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• The 143rd Kentucky Derby, A Thing of Beauty!

  By elbrookman on May 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Beauty is a problem in our entire culture, art, music, poetry, sports, relationships with others and our everyday existence. It is a problem because we no longer imagine beauty as a serious way of knowing. I am here to tell… Read More ›

• Annapolis, Streets Always Crowded

  By elbrookman on March 26, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Church Circle, This town’s marquee Ringing bells of 300 hundred years Opens a curtain, Two shows a night Coming and going Ghosts get in free.   Going at midnight Aging in my walking Limping red brick to red brick Toward… Read More ›

• 2016 “OLD MY ASS” AWARDS

  By elbrookman on November 27, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

    As the year comes to a close, it is time to honor those who don’t stop pursuing life and actually show age is just a number.   #10 (Feb.) Peyton Manning At age 39, became the oldest Quarterback to… Read More ›

• Grain of Sand

  By elbrookman on June 19, 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  Don’t underestimate your life, Your dreams or your place in history. I know you feel as “just a grain of sand” Among trillions, helpless and caught in just one wave   Among trillions crashing onto shores. Life and others will… Read More ›

• OUTSIDE BAR

  By elbrookman on June 12, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  OUTSIDE BAR   Humid night in June Under an ascending crescent moon. Fingers twisting her matted hair behind one ear Pulling it all to one side Leaving a shoulder bare.   Her beauty is crescent And I, drinking my beer… Read More ›

• Cool Hand Trump: “I Can Eat Fifty Eggs.”

  By elbrookman on April 3, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

         In the opening scene of the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman’s character is seen cutting the heads off a small town’s parking meters, destroying two long rows of bureaucratic parking slot machines with no payout. It… Read More ›

• The Last Thing To Go

  By elbrookman on January 18, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Where kisses go that’s been kissed, All kisses ever kissed? A list of things pressed to my lips, Foreheads, cheeks, inner thighs, Bourbon or the sweeter sister rye. There must be an immortal trace Of kissing, Like judgement for my… Read More ›

• The Night of Temptation Eyes

  By elbrookman on February 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

       My teenage hormones were out of control. Every day I saw my brother Larry come and go in his new, mean-green AMC Javelin. A 343 cubic –inch, four-barrel V8, 280 horsepower machine that went from zero-to-sixty in less than… Read More ›

• DANGEROUS PALEFACE

  By elbrookman on February 5, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

     Bob Hope did a movie entitled “Son of Paleface,” about a northern city-slicker, graduate of Harvard, who went out west for the first time and entered a tough, western town on a miniature donkey.    There is an establishment… Read More ›

• Noir in a Small, Southern, Florida Town

  By elbrookman on January 31, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

      How could I have known this night would lead to my hyoid twitching from the cold blade of a barber’s razor, and butchery amid the smell of Bolt Barbers Bay Rum?      What takes place on a Friday night… Read More ›