Poetry

You say you want to create
But you can’t make up your mind
Let me steer you
Into a new/old place

Stats never meant to cause you any sorrow
But they cause you plenty pain
I’m only trying to help you
Help you branch out, find a new way
Writers linked arms in publishing games

Into the world of a living wage
Living wage, living wage
Living wage, living wage
Make some gain, and profit too
Into the world of a living wage

Never wanted to mislead another
Only trying to be different from the others
Not familiar or empty and overdone
What…

Think of the sparkle and happiness children can bring.

Children illuminate and unveil so much to parents.
Like magic, we see ourselves in them.
Like an inverse mirror,
we feel and hear our parents words and attributes expressing themselves.
We hear our wrongs and rights exposed and shouting back at us.

• Our self is flayed open with blinding revulsion at what we have created.

Wonder touches the very moment their eyes open.
Alive with honest agony they cry and scream.
Upon the world left without the cord filled with Mother’s dream.
Thrust and awakened filling a new space both odd and frightening.
We see…

Unemployment

I commented to Anna V. Eskamani, my Florida House Representative, about the problems with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. It felt satisfying, but I know it will accomplish little else.

Her story, meant to help and assure Florida unemployed residents, left me with an empty feeling: The notion that we’re up a creek without a paddle. It’s a creek closely resembling a shitz creek, not unlike the Netflix show.

Enjoy my snipe:

When they say they are working to fix the problems with the online system we can read this means that it will probably be ready to use…

Dear Everything Shortform writers: please take note.

There are no secrets about formatting requirements at our publication. It baffles me why new writers here do not take the time to read our ABOUT page or pay attention to the way stories are presented before submitting stories.

You have the freedom to express yourself on any subject here, but you must follow our simple formatting guidelines. I have expressed these guidelines repeatedly in private messages to you and short-form stories in our publication.

Please find more info in our subgroup Medium Tech in the bar at the top of our main…

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Self Improvement

If you have to find a reason to determine a person’s intelligence level, something is already askew. That’s right. Whether you’re evaluating a workmate, a potential employee, or a friend, a little worm in your thinking showed you need to know the level of the wet noodle’s computation powers you’re interfacing with.

Why is that?

Is it because you’re insecure and threatened by them? Or are they acting ridiculously, indicating lunacy? Who can say? Why say at all?

The Crux

• You don’t need to size up anyone’s mental acuity.
• If you think you need to evaluate their IQ, EQ, SQ (Social Quotient)…

I created my first NFT today and it was an exciting learning experience. I posted my art on OpenSea and entered into the non-fungible market. NFTs are a hot item in an emerging world of cryptos. Any art, video, song, and illustration can be made into a token instantly marked and recorded immutably and without question as yours until it is sold. Then if your art is sold again, you receive a percentage. The process repeats forever.

Celebrities and folks like you and me are taking advantage of the craze. …