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POEMAS EN ESPAÑOL -- 2009: January 8, April 12, August 3 . . . . 2010: January 13 . . . . 2013: June 30, November 28, December 8 . . . . 2014: September 25, November 30 . . . . 2015: July 9, October 22 . . . . 2016: February 12, August 1, December 28 . . . . 2017: March 2, September 5 . . . . 2018: May 10, July 15, November 3 . . . . 2019: August 4, December 5 . . . . 2020: December 1 . . . . 2021: October 12, December 3 . . . . 2022: April 15, June 21 . . . . 2023: January 3, April 2, May 9, June 6.

Thursday, October 22, 2026

LINDSEY GRAHAM SEX WORKERS DOCUMENTARY

Senator Lindsey Graham is seen during a Senate vote in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, August, 4, 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dtnNq2lJkM

Lindsey Graham sex workers documentary

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/lindsey-graham-accused-of-paying-17-year-old-boy-and-men-for-sex/ar-AA2fQKZK

Could this hold a clue as to why Trump is so submissive to Putin?

Friday, August 28, 2026

DARK ANGEL

Free ai generated man angel illustration

Now I the anti-Jacob night-long lie

wrestling with my dark angel for my soul:

there is no hold he does not know—and I,

so subtly does he intertwine with mine

his limbs, so wreathe him close, I cannot breathe

but for his breathing.

Better like Isaac in the waste bound, blind,

waiting a rough knife’s thrust should God my life

thus claim, than strive and strive, only to taste

the old salt of defeat and loss and shame....

But now from bed to wall I turn my face

and take the fall.

Note: This is a revision of one of my earliest attempts at “significance,”

albeit autobiographical. It dates from the early 1960s. At that time I had not

overcome the influence of the archaic literary language of the 16^th through

the 19^th centuries in which I had immersed myself. In this case the syntactic

inversions, in conjunction with the sequences of stressed vowels, are meant

to parallel and thus to suggest the conceit. Some readers may discern the

influence of G. M. Hopkins as well as that of earlier writers.

Friday, June 12, 2026

WE ARE THE PULSE OF ORLANDO

Friday, June 5, 2026

IS THIS FOR GAY PRIDE MONTH?

Is that Pete “GI Jaw” Hegseth prancing in the background?

https://www.yahoo.com/fp/news/politics/articles/trump-oil-painting-football-image-093357680.html

Monday, April 13, 2026

https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/glorious-leader-posts-image-of-himself-as-jesus-christ/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-posts-himself-as-christ-after-bonkers-pope-attack/

It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

Macbeth, Act 5, scene 5, 26-28

Sunday, April 5, 2026

LO QUE SE VE EN EL ESPEJO

Lo que se ve en el espejo

nunca es el sujeto mismo

sino como un espejismo

sutilmente es disparejo.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ca/db/16/cadb16b36b7f2716fb025d11de9c3c89.jpg

Wednesday, November 26, 2025