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Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
A Singular Consensus by Job Conger My friends and acquaintances do not serve my consciousness as the committee of my morality, the jury for my soul, the arbiters of my joys and sorrows, even though I am closer to them than I am close to Afghanistan, Joe B...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
On Saturday, October 22, I shared the story of my involvement with the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio and visit to John Chapman’s (“Johnny Appleseed’s) grave in Ft. Wayne, Indiana with an audience that filled all seats at Vach...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
He Embraced the Void by Job Conger - - Dennis Camp died October 3, 2011. It doesn’t matter how he died the outcome is the same he’s GONE! - What is there to say when it’s too late to say goodbye His echoes linger louder than his life. -...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
Chap books were originally smaller-than-typical, inexpensive books without fancy bindings of ribald or, at least, amusing poems and essays and typically 50 or fewer pages, not illustrated, sold by traveling peddlers in England. They had no moral goal oth...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
There was considerable surprise and exhultation when I awakened on September 5th of the year 2011, my birthday, something I had not expected to do when I was 25. During the first half of the month, I rode the high: purchased new sheets and pillowcases...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
Starting in October, I’m posting mostly pictures at the AeroKnow Museum blog — http://aeroknow.wordpress..com – and posting human interest vignettes here at Honey & Quinine. WHY Because enthusiasts “in the know” eithe...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
DATELINE: SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS The Pharmacy Spoken Word Night, September 22, 2011 - I was looking forward as much to hangin’ with the gang after as I was the night leading up to it. That said, I also know that since I want to be a poet, and I am ab...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
Comb in the Airport Parking Lot by Job Conger – There is a comb in the airport parking lot: black plastic, a little bit flexible I’m sure no handle, not a short comb a right-back-pocket-of-your-jeans comb. It’s a long, keep-it-in-your- inside-le...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
Flimsy Whimsy by Job Conger - If you think ev’ry poem you write must rhyme ,please consider a different paradigm, sir .– written at 6:45 am, September 21, 2011 – The poem shared is not Copyright. If you like it, copy it and pass it off ...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
The Open Gallery Stream of Consciousness I Sailed Until I Saw Lenore by Job Conger Sitting on a couch at The Pharmacy, open night at the gallery, surveying a wide open corner of painted works in progress, color-spangled panorama. I’m an observeer wi...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
Anyone who memorizes poetry to recite, instead of reading it well from a piece of paper, like a tight rope walker who works without a net, has no excuse for flubbing a line in public sharing. Reading a poem well from a page is far preferrable to reciting ...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
A friend for years, a fine poet in his own “write” wrote me yesterday asking if the David Bishop noted in the State Journal-Register obituaries September 7 was the same one he remembered as being a major player, a major asset to a group of Spr...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
I will be reciting the poems of Vachel Lindsay in the restored Illinois Senate Chambers at the Old State Capitol in historical downtown Springfield at 2 pm, Saturday, September 10. The reciting is part of Arts in History, a day-long event produce...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
A Place by Job Conger — There is a place for peace in me, a secret, hidden part, where I can go when slings and arrows penetrate my heart. – There is a place for peace in me where hate does not prevail, with gentle breeze and silver seas on wh...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
A few years ago, the administration and stockholders of Kentucky Fried Chicken changed the public presence of their name to K.F.C. for the same reason that, in polite company, most of us say “S.O.B.” Spelled out, it seems more a threat to th...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
Ballad of the Nearly Resolved by Job Conger — I’ve had me some sweethearts Who said they thought me wise. Traded love for some bountiful Baskets of lies. It was all so mercantile, I recall with a sigh. I guess I was born to be a single, older ...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
This paragraph is an introduction for recent Honey & Quinine subscribers who are not familiar with my Brotherhood of Jobs page published in the arts pages adjunct to my AeroKnow Museum website. www.aeroknow.com/arts/brothJobs.htm – To view the A...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
I Yamm a Poet by Job Conger – I have dominion over form and line. My fav’rite day comes with a valentine. Most nights I’m to bed by half past nine. I yamm a poet. – Old Walter Whitman is the king of blank Verse. Thomas Stearns wrot...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
My recent new poem “How Can You Tell Them” netted two new subscribers to Honey & Quinine within 12 hours of its posting, and reaction at a local poetry speaking gathering where most of the audience had not heard ME recite my poetry before,...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
A cooperative visual artists’ gallery has launched a FOURTH THURSDAY event for poets and essayists and hep qats in purple shirts and neck ties to ad-lib pseudophisticated corn jive. The place is called The Pharmacy, located on the northwest ...
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