Sweet and low

 I decided I should hate you

since I no longer get to hold and taste

you said you knew

I'd chew our love apart

I knew

you were never who

seemed so beautiful 

when you slept

who knew you dreamt

of some other day

when you knew

I'd hate you

for pretending to taste so good.

Bob Jenkens

"Sorry I'm Late"

 In the beginning of the covid Epidemic I joined an online writing group to help pass the time. The site administrator would release a title in the morning and participants had until 5 p.m. to write a short story, Paragraph or poem using said title.  Thus, my inspiration for "sorry I'm late". 

Sorry I'm late

It wasn't that long ago
I don't know why
I didn't start it right away
Are homes were lit by
Oil lamps
I've been working on it
In my head for years
But on paper
It just doesn't look the same
 I go to the ice box
To get something to eat
Why's it up to me?
To fix everything
The world's it's own place
Not so discrete
But people continue
To look the other way
Including myself
Let someone else
Be on the front page
The Lord works
In mysterious ways
I'm here
"Sorry I'm late"

Bob Jenkens

  My dad didn't go to culinary school. He used to make a mean hot dog omelet which I also felt compelled to write about. I submitted it to the 2020 pandemic lock down cookbook. I'm grateful my submission was accepted. They even gave me two pages for the recipe, a picture and the poem I wrote.   larry-clarks-famous-hot-dog-omelet.html   

https://www.amazon.com/author/bobjenkens 

Jesus would be rolling in his grave

 

Jesus would be rolling in his grave.

 I wish I would have been there when Jesus was betrayed (by Judas)

Simon Peter's stroke would have meant "go" and the story would have changed.

The Holy Bible written a different way.

I know he ascended into Heaven and arose on the third day.

for if he didn't, Jesus would be rolling in his grave.

Why couldn't the disciples fight? 

It's what they've taken from us today.

In his name "in God we trust"

Justice or just us?

When Simon Peter dropped his sword

I would have gone to war for Jesus.

And we would have been eating kosher chicken.

for Not the last supper

Bob Jenkens

If it bleeds it leads

/Debriefed-at-pearly-gates  

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It's March madness in the Ukraine!

 Its March madness in the Ukraine 

Everyone's bracket is breaking

Here comes a seventh seed 

to live and die for Democracy

Here comes the Ukraine

Tomorrow the courts will host

Duke and Maryland

the Supreme court will repeal Roe vs Wade

While NATO denies a no-fly zone 

It only counts as two coming from three-point land

Everyone's bracket is broken

Bob Jenkens

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Sunday, March 6, 2022 Is Ukraine the new middle east? My insight on today during a walk in the woods.

 If a bear shits in the woods

And no one is around to hear

Does it make a sound? across-seas-infamous-sadness.html

What kind of question is that?

Is the Ukraine the new middle East? the-russians-are-coming-russians-are.html

What's the difference?

if there's nobody listening

help humanity

there's a crisis happening 

Innocent people are in the middle of it

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https://www.amazon.com/author/bobjenkens

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My grandpa Danny was a Polish immigrant. Learn you a trade he would say to me. I roofed all these houses by myself. here's the story

 Saturday, February 15, 2014

Learn you a Trade my polish grandpa would say

Grandpa Danny ordered whoopers at burger chef. I didn't give it much consideration. When he took me to restaurants, he didn't want a menu he just told the waitress what we wanted. That was impressive to me. It was always the same restaurant in napoleon just north of Brooklyn Michigan. He lived in Toledo and would stop at beautiful Clark Lake to pick me up when he went to his cottage at wolf lake. We would get bait and go to the deli and buy macaroni salad, RC and Dr Pepper. Also, boxes of little Debbie's cakes we called them little Dannie's. I don't know if he always drove so slowly or if he did it so he could try and talk to me. But I remember him talking to the back of my head as I gazed out the window pretending not to hear him.
He told me "I'm certain you're hearing me". He told me things weren't going to come natural to me. That I needed to learn a trade to help me in life. something I could always count on for money. He ran his own janitorial business cleaning offices in Toledo. And for a guy who couldn't read was pretty successful.
I didn't know yet that he couldn't read. Education he use to tell me. Experience, experience live and learn you'll see. He was a polish immigrant and spoke polish fluently and he used to say something in polish first and I wouldn't understand then he would say it in English " you made your bed now you have to lie in it". Does he have to drive so slowly? "You think I'm getting on you" he'd tell me. "I'm just saying" Learn you a trade. something to fall back on. When we'd get to the cottage, I would pick up the pieces of all the willow trees and we would mow the grass and we would fish. We cooked our suppers in a two-room cabin on a gas grill I still have. "Eat eat" he would say. Were poor people we have to enjoy simple things. Grandpa Loved to eat.

