Is it true that only fools Cast aside all the rules? And what kind of wreck Does life become living by the deck?
A spooky basement points the direction That reveals the cloth of divination Hand painted arcana mixes with astrology It is needed to forecast what becomes our history
Candles are lit and the reading begins These are the risks taken between friends As twelve cards are circles in a zodiac reading It won't be long until the friends are barely breathing
A thirteenth card is centered between for clarity The cards are then shuffled with tainted sincerity As the High Priestess looks and patiently knows That drunken children will suffer horrendous blows
Each child gathers in wait of their own story Nonbelievers find humor in this painted glory The cards begin to lay out the demonic tale Only the High Priestess knows who will prevail
There's always one who cannot wait Opening doors to curiously investigate A magician's bag of tricks brings deception A lack of control snaps through the connection
Impulses should be resisted in the name of trust Keeping close to those with whom we surely must Following the wrong light to a false track Can take you down a path from which there is no turning back
Some of us are prone to pour gasoline on the fire Talking more than listening as we're led by our desires Love might be the death of two becoming one But the power of the two can make this path undone
It you're brave enough to face your fears It doesn't mean you won't shed true tears Step by step, the evil known patiently grows When you play with magic, there are crushing blows
The Devil plays along without sympathy While his High Priestess knows no pity Quietly, she creeps in death and darkness You cannot change fate, or its harshness
One by one their lives are taken When you dare the magic, you are forsaken Evil comes at you like a runaway train The things seen leave their traces on the brain
Accidents that align are more than coincidence And point to murderous design incident after incident We stretch to make our readings come true Crazy is as crazy does is one point of view
There is a dark design behind our waiting fate The stars align with Hell in their equal weight Astrology and tarot are the most powerful combination When it comes to the dark art of divination
(c) October 30, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” – John Adams, 2nd US president (30 Oct 1735-1826)
Sitting in church bringing our last weeks To hear the Lord as the pastor speaks Emotions felt can be good and bad The moments of life can be happy and sad
Moments of sorrow rock us to our core These are the moments that become the door These allow us to enter and to know the score The Lord comes to tell us, we can handle more
Sometimes, we have to let life fly It's okay to fall down and to cry Whatever our conditions that we know These are the ways of life that help us grow
These are the times we will need to pray Uncertain of exactly what we should say Even the pastor breaks down in sorrow Knowing life presses on into our tomorrows
(c) October 29, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
In part, science fiction involves mystery Other times, speculation about history What might have been or might well be Had things only turned out a bit differently
All the casual moments of interpretation Of events real and in the imagination From War and Peace to science fiction Invent perspectives for their depiction
Historical speculation applies deduction From known sciences to begin reconstruction Turning the few facts that might be known Into a story that has become fully grown
Alternative histories are not just pure imagination But rely on templates of the past and the machination Of theory mixed with observations from the real past Used together to formulate a fictive recast
In all the potential outcomes from darkness falling It is worth considering Mark Twain Yankee calling For an alternative better world that turned to fright As modernism is revealed as killing of the knights
Alternative history does not always determine the outcome It seems a twist of fate that brings man to save God's kingdom Behold that man and others who travel back to time's direction To bring about the future by fomenting true connection
In all the layers within these stories it seems to be That there is no such thing as one real and true history Parlor games create the illusions that we accept as real And that's the monstrosity of this alternative deal
(c) October 28, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.” – Benjamin Franklin, in The Pennsylvania Gazette
Consigned to a comedic sense of Hell There is a demon who laughingly dwells He makes his home in haunted house scare Beetlejuice is filled with tricks and dares
To call his own shots filled with this synergy It recalls the chaos of the three-ringed energy Of a circus spawned by those comedically dead While Beetle juice says the first things in his head
Don't raise unnecessary spirits from the dead That is if you want to ever come out ahead Yet, it seems that Hollywood never learns And every story told will have profitable returns
With certain pizzaz, he turns on the juice In the half-interest in what it might shake loose Whatever the theory and whatever comes what may There no backing down on this demon's resume
The story told is charmingly twisted, not new There is an aesthetic to reliving the same view Through older eyes that did not become more wise But life moves forward when its not paralyzed
Don't raise unnecessary spirits from the dead That is if you want to ever come out ahead Yet, it seems that Hollywood never learns And every story told will have profitable returns
A story told that is so perfectly stripped To its best telling doesn't need a new script It, perhaps, needs best to be left quietly alone Buried beneath a "don't do over" heavy stone
Eccentric parts sometimes only once becomes whole Sometimes a plot line visually only has one soul Even as an aside that whispers supernatural complications A story is best told with a new vision and imagination
Don't raise unnecessary spirits from the dead That is if you want to ever come out ahead Yet, it seems that Hollywood never learns And every story told will have profitable returns
(c) October 27, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
