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TOURIST IN THE CITY
When you step off of the train in San Francisco, you are faced with daunting choices and decisions: do you rush to Russian Hills, go...
Charles Joseph Albert
Sep 2, 20171 min read
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THE MEANING OF LIFE
A guy named Dave didn’t have any friends. He was just too sluggish and slow. But he’s perky now, and demand never ends for the man who...
Charles Joseph Albert
Aug 14, 20171 min read
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AGING BADLY
I contemplate you, stranger, with a disapproving eye: your balding head is pony-tailed, I can’t imagine why. You must have thought those...
Charles Joseph Albert
Jul 29, 20171 min read
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Legend of the Surfer God
Below him lay the coral reef where breaks the surf at deep lagoon; above him blazed the tropic fief: the God of fiery afternoon. The...
Charles Joseph Albert
Jul 4, 20172 min read
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PLANET OF THE SPUN WORG
This morning my laptop received a strange note; a plea for relief from a far-distant world. What a sorrowful missive that poor creature...
Charles Joseph Albert
Jun 15, 20171 min read
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TRUMP AND OBAMA
(Apologies to Frost) Some say America ends with Trump— Some say Obama. Dad sneers "sociopathic chump," and holds with those who censure...
Charles Joseph Albert
May 24, 20171 min read
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Soror Ipsum Attilan
My older sister Madeleine Is a dame hardboiled as Ma Dillon With a horror of the maudlin, Who walks the walk of her dogma, telling...
Charles Joseph Albert
May 16, 20171 min read
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A Sure-Fire Investment
This was written six years ago, after I gave myself a particularly nasty case of poison oak from a visit tromping through Alum Rock Park...
Charles Joseph Albert
Apr 27, 20171 min read
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Why not write poetry while walking the dog?
As a dad and small business owner, I don't have a lot of free time. So I tried taking advantage of the quiet, meditative moments left to...
Charles Joseph Albert
Apr 2, 20171 min read
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Narcissistic Tweets of a Bloviating Sociopath
What can you say to those who still approve of the bloviating sociopath? It won't get through: they're protected from the fake news by a...
Charles Joseph Albert
Mar 12, 20171 min read
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The New Cabinet
Oh, there's birthers and Bengaziists and Twenty-One apologists. There's literally some loonies who call themselves "Blood-moonies,"...
Charles Joseph Albert
Feb 12, 20171 min read
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Beware of Dog
“Beware of Dog!” the back gate warns; a sporting chance is what it gives to burglars who choose to spurn it at their peril! For, who yet...
Charles Joseph Albert
Feb 4, 20171 min read
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Rodent Dangerfield
Rodent Dangerfield was The Smartest Squirrel In The World whose receding hareline gave him the appearance of a Rodent Duval, and his nut...
Charles Joseph Albert
Jan 26, 20171 min read
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I STAND, CORRECTED
As we walked in Manhattan past Fifth Avenue, I told my young boys the old chestnut that life is so much easier for rich men and pretty...
Charles Joseph Albert
Jan 24, 20171 min read
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INAUGURATION EVE: 01/19/2017
We once called Truth and Justice the American Way but now the truth just is they're IN the American way. The chicken house will be...
Charles Joseph Albert
Jan 20, 20171 min read
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In the Fairy-tale Land Deploraldo
In the fairy-tale land Deploraldo, those fertile fruit fields by the sea, the frolicking folk danced the Baldeaux, singing fatuous songs...
Charles Joseph Albert
Jan 18, 20173 min read
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Slouching Toward T-Day
The clock is ticking... the country braces itself... are we expecting a bang? Or a whimper? Meanwhile, here's another offering to those...
Charles Joseph Albert
Jan 6, 20171 min read
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FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMS
Yes, the Taliban try every year to kill lot of Jews and Boko Haram jihadists are said to be bad news, we know Bashar makes offers that...
Charles Joseph Albert
Dec 26, 20161 min read
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MY UNCLE HAS A LOONY BENT
Here's another poem from the innocent, Halcyon days before November 8. Remember the outrage over the bizarre conspiracies that Fox News...
Charles Joseph Albert
Dec 15, 20161 min read
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Highschooler Killing Time on The Internet
READERS' COMMENTS @ SNOWYEVENINGS.COM Whose words these are I think I know: he hates both the Obamas so. In articles where they appear...
Charles Joseph Albert
Dec 7, 20161 min read
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