 Learn you a trade grandpa said, I end up using roofing for my fallback work. I can roof a house by myself in a week and love doing it.
I worked for builder Mark Edward who swore I had goat in my blood when he saw me move around on a roof. I make it look easy Just this last summer a man who had been watching me roof a neighbor's house came out to tell me I should have my name on a sign out front because he has never seen a roof look so good. I told him you're only saying that because you can appreciate that I did it by myself. He agreed and told me I looked like a little kid playing on a great big pile of sand up there. I Love being on a roof.
 I wish Grandpa would have been around when I got through school and got a radio job. He used to love Paul Harvey. "That guy knows how to tell a story "he'd say. I could of prank called him. got him to speak polish on the radio. I don't know what happened to dreams in radio. I wish we could of drove through Loch Erin real slow as I pointed out to him. I roofed that house and that house. My dog sparky wags have roofed over 100 roofs with me. he's the best!

sparky is laying
 just over my ear

The Write Way: Masquerade Party "If it bleeds it leads"

The Write Way: Masquerade Party "If it bleeds it leads":   

Masquerade Party "If it bleeds it leads"

Cut me up in pieces and
put me on the front page
Of the Washington Post
Edit me to Death
make me insubordinate

Spread me out
all over the pages
That's how they do things
in Saudi Arabia

Donald Trump's not shaking the prince's hand

The FBI, CIA, CNN or FOX news
can't speak of it
or they'll tell the truth
of what they did 911
what they do
their mercenaries
committing inhumane acts
in plain view.

Bob Jenkens

"If it bleeds it leads"

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Debriefed at the pearly gates

You've lived by the book anticipating Eternal life

Confessed your sins and accepted Jesus Christ

Walked a straight Path

But lied and cheated people

"It's My job" doesn't count

You're going straight to hell

do not pass go

do not collect two hundred dollars

you got paid by the hour

you sold your soul 

to the devil

Bob Jenkens

This is for our judges'' lawyers'' clerks and even court stenographer's.

our entire Judicial system is going to hell.

Jesus Christ was for the poor people 

I'll swear on a bible .

My Inspiration for this poem

 2016/12/debriefed-at-the pearly-gates you're-in-heaven.html

SHHHHHH!

 I'm always saying something

Is anyone listening?

I don't say it out loud

I say it in a poem

Isn't that stupid? 

Stupid of me

that I didn't start saying it sooner

this will be the beginning

Of the end of me.

Don't shut up and quit listening

someone needs to say something

boo are you scared yet?

"Funny" by my high school sweetheart Sue Ivey (Burton)

  "Funny"

 Funny how it seems

I'm left alone with all my dreams

and though my dreams are very few

             "Funny"

how their all of you!

Sue Ivey

It's a small world. I rode shotgun in a 1969 Pontiac Lemans with my uncle Norman who was only eleven months older than me. David Hargrove who I'd known since kindergarten sat in the back on our trip to the mall. The "Westwood mall".  as we walk about the mall, I notice a cute little blonde and nudge David "there's a cute girl". "That's my cousin" he says. really? it's a small world. As large as it may seem it was ironic, I met Sue Ivey almost by chance on a trip to the mall. I was only 15 and I couldn't imagine I'd know Sue for the rest of her life. Some 35 years. We were kids together and grew up together. I took her to my senior prom. Whenever I hear a def Leppard song, I immediately think of you Sue. They were the debut band the summer we met. God, I miss you. I remember when you wrote this poem for an assignment at school. You told me you wrote it for me. How stupid was I to think this is just some words? Now all grown up everything that happens to me is a poem. I'll always Love you Sue You're the only one who's ever written a poem for me, 

 

the Russians don't even want to see themselves

 throwing inhumanity 

at the holocaust

burying the truth

at any cost

live and die Putin

take on a Uber job you Russian slob

sinking in the black sea

the world can see this isn't 1946

I wish some aliens would show up

and sink their Russian ships

put a missile right in Putin's lips

sorry about your luck

Russian people

does this invasion look right from any angle?

Aliens would set you right

it's time for the world to know

it's not 1946 it's not d day

send Putin to his grave

Hidden from reality

Jesus would be rolling in his grave

 I wish I would have been there when Jesus was betrayed (by Judas)

Simon Peter's stroke would have meant "go" and the story would have changed

The Holy Bible written a different way

I know he ascended into Heaven and arose on the third day

for if he didn't, Jesus would be rolling in his grave

Why couldn't the disciples fight? 

It's what they've taken from us today

In his name "in God we trust"

Justice or just us?

When Simon Peter dropped his sword

I would have gone to war for Jesus

And we would have been eating kosher chicken

for the last supper

Bob Jenkens

https://www.amazon.com/author/bobjenkens

/Debriefed-at-pearly-gates  

as-we-prepare-to-celebrate-mystery-of Christ's Love.

Is Ukraine the new middle east? My insight on today

 If a bear shits in the woods

And no one is around to hear

Does it make a sound? across-seas-infamous-sadness.html

What kind of question is that?

Is the Ukraine the new middle East? the-russians-are-coming-russians-are.html

What's the difference?

if there's nobody listening

help humanity

there's a crisis happening 

Innocent people are in the middle of it

building tree forts with cardboard floors

 I woke up early and can't sleep

forced awake by crazy dreams

how can a dream be overcome by reality?

all this anxiety 

I dreamt of classmates, but we weren't kids anymore

we were at our little league baseball field 

building a tree fort with a cardboard floor

and tearing down Mark Fish's old house

so, they could build a new dollar general store

How did these trees get in our baseball field?

never mind first base where did home go

Sacred mysteries how did I get old?

this wasn't supposed to happen.