Author Archives: Ken Greenman

So, of what am I most afraid? Well, of not being anything, any more. That belief, at last, in an existence after a death, is the Great Lie…. of no commas, rather, only a period at the end of my … Continue reading →

Let us not be too hard on the Great Apes. Maybe Jane Goodall had the right idea. And Diane Fosse paid a high price for the realization that snoozing in the high grass, munching free fruit while playing with the … Continue reading →

Beaches and pools have been my second home since birth. My parents used to say, “Peel the skin off his neck! There be gills there!” Pretty good times in college competitions in the 50 and 100 yard sprints. Once I … Continue reading →

Sometimes, I wish I was that deer in the head-lights, two seconds before that speeding pick-up-truck crushes my ribs and splinters my spine… or that hare, grazing the clover in the growing twilight, five seconds before that owl’s talons sink … Continue reading →

of a scary face, an echoing place, a lost trace, a cold case, a barren oasis, an exhausting pace, a shattered vase, a pretty girl named Anastasia, of loosing a bet for the ace of spades when you’re holding a … Continue reading →

That today is “Tax-Day” has nothing to do with this poem except that Dad paid his taxes, while feeling trapped by and hating the IRS for every penny he could not get back from them but still wanting to be … Continue reading →

A straight jet-stream streaks the sky, white on blue, born in the combustion of mist, power and ice. Hangs there, a thin-cotton-seam, waiting to be gently opened. Alluring, like the zipper on Zendaya’s dress. All, for the eye to see … Continue reading →

Oh! I dream to go a-sailin’ across the 7 seas! But it seems that I get sea-sick just sittin’ on the beach! Oh! I want to fly on a Moon-Shot to see the earth from there! But I know that … Continue reading →

His ever helpful wife will, willingly, with her loving fingers and kiss mix the off-label bi-product effect of sildenafil with her love for her elderly-ing husband of 77, with her hints of heaven now and then and….again… enhancing that one, … Continue reading →

Beware the ubiquity of inequity and incivility and the iniquitous nature of those iniquitous ones who enhance the laxities of Democracy…. 2. The best of the Theists are the Deists…. 3. It’s always worse when we nurse a curse from … Continue reading →