Friday, April 6, 2018



Action Reaction Blues



Baby don’t cry
Daddy got you close
Mamma’s in the kitchen
making us some pie
Uncle’s on the lookout
keeping watch upon the street
action/reaction baby
no reason for defeat
no reason to cry
baby don’t cry

action/reaction baby
people needing changing
the world won’t change
time is all that’s changing
not the times

Grandpa went by folks 
still sleeping on the street
in tents beneath Yesler Bridge
seems there’s reason for defeat
no reason to cry baby
no reason to cry

action/reaction baby
people needing changing
the world won’t change
time is all that’s changing
not the times

people pushing against people
back and forth brickbats fly    
time
is all that's changing
not the times   
they ain’t changing
every action has its sequel
action/reaction be equal

baby don’t cry
daddy got you close
mamma’s in the kitchen
making us some pie
uncle’s on the lookout
keeping watch upon the street
action/reaction baby
there’s no reason for defeat
no reason to cry

babies need changing
that’s why babies cry
but time
is all that’s changing
not the times   





copyright © Dick Russell
                2018



Saturday, March 31, 2018

A Personal Space


A place where Seymour went
for inspiration
the space he dug beneath his house
his cave
where elves helped produce
boolean one day and a fast
very fast Cray computer next

In this space a mind may roam
a cosmos
a realm contained in a domain
secure from intrusion

where a mind may ponder
cosmology’s constants
where a mind may
wander where it may




copyright © Dick Russell
                2018





Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Forty-Five Years On


they’d rather steal from you than buy from your store
their senses cue on stimuli others ignore

chanting dancing
on the warpath still
networks of networks intertwine
assaults subliminal
   touches unfelt
penetrations unnoticed

once great powers now city-states
defend their domains

those that rule
face resistance on real ground

but cyber’s fifth column
is inside the city

cannot be turned back




Dick Russell

copyright © 2018

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