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Posted by honey & quinine 10 months ago.
Sankey Hi-Rise on Allen at Pasfield is the only location where I’ve served as an election judge, and it was fun when I started, before the honorable president’s son ascended into an inferno of his own making and took the rest of us into the f...
Posted by honey & quinine 10 months ago.
The two weeks leading up to and two weeks following my reading of a Vachel Lindsay poem at the re-dedication of the Johnny Appleseed Museum and Education Center in Urbana, Ohio — except for times when I’ve been seriously dating soft company &#...
Posted by honey & quinine 10 months ago.
The title seems appropriate for the day and for the post, my most recent poem. When some of my friends introduce a poem saying, “This is my last poem,” I hope they’re wrong because some of my friends approaching the microphone at Robbie&...
Posted by honey & quinine 10 months ago.
Thanks to all who has expressed concern over my pause-city of posting here lately. I’m having a very busy March that became that way soon after my most recent and — up to then — only post this month. Having my furnace go south on me la...
Posted by honey & quinine 11 months ago.
I’ve fallen out of step with all Honey & Quinine, the AeroKnow Museum blog and the Conger Family blog over the last month. An anonymous H&Q reader reminded me of this yesterday, and I appreciate someone mentioning it, reminding me. By choice...
Posted by honey & quinine 11 months ago.
Oh Hiatus Away from a Pathete by Job Conger ‘Til the AeroKnow Museum becomes what it needs to be, I’ll have no time to savor moments sharing poetry. I’ve sold my books already, friends, to those inclined to buying. Pretending my lyri...
Posted by honey & quinine 11 months ago.
The spam from the hardware store didn’t mean what it said, but millions of readers understood, just the same. Perhaps I should have found comfort in the solace reaped from that unhappy conclusion. After all there is a satisfaction “element...
Posted by honey & quinine 11 months ago.
A few weeks ago I visited the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES, tax supported employment agency) and left on what James Brown might have called “the good foot,” resolved to get cracking with the search for a viable employer. Ov...
Posted by honey & quinine 11 months ago.
Yesterday’s post described my sudden fall getting out of the truck with a hand on the vehicle to steady me as I walked around to the front porch and the other hand full of things from an early morning interview. One and a half steps into the trek, I...
Posted by honey & quinine 11 months ago.
A two-packet bowl of Apples & Cinnamon Quaker Instant Oatmeal at 4 pm. This is not “me.” I don’t snack. I’m calling it a late lunch. It is comfort action on a day when I have come to the end of my rope with the extreme cold tha...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Those lucky enough to live through age 35 acquire wisdom from the early years that the many travails suffered are eventually resolved. The searing heat, the harsh tidal wave of a friend or lover walking away in anger cools and dissipates on the beach with...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I hadn’t planned to work at Rock Ville Monday, but when I was offered a chance to earn a few pesos, I took it. Told Jorge I’d run for home the minute the sleet started to fall, I’d be out of the showroom faster than you could say “...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Last Sunday I was served with a summons to reply to a complaint filed in county court regarding my overdue bill to my roofing contractor. Not even the news of my brother Bill’s death last October hit me harder. He lived in Florida. My roofing contra...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Life is a Trolleycar by Job Conger Life is a trolleycar in motion with no station, schedule and without placarded limits to the breadth of dreams I bring aboard. It appears not at certain times Whenever I awake from sleep or mindless idleness, it’s ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
A little hunger is good for a hummin bean. I say this because it has been good for me. Before I recited Lindsay’s poetry at the big house last November, my friend named Bud — not to be confused with a bud named Friend — complimented my t...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I almost never drink coffee after 5 pm because I don’t want swallow more Burgundy than absolutely necessary with dinner to return to earth. Today’s exception is coming as night settles in after what by all rights should have been a total loss ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Dick Smothers stepped up to the microphone after Tom melodiously rendered the first notes on their comedy album, saying, “Tom, what in the world are you doing!” “Oh, I just wanted to sing about eight bars.” The audience laughed. S...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Sunday Epiphany by Job Conger written 9:15 am, Sunday, January 16, 2011 Sunday morning sunshine is beautiful to me. I said goodbye to last week in my sleep last night. The remnants of dreary shortcomings are flushed and forgotten in the sacred power of Sa...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
About a week ago, I was semi-traumatized when I arose from an evening nab taken after a terrific three hours of picking and grinning (I’m not into noses; I carry a guitar) at Gallery II’s First Friday extravaganza. I awoke to find the loose le...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Imagine that in July 2008 a powerful radio sent a message in the direction of distant star, a message that said “It’s hotter than Hooter in Heater today. . .” My blog post with that headline traveled almost as far when it was picked up w...
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