KATTISH - Loss of Amber

No lap kat she

an independent breed

no less companion

hung around . . . nearby

ten years.

Amidst the dark of this last night

no more

left earth as softly as a shadow

gone forever

leaving this exquisite pain of loss

decade of memories

much easier to hold.

Street Doctor – China 1981

 

Still looking through old 35 mm slides.

Amber & Ellie – 4 A Blue Ribbon Day

Amber & Ellie – 4 A Blue Ribbon Day

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Bruce Louis Dodson

 

Practice pays off.  I won three ribbons today. Best Bitch! They got that right. I am so happy, and a bit tired. It’s not easy being a show dog. I suppose Hollywood will be calling before long, and glamour magazines. Amber will probably be jealous, but that’s show biz.

 

I got a big kiss from the houseman.

Amber & Ellie - 3

 

I have to tell you what happened today. I was taken to the beauty parlor . . . again. I don’t mind too much, but the catty remarks start to get to me after a while. “She needs more hair on her legs,” the stylist said. Can you believe it? Tell me girls, which one of you wants more hair on her legs?
Whatever.

 

This whole trip makes me nervous. It can only mean one thing. Another beauty pageant. I’m not sure I’m ready. Amber says I’ll be okay, but what does she know — just a cat. I’ve been nervous all day, but trying to chill out.

Varieties of Truth

Varieties of Truth

Absolute truth                              Acceptable truth                              Affordable truth
Alienable truth                             Awful truth                                      Basic truth
Biological truth                           Bitter truth                                       Burden of truth
Comparative truth                       Conclusive truth                              Constructive truth
Contradictory truth                     Cosmic truth                                    Costly truth
Cryptic truth                               Damned truth                                   Deceptive truth
Disgusting truth                          Dismal truth                                     Empirical truth
Ethical truth                                Evasive truth                                    Ever-present truth
False truth                                   Glaring truth                                    God’s own truth
Gospel truth                                Half truth                                         Historical truth
Honest truth                                Horrible truth                                  Imaginary truth
Inner truth                                   Ironic truth                                      Incontrovertible truth
Joyful truth                                 Liar’s truth                                       Liberating truth
Living truth                                 Mysterious truth                             Mythical truth
My truth                                      Naked truth                                     Natural truth
Noble truth                                  Obvious truth                                  One and only truth
Painful truth                                Partial truth                                     Pitiful truth
Plain truth                                    Political truth                                  Popular truth
Practical truth                              Pragmatic truth                               Prevailing truth
Questionable truth                       Realizable truth                              Real truth
Recognizable truth                      Righteous truth                               Scientific truth
Shocking truth­                             Simple truth                                    Spiritual truth
Tabloid truth                                Terrifying truth                               Theological truth
Timely truth                                 Twisted truth                                  Ugly truth
Ultimate truth                              Unacceptable truth                         Unavoidable truth
Unbelievable truth                       Undeniable truth                            Understandable truth
Unfortunate truth                         Universal truth                               Unparalleled truth
Unpleasant truth                          Unprecedented truth                       Unquestionable truth
Untold truth                                 Variable truth                                  Welcomed truth

Bushido Steel 2

Bushido Steel

Only the winter wind surrounds me.

soldiers do not come to look for death

My sword’s calligraphy is perfect.

Brush of steel

red ink on white snow.

Published: Pirene’s Fountain - 2014

Saw this old photo today and cant resist posting this poem again.

Bukowski – On Writing 1

Bukowski summed up his philosophy in a letter he wrote in 1963: “Somebody […] asked me: ‘What do you do? How do you write, create?’ You don’t, I told them. You don’t try. That’s very important: ‘not’ to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It’s like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks you make a pet out of it.

I wish it came as frequently to me as it did him.