Stubborn

 

He refused to pull

on the loose end

and had to begin

all over again.

            -30-

Chris Hanch 8-8-2024

Eternity

 

Currently, I am a 24/7,

365 man alive, a consumer,

repetitive and redundant

resumer of that which has

been done before.

I am an exhumer of history, a

sometimes man of mystery

seeking to find the answers

to the interrogatories in life,

why?

We are all one-timers,

short-timers who speak our

minds then leave the best

and worst of us behind.

Forget me the flowering,

Forget-me-not. I am once

was and shall never be again.

Pay homage, give praise, bitch

and complain only Eternity,

the unextinguishable flame,

my friends, remains forever

the same.

               -30-

Chris Hanch 8-7-2024

What if?

 

The co-mingling of cells

a trillion times over. Billions

of years, remove or add just one

rainy day. The lone goose that

didn’t make it winging south

for the winter. The brick layer

makes a mistake and starts all

over again. Imagine one stalk

of corn harvested from a

thousand acre farm in Iowa

many years ago. Countless Stars

are born nameless yet continue

to shine anonymously. How

many generations did it take

to bring the likes of you and I

into being? Think of the

happenings otherwise which

would have left us unborn into

this life, one errant cell gone

awry on any given Tuesday a

thousand years ago in Alexandria,

Egypt. What if that misplaced

brick had not been corrected?

What if, what if, what if innumerable

times over? Imagine the myriad

possibilities. Why or why not, how is

it the miraculous being of you and I

in the here and now? One missing

or mismatched relative from way

way back, and I wouldn’t be here

writing this at all. What are the chances?

Freakin’ amazing!

                   -30-

Chris Hanch 8-2-2024

Near Final Phase of Me

 

It’s hard

to believe

looking into

the mornin’

mirror—

livin’

lovin’

learnin’

in 77 years

of life,

this is what

has become

of me.

              

-30-

Chris Hanch 7-31-2024

The Greatest Gifts

 

You and I have the ability

to think, to feel, to interact

and respond. The sun, moon

and stars cannot compare.

This is the beauty and the

curse of our humanity.

Neither king nor queen

has been gifted and blessed

with any more or less.

                    -30-

Chris Hanch 7-28-2024

Alas, to My Dismay

 

In the History of Man, and given

the places I have been and the personal

histories I have made, seventy-seven

years is not so many. I have forgotten

memories more than I can remember

and am reduced to say these waning days,

each day as another is seemingly the

same. Alas, to my dismay, given my

advancing age, life has come to be lived

that way.

                              -30-

Chris Hanch 7-21-24

Presidential Immunity

 

For your 2024 ruling on Presidential Immunity compromising

235 years of US Democracy, as no one is above the law, may

your names go down indelibly in historical infamy. Shame,

shame, shame on you.

• John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, ...

• Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, ...

• Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice, ...

• Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice, ..

• Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice, ...

• Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice,

Chris Hanch

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Presidential Immunity

For your 2024 ruling on Presidential Immunity compromising

235 years of US Democracy, as no one is above the law, may

your names go down indelibly in historical infamy. Shame,

shame, shame on you.

• John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, ...

• Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, ...

• Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice, ...

• Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice, ..

• Neil M. Gorsuch, Associate Justice, ...

• Brett M. Kavanaugh, Associate Justice

Submitted to Kansas City Star 7-2-2024

Chris Hanch

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