It's March madness in the Ukraine!

 

Everyone's bracket is broken 

Here comes an underdog , 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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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

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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

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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, 

 

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 not the last supper

Bob Jenkens

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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.

I put him down.... Murdered my dog ..... What gives me the right?

I'm so sorry Sparky wags. I can't believe I murdered you bud. I'm so sorry Sparky. maybe it's the way I did it that's eating at me. I got Gavin on the school bus Monday and went to taking care of Sparky and his little puppy army he so strategically Maneuvered into my life.  Mr. Sparky wags and I understood each other anyone who's seen us together would tell you our relationship was extraordinary.  He went to work with me religiously  for 18 years before I stopped taking him.  Instead I leave him home in the air conditioning . Sparky never did anything at work just watch mostly. He knew when it was lunch and when he started hearing the nail gun air chucks release from the hose he knew it was time to go home. We use to go to restaurants for lunch. I wouldn't make Sparky sit in the truck. I would put a bowl of water under a bush or some other shady spot and tell Sparky to stay there. I had to sit so i could either see him or check on him because people would see him with no chain or collar on and they would try to rescue him. I would tell the people "he's with me". He just waits for you? they would ask. I'm getting him lunch too. I might order the pot roast on pot roast Wednesday at Stakes eatery and I would eat the vegetables and take the pot roast to Sparky who was patiently waiting for me. Sparky moved in a little pit bull girlfriend and even at his age seemed interested in making puppies. You know that's about the same time he stopped going to work maybe i didn't stop taking him but rather he chose to stay home. Either way i would scurry home to see my Sparky wags. "what did you do all day bud"? i would ask  Sparky  What you didn't do anything all day Sparky? Good boy. Weve been through so much together He was here for Gavin being born in 2011 but my daughter Zoe was born in2001 and when I got sparky he was a year old Zoe must have been around 18 months as she was in a diaper and not real steady on her feet she stood scratching Sparky telling him he was gonna wag himself right in two until he wagged them both right to the floor. his relationship with Zoe was special although Zoe at one point said Sparky only knows 3 things 1)outside 2)hot dog 3) I love you I told her he knows way more than that those are his 3 favorite things to hear. Sparky had his own girl is the way I seen it. We were uncertain of his exact birthdate so we celebrated his birthday June 16 same as Zoe's per Zoe Bliss I know what a miracle looks like. 

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 He's been my good best friend for twenty years,  this morning after I got my son Gavin  onto the  school bus a.k.a "the big yellow monster". Sparky and I ate a box of coconut donut holes. As you can imagine his twenty year old teeth are in rough shape, He only slightly opens his old mouth so I bite the donut holes in two eating half and popping the other half into Spark's mouth as he lay with his head propped up on a pillow watching Andy Griffith. After a few donuts I slide a bowl of milk under his chin to wash it down. He drinks from the bowl as his head still rest on the pillow and he falls  asleep he's sleeping hard, twitching like he's chasing a rabbit. He's been to weak to lift his head up for days. Even as I stand in a mirror and shave I catch him watching me in the mirror with his head still propped up on his pillow.

I've been giving him milk to keep his stool loose, it's when he has to go potty  that he begins to hurt. It kills me because there's absolutely nothing I can do. I can give him a hot dog and he'll stop crying and eat it but with that tumor on his butt hole and the inability to walk going potty hurts. Eight years ago the vet said removing it would likely make him loose bowel control not inoperable the vet said it was not likely to kill him if I left it alone. We've been active Spark's been still trying to jump off the top step when last winters snow melted off. I still have three of his puppies they are two years old and he would still get after them six months ago. He was slow which makes the boys running from their dad in fear was funny to see.  I've been carrying him in and out of the house for four months now. He still don't want to go to the bathroom in the house so he looks at me barely raises his head off the pillow to bark and I open the door tell the puppies to stay then carry sparky outside to pee. I know I have to put him to sleep but how can I when he still looks at me. watches me just as if we were at work. He has bed sores these puppies his boys they fight over whos going to clean his eyeball boogers and lick his teeth they all take care of their dad. what are they going to think of me when I load him up in the car and don't bring him back? My mind was made up on Friday when I came home from work and found him face down in his water bowl. As I scooped his face from the dish I felt a stiffness I thought was rigamortus He's dead. Then I realized the water was warm and he took a deep breath. Where the hell have you been? I see it in his eyes. I called the vet early this morning and set it up for him to be euthanized. We shared these donut holes look at him sleep. What do I do ruin his nap to be euthanized? It's only 10 a.m. I went to the kitchen and started cooking some stakes. I just seared them on both sides just the way Sparky likes them and was cutting them into small bites and maybe he smelled it  but he's looking at me again. After the stakes cooled I sat on the floor next to Sparky I talked with him and fed him an entire ribeye. I went and got another one and I knelt next to him on the floor. I don't know what kneeling means to the puppies but when I take a knee without even saying anything they will come to me. As I knelt over Sparky with a plate of ribeye the puppies gathered in a circle and one by one I gave everyone including Sparky a piece of meat. I took a couple bites myself as I was broken up in tears sharing Spark's last meal . He loves to eat and he's still eating well and he's well loved in this circle but  I can't let him die in a bowl of water or without me being there with him. I tried to put the puppies in the back rooms in the house so they wouldn't see me load Sparky into the car. My house doesn't have enough back rooms and as I backed out the driveway Tank was in the window watching me like Sparky. He was quiet on the ride over to the vets almost like he was enjoying the ride... I feel awful I murdered my good best friend euthanized I held his paw telling him I love him and I was sorry for doing this to him. We're staring in each others eyes as Sparky wags took his last breath. Sparky wags I'm going to miss you for the rest of my life! I Love You Man.

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