Into The Oblivion

 

Hardesty Humor

 

Husband: Honey, can you please make my oatmeal less lumpy this morning? It is hard to swallow! 

Wife: She looks at him and grins. She continues to stir the oatmeal. Then drops a huge clump into his bowl.

Husband: Honey, it’s still lumpy! Didn’t you hear me? 

Wife: She grabs a skillet and knocks him upside his head! 

Husband: Honey, can you hand me a straw? 

- John Hardesty

The Sun

The Sun never shines out of fashion, always 

holding on to its fiducial light. Our Sun’s 

immortal stare is clinched there for time 

immemorial, never blinking, and solemnly and

steadfast blared through every Chinese and

Egyptian Dynasty’s demise, never wavered in 

its glorious gleam whilst the Romans slaughtered 

the Holy Jew, and never surrendered its glare 

when Fascism soared beneath the Sun’s breath. 

The Sun engulfed five mass extinctions, and 

charred the Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, and 

the Tyrannosaurus. Watched the deluge cool

the Earth into the Ice Age.

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The Graveyards

We seldom visit the dead out of disrespect 

from laziness and neglect.

The moments of 

Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison was the Reptilian King,

Upon the highway an Indian’s spirit

Commandeered your fragile soul.

The Bohemian shrug, 

The Dark Room

We have all entered a dark room

Scared, fearless, and young

Of what monsters we’ll exhume. 

                                                      

How can I act normally insane?

When death has taken everyone

And everything that I'll never regain.

Lo, kept this pain within 

Neither God nor the River Jordan

Could wash away my sin. 

This dark room has no windows

To gaze out upon the refuge 

Of these silent innuendos. 

The coincidences of chance

And the universal of mistakes

That led to romance.

Those who offer condolences 

With their synthetic smiles

And parapet fences. 

The last pursuit

Of angling and dangling 

For irrevocable and irretrievable fruit. 

How many years

Upon this unforgiving earth 

Man wastes with useless tears?