happy new year!

here's to another trip around the sun!  sure 2025 doesn't sound or look much different than 2024.  but we are thick in la comedie humaine.  e.g. just a couple of months ago our incoming president mimed fellating a microphone onstage!  oh my!  as the great bugs bunny would say, 'it is to laugh!'  i might even break a rib or have a heart attack from all the hilarity.  at any rate, we are now a quarter way into the new century.  our world has shifted into a new register.  even if i can't define it very well, i get the sense, like i did at the end of the Cold War, that we are living in a new era.  we are living in the FUTURE, no?  if so, where are the flying cars?!  where is my jetpack i was promised that would be waiting for me in the FUTURE!  wherever this Weird Road that all of us are travelling on takes us at least we are on the journey together.  

i don't do new year's resolutions but i might take up the briar.  smoking pipes is cool, right?  i will do what i do.  read/write poems.  listen to music.  watch really bad movies.  observe the world as it is & do what the cuban poet omar perez suggested all poets do, observe & have fun, & have fun with what you are observing.  cherish my family & friends.  & know that the world, & everything in it, in all its terror & beauty, is a magical place.   my life is made of the world; i will do what i can, a la james dickey. & try not be afraid of the blank page.  making mistakes can be a beautiful art too.  

below is my new t-shirt given to me as a christmas present by my sister in law.  she always picks the perfect gifts!  so beware the dangers of CATNIP MADNESS to your felines!  it started with one sniff!

happy new year 2025!  

as always MAKE IT COUNT!