Frankenberry's Attic

A Frankenblog

March 2024

  • Wall (poem)

    In response to … Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt: ‘temperature’ Write a poem of 37 words, not including the title, using the word “temperature” … no other stipulation. ///////////////////////////////////////// Wall The devil and an ordinary angel sat Reclining on Recalling a wall Their divide That bordered a stream running North and South East and West The… Continue reading

  • So Then Sunday: Tricking The Whole – Song

    The cable was out last night for a short period so I spent a portion of my evening listening to some old song parodies of mine and impressing myself. “Really?” “What?” “Have you ever heard of humility” “Hey, it’s a little early for that, temps are still a bit cool ’round here” “(sigh) You’re an… Continue reading

  • Behind the Red Door (a poem – revisit)

    This is from last year at Mother’s Day and a response now to a dVerse poets prompt about writing something of a building. The link explains the prompt. ////////////////////////////////////////// May 29, 2023 On my way into work early last week, driving my usual route, a few backroads through some pretty suburbia (one of the reasons… Continue reading

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  • Cherry Blossom (a girl)

    A new dVerse poets prompt of cherry blossoms She smelled of cherry blossoms in our walks to a point of hanging in her wake “Hey, what are you doing? Keep up” “Sorry” I would say but still keeping a half step behind claiming whatever might mind for that halted step and scent carried my way… Continue reading

  • So Then Sunday: Don’t Go Back To Trumpville (song)

    So Then Sunday From back in early December. To R.E.M.’s “Don’t Go Back To Rockville” Another tune that says stuff ////////////////////////////////////////// Don’t Go Back To Trumpville Looking at old hell a new time Wonderin’ what we’ve done to be so cursed In the possibility that The Orange Devil could usher somethin’ worse Only this time… Continue reading

  • Air (poem)

    Air I’ve been here before In February When it tries change color Promising gold in a world of tin As air doesn’t color I’m always the fool Air is air It’s just there it hovers my eyes in the bleak but though with a wink sits on my lips like an imp waiting want halts… Continue reading

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  • Sunroof

    So my “new” not new but still new enough to me new car, a 2013 Nissan Juke, has a few bells and whistles that BB, my pretty recently totaled 2008 Toyota Scion XB, didn’t have though it does share a few old tootles with BB that I was lucky enough to come across, quite by… Continue reading

  • So Then Sunday: Stuck In Democracy’s Fight (song)

    Just going back a couple of months on this one … ////////////////////////////////////////// Not much of a post here, no story, just another political parody in my long list of such, this one about what is at stake in this coming election. Will it be continued democracy or a creeping fascism? Shame on you GOP for… Continue reading

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  • Angel of Death: End of Days, Route 9 Poughkeepsie Part Two: “The Conversation” … revised

    A newly revised part two to something I wrote a while back about seeing the “Angel of Death” in the middle of route 9 in Poughkeepsie, a post that is visited again and again by readers here (actually now my most viewed post since I wrote it a few Springs ago)  which is just waaaay… Continue reading

  • Putin’s Patsies (song)

    Thought Friday night to revisit the Green Acres theme song again for some quick fun (fun being relative of course to a world where fun is all about destruction and the forcing of will) a revisit as I have been here before for a couple of Margie Q themes, Greene Crackers ONE and TWO. This… Continue reading

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