a not to be taken seriously…. I had to get them off my gut, but they are poorly writ political propaganda not to be counted, avoided if … Continue reading →

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1219 FADE TO WHITE 11-15-24

Where have all the John Wayne’s gone? How did he become that idiot Dad, that senile Grandpa on TV comedy and TV ad? The frustrated money man whose harshest curse is “Schwab!”. The sweating knuckle dragger in the weight room, … Continue reading →

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