My daughter plays the flute in her fifth grade band and, this morning, they put on a holiday concert. Arriving early, I snagged a couple of seats near the front for snapping pictures and waited for my wife to join me.  “How are you, Steve?” one of the mom’s seated behind of me, asked.  “Fine,” […] The post So This Is Christmas  appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more

Malignancies, car crashes  Power’s decisions rash  Politics, war, ideological clash Terror marring summer skies Buildings imploding, cutting short lives Death, loss, insanity, sundering ties Young men angered over trifles Seeking fame with rifles  Innocent lives stifled Spouses swift dead Penury unexpected instead Loves replaced with dread Youth taken too soon Hearts devastated strewn Not escaping […] The post Out of Control  appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more

On morning kissed streets Mercuries fleet streak past As mothers perambulating, solidarity meet Whilst old men for whom the die’s cast Each other knowingly greet. The shopkeeper with wares Opening for the day  As youth, hale and fair Blazing bright, much to say Easy rolling gaits, tragedy unaware. Dogs walking, leashes straining Sidewalk cafes, families […] The post Autumn Morning Jog  appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more

Huddled masses, yearning to be free Enslaved to needs of you and me Grow our crops, tend our fields Beneath hard men who refuse to yield. Packing impulsive desires  Things they can’t afford to acquire  Into mails, swift to ship  As technocrats crack the whip. Clean our homes, porcelains gleaming As we whisper about them […] The post Satanic Mills  appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more

Baby ahead of me in line Eyes staring, beautiful they shine   Fresh opened, trusting, kind Shimmering wisdoms new and divine.  Not stained with adult guile  Which sorrow’s sediment piles   Ensouled only a short while  She makes me smile.  What in her life shall she see When time marches beyond me?  Flying cars? Men on Mars? […] The post Department Store Baby  appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more

The Golden Mouthed, he was the one Singing about the Father, Spirit, & Son  Intoning Triune creeds Beseeching deliverance from affliction, wrath and need.  Old words, on Sunday’s rote droned Under gold onioned domes Before workaday concerns, alone Dominate ordinary time at home.  By Monday, incense drifted away Tabletop concerns reassert sway. What’s owed me and […] The post Affliction, Wrath, & Need appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more

Billowing menace, acrid scents  Old growth, saplings charring together  While out of sight, fawns distressed race And the owl’s perch succumbs.  Golden hordes breaching firebreaks  Rapine alight windswept, rapacious, desiccation stoked   Consuming canopies, no quarter given While rooted tributaries blazing course underfoot.  Slight deluges, drawn from placid lakes Lofted by fraught metaled battalions Plunge pityingly […] The post Wildfires Of No Consequence  appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more

Things you have to do  To your body stay true. Diet, exercise, apothecary Doctors, tests, insurance mandatory.  Youth ground away  A little more each day But forget counsel’s irredentist I still have to go to the dentist.  Ever since battles malignant Naked, poked – most indignant Chattering angst free floats  Whenever I spy a lab […] The post Fighting Decay  appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more

Every tear wiped away, But not in Isreal Not in Gaza. Where’s your Messiah now?  Ukraine’s sunflowers weep, Unable to follow the sun Attrited by Third Rome’s janissaries, Iconostases rubbled By eyes in the sky weeping ruin.  Iron beasts, slain Litter desert, forest,  By isotopic arrows despoiled, Cancerous, ravenous, patient.  Empty hearths.   Children’s questions.  Abba? […] The post Jerusalem Can Wait  appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more

There will be wars  And rumors of wars The rapacious mogul knows Plying his long division in television shows. Fractional punditry Unhinged jaws, Hell’s colliers  Cast the masses sundry Into worlds polar.  Reynard’s sly Vixens too, aggrieved privilege fuming  Pushing lies The common outrage consuming. Facts elided Talking points lockstep spun No report, we’ve decided.  […] The post Reynard’s Fiddle appeared first on Waiter Rant ..read more