Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Hardesty’s Corner of Humor



Life Insurance 


A plan that keeps you in a lifetime of poverty so

your insurance agent can die rich.  

Hardesty’s Corner of Humor

 

POET


What a Kentuckian does when he pours Bourbon. 


Sunday, June 16, 2024

Me, My Dog, and A Ghost

 

Sometimes when you're in a bad place

life becomes a better Hell, you may pick

up your cross and carry it to a mountaintop,

but you'll never pick up your headstone from

your grave. Death’s patient as the sunlight, no 

chains can hold back the rushing of time. Where

insults breach propriety and inflamed barbs may

constitute threats, you laugh at the circus within. 

Wobbled restraint. My heightened shadows crest 

upon the beaten past and the sunlight 

  Herding Cretan milk goats and chanting Greek verses  to poly gods, writers ascribe  to the pastoral hymns of sorrow where time’s the thief...