Tag: #Literature
Insomnia
Insomnia
Night Comes
With Its Demons,
Stays Late Into My
Hapless Toss And Turn…
Brings Its Jabbing Thoughts
Of All My Yesterdays,
Leaves Me Tangled
In The Wet Sheets
Of Memories…
With Dawn,
The Weary Self Of
Bone And Flesh
Seeks Cessation
In the hopeful
Sunlight
Of Day.
©Billy Ray Chitwood – March 22, 2019
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BUY MY BOOKS
BUY MY BOOKS
Guess it could be considered foolhardy to look too far into the future when you’re old in age but young in heart. Whether it is or it isn’t, if you’re breathing and still have a working mind, use every millimeter of it. AND, go BIG in your thinking and planning. It’s just as easy to think BIG as it is to think small.
So, here’s what I’m thinking…
Get all your friends together, ALL of you, and insist, by cajoling, by insisting, by threatening loss of friendship, by any means available to you, except, of course, mind-altering drugs, weaponry of any kind, or, poisons of any kind.
Now that you’ve got all of your friends together, ALL of you, brain-whip them into buying BR Chitwood’s books, either paperback or e-book.
‘WHY’? You Ask!
Because it’s simply the right thing to do! They will see how a most worthy author writes excellent books, nay, quintessential books, literary quality (though lacking leather covers!), and for the price that one might pay for apple pie al a mode or a small pack of lung-oxidizing cigarettes…that is, if anyone smokes these days – it’s been thirty-five years since I gave them up. And, I had just bought a pack…crushed them with one hand. But, back to ‘breathing and working minds’ and ‘buying my books’!
‘BUT, WHY’? You ask again. So, being the right thing to do is not enough! Then, gracious! Think of book stores, of those unseen electronic elves that magically form the words onto a screen attached to a ‘mis-nomered’ tablet and/or laptop…did you know that a “‘killer whale’ is a ‘misnomer’ for what is one of the gentlest marine creatures known to man?” Actually, that is a very good description of my books (NOT, the ‘marine creature’ thingy!) AND a good reason for you, ALL your friends and all your neighbors to BUY my books. Hope I didn’t make you think of going to Sea-World…that’s much more expensive than buying my books.
Now, go back and read the first line of this missive! I believe you folks to be good and honest people, so I ask you, did I not convince you to buy my books?
It’s not easy to make a fool of oneself, but for the sake of my books I’ll do that in the very next blog post I write but, for now, think of these good reasons I’ve given you here to buy my books.
‘Dimwittingly’ yours!
BR Chitwood – September 11, 2018
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The Jest
©The Jest
When skin sags with age,
And liver spots engage,
As joints scream in pain,
The skies fill with rain.
The mirrors now convey
Whiskers ugly gray,
Peaked orbs set deep,
Ever more to weep.
Puddles turn to streams,
The mind yet dreams
Fancy plots and schemes
On a myriad of themes!
What, then, is this clatter?
This Circling mass of matter?
But a simple and silly jest
Of a Planetary Guest?
A poem by: BR Chitwood – August 23, 2018
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