#TBT

 

Long ago

And

Far away 

Anchors Away…

 

Me and George Washington

 

A New World

 

The New News

 

#Caturday

 

Friday Night Musik

 This week a Perfect cover of Helpless, written by Neil Young.

Link to YouTube Video by Molly Tuttle et al.

Beautiful.

Next: My poem about being Helpless 

Mary E. Gerdt

Helpless

played on the radio.

yes I hear you Neil,

you were there with

Katie & I 

in a red car

on the back roads 

of 

corn country

on the 90th meridian

of 

Southern Illinois.

Scarred back then 

by grief,

losing friends too young,

rendering us 

helpless.

does grief

&

does being helpless

 make scars too

in our fabric net

of

neurons?

Now

We fight

an invisible MonSter,

others know so well,

how do we explain,

how it hurts?

i am helpless

So if you see

a MonSter,

better run girl,

it is no good.

(Is it something you can run from?)

Now

 I see the universe before me,

images too large,

impossible to 

comprehend.

I never could run before

the scars

that warped my

senses,

slowing ever so slighly,

still always flatfooted,

yet

filled with

hope each day

the MonSter

can be rendered

utterly, completely, obliteratively

helpless.

Faith #TBT

 

The Trumps

 

@DailyMail @DailyMailUK @MELANIATRUMP @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse
I had so little understanding of First Lady Melania Trump
Then I read Melania’s Memoirs.
Her Full Life, Her Love of Life, Challenges, Successes.
I wanted to understand how She felt after Her Family’s Private Home… pic.twitter.com/g7RsRHxWWC

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) November 11, 2024

We Love President Elect Trump & First Lady Melania Trump

 

@DailyMail @DailyMailUK @MELANIATRUMP @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse
I had so little understanding of First Lady Melania Trump
Then I read Melania’s Memoirs.
Her Full Life, Her Love of Life, Challenges, Successes.
I wanted to understand how She felt after Her Family’s Private Home… pic.twitter.com/g7RsRHxWWC

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) November 11, 2024

When?

 Will the final Election Results be known?

Even since I wrote these words on Saturday 11/09/2024 🤦‍♀️🎸🚀🐅🦅

If the votes are dribbling in, when will We know it’s done?

Every Day it takes,

I have more questions.

Can I do that?

Sun Day

 

#Caturday

 Napoleon 

and

The Hag

Friday Night Musik

 Another Richard Barone 🎸 Favorite 😻

Our Next President

 

😻🦅🇺🇸 https://t.co/jEgamz8DAU pic.twitter.com/K6Tl9Eo9Ye

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) November 6, 2024

Waiting

 Why don’t We have Paper Ballots?

Waiting 

Who?

 Who will Win the 2024 USA 🇺🇸 Presidential Election?

Who?

Tomorrow the work Begins Again

 

Tomorrow the work begins Again

The Politicians have offered their pitches and promises,
Tomorrow the work begins.

But, instead there will be a party, 
a celebration or consolation.

At the end, pumped up supporters will fall exhausted, 
down to the ground.


Win or lose, 
The Politicians, sleepless euphorics, still buzz with the vibration
of all their monetary adoration,
a compensation, a self affirming confirmation.

They kissed the babies and bad breathed housewives,
They courted supporters, promised away their lives,
Cut the tax, Raised awareness,
Fights for apple pie, Mom and fairness.

At the end of that long election day,
The politician breaks down, on his knees to pray,
Prays his promises will not be broken,
That his constituents mind be aptly spoken.

So do not forget your promise, politician though you are,
Tomorrow begins the work,
Again,
the end
so far,
so far.

Caturday