Employers find ways to get around the ADA Act. Bosses will use that “Undue Burden” clause to fire you in a hot minute. That’s why so many disabled are unemployed and if you have a job and develop a disability it’s best not to share it with your employer or co-workers. Your Disability will be used against you!!
Day: October 18, 2015
Fallen Cinders ~~ A Halloween Poem
FOR HALLOWEEN
Fallen Cinders
Don’t know if there were other beings. So far no one I’ve queried has dyed-in-the-wool knowledge of their existence.
The Doors – People Are Strange
Measuring about 4’8” they had gray-green eyes and a snarled mess of teal blue hair that fell from their heads to their ankles. A race of Cousin Its who had escaped from the Addams Family and mated with Smurfette. Every so often there would be a great divide within these walking haystacks when tentacles would emerge, grasp the being nearest to them all the while emitting spores that enabled them to engage in a type of conjugal bliss harmonizing their universe and populating future cosmos. Egg donors pushed out womb offerings for the spores’ consummation.
You must allow the bed to take you. It’s the only way. Pollination. Germination. Fruit. Appendages.
Steles push up granite flowers. Stone Flowers. Stillborn. Alien stillborns cry out for vindication.
He’s just a middle-aged painted Lolita straining to call forth the waiting semen amidst a garden of extraterrestrial after-births.
The Beatles – The Fool On The Hill
Sulky gargoyles indulged in the meadow.
State bed
Date: ca. 1698
Culture: British
Medium: Wood, covered in blue silk damask
Dimensions: 12 ft. × 6 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. (365.8 × 198.1 × 152.4 cm)
Sometimes I would watch as they chased and caught smaller humanoid beings decapitating them with a lassoed tentacle tug then planting their tiny heads as seeds with the promise of a shrunken head springtime crop during the moon’s 6th ellipses. Tasty. Delicious. Like brussel sprouts sauteed in olive oil.
Gathering at the ceremonial castle they marched in sync howling chanting:
Babbling Bitches have me in stitches.
The Babble of the rabble gives rise to bewitches.
On and on a series of feet stampeding through Wonderland. Wheelers keeping an uneven but steady tempo.
Aristocratic corpses shimmer in glee.
A dead Mariachi Band Member dances for filthy lucre.
The Cyclist body lay crumpled between sighing posts. Mangled beyond recognition. His bike wheels spinning waiting for its riders return. He was the color of repose.
Ahhh…. Look at All the Lonely People. Where do they come from? Where do they all belong?
Beatles- Eleanor Rigby
Somebody needs to check to see if Elvis is in the alligator. For there is an umbrella that will take you to the 13th floor.
We come from a long line of Firestarters, feeling nostalgic for another self but knowing that those above gather the fallen cinders.
The Old Castle
Artist: Emanuel Murant (Dutch, Amsterdam 1622–1700 Leeuwarden)
Medium: Oil on wood
The Aging Woman and Self-Validation
I can definitely relate to what Jacky O’Shaughnessy says in her video about women, aging, body image and dating. Like her I’ve been dumped for younger women and/or rejected because I’m not thick or curvy. Traded in for a PYT (Pretty Young Things). Finally I had to tell myself I will never have boobs or butt like other women. I will always be petite and I am getting older. But you know even though I don’t fit in and I’m not the “flavor of the moment” Despite numerous rejections and declining social life I would not change anything about my body. I will never get enhancements or augmentations.
America is a youth obsessed culture that will never change and men buy into that when making choices regarding which women to date or not date.
Gradually as I’ve gotten older I’ve begun to accept my body and focus less on how men see me but I have to admit that it does bother me when men in my age group for for the 20 and 30 somethings. I’m human and want to be accepted but then again we live in a society where a woman loses value as she ages. Men focus entirely on looks, body type, youth & fertility. As a result I rarely date and no I’m not open to online dating. Where can I find self validation? Only through my writing, photography and spending time with my brother Stephen who loves me no matter what.
I also greatly admire 79 year old Body Builder Ernestine Shephard. As my readers know from my previous posts I try to keep up my exercising, mainly walking as much as my work schedule will allow. Readers know that the reason I’m staying in shape is for me not to please some man. The only man I must or need to please is my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So despite my faults and flaws I’m staying fit for me and me only so I will have a better life as I get older. My objective is to stay healthy. A healthy life is all encompassing not a trend but a lifestyle so I will keep at it so I can feel better about myself.
American’s Apparel’s 62-Year-Old Supermodel: Jacky O’Shaughnessy
Espiritu en Fuego/A Fiery Spirit 