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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!

949 CHRISTMAS WEEK 12-20-2020

Christmas week begins with todays Sabbath shower of Holiness. (Thank you Abraham Joshua) A week of memorial reparticipation in the arrival of the Re-creator, the birth of Redemption, a world illuminated by the extraordinary light of the Redeemers appearance, this … Continue reading →

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948 Wiped Clean 12-13-2020

When I can no longer bend my body far enough to wipe the residual shit away and have no hose-hooked-shower-head to bidet off the little dangling dingleberries stuck to my anus hairs, comes the memory of Willie A, my college-dorm … Continue reading →

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947 Making The Bed 12-10-2020

My wife and I make our bed every morning, our liturgy in a ritualized worship of order. I know! It’s not like there’s gonna be a stream of visitors to our rumpus room. The bed police are not setting up … Continue reading →

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946 For My Health! 12-09-2020

In a plastic, weekly, pill holder, (compartments labeled M…T…W… and so forth), are all the vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements I take from day to day. For convenience sake, I swallow Fish-Oil, Saw Palmetto, and Vitamin E in gel form … Continue reading →

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945 After the Strike 12-02-2020

At last we’ve won the sought-for-joys that any man would crave. And we were right when we fought the fight till the bloody owners caved. Now we have a fiddler and a caller our songs to call so with-your-arms held … Continue reading →

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944 Takes On Three (maybe) Unrelated Things 11-24-2020

PROPHESY: The prophet must prophesy with the vaguest, most generalized applicability possible. Specificity, always the enemy of prophesy. Creating anticipation never actualized, this the prophets goal. Thus he is never wrong, and always employed. RAGE: must always be tactical, never … Continue reading →

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943 An Anthropomorphic Insult. 11-22-2020

If you’ve read my poems, you know I have the joy of feeding birds in a back-yard–fast-food-free-fly-zone of shepherds crooks, hung with suet holders, stuffed and Droll Yankee Spinners filled with black oil sun flower seeds. It’s a hobby. More, … Continue reading →

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942 Liebe und Arbeit 11-17-2020

Happy are they for whom vocation is avocation., who neither strain nor toil, rather who play in peace in the fields of the world, who take no vacation for they feel no fatigue, know no drudgery- only quest and the … Continue reading →

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941 A CHESS LIFE 11-15-2020

Russian Grand Master, Nicholas Russelimo, played 10 games at a time in Washington Square Park. If he lost, he’d give his opponent a buck. If he won, the guy gave him a buck. If they played to a draw, no … Continue reading →

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940 What’s A Words Worth? 11-12-2020

….or as Hamlet says, “Words, words, words.” There was a time, Shakespeare’s, actually, when The Virgin was called “silly”, when a man who desired men was called “faggot”. Then “silly” evolved to “special” and “faggot” became “gay” and if you … Continue reading →

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