Randy Stark

The Nu-Beatels

Literally rolling back the hands of time To when Geroge, Jhon, Raul and Rigno Fell in with the Guns and Moises branch Of the New Tribute School While in France, Mauritius, and Belarus. As my guitar gently holds its value. Give me more, Hey hey hey Give me more. © 2020 Randy Stark Please visit […]

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Experts

Think. Declare. Claim. Question. Believe. Caution. Insist. Recommend. Discuss. Determine. Maintain. Tend. Argue. Dismiss. Discover. Provide. Advise. There is no shortage. © 2020 Randy Stark Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.

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Fractal

I met myself coming and going, Splitting my time between Second guessing myself And trying to collect myself.   If I’m like me When I look in the mirror I’m beside myself. We’ll see ourselves out. © 2020 Randy Stark Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The Road.

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Dancers

With the apprentice windsock A loose ensemble becomes a corps. Then three thin candle wicks,   Exquisitely tapered perfections From oleander white to yolk yellow To Mario coins.   Suddenly a company! En pointe! Porch Club Dance Theatre! © 2020 Randy Stark Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and my page at Write Up The

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Discount Memory

Fall sports in spring. Heat advisory in winter. Waspion (hybrid wasp and scorpion) Being detained by anti-terrorism authorities. Gas ‘n’ Go crawling with disinfectant wipes. A century ago there was a processing plant here, Olives and apricots. Fine. Pay, tank up, and get out. © 2020 Randy Stark Please visit my website at www.randystark.com and

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Some Kind of Not

I’m often asked about   The camel in the recliner Clapping at the tropical fish Floating across the giant screen.   Even with all the evidence on my side, I’m an expert at odds with reality. I’m just saying it ended two nights ago. I was born too, too late, too, you know. © 2020

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On Poetry

“Poetry gives not so much a nostalgia for youth, which would be vulgar, as a nostalgia for the expressions of youth. It offers us images as we should have imagined them during the “original impulse” of youth. Primal images, simple engravings are but so many invitations to start imagining again…the fact is not enough, the

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Checkout Time

Reading was one of the few things I could do this summer. I read books, 34 of them. (Some of the books I’ve blogged about previously.) By category: 27 works of fiction, 6 nonfiction, and one poetry collection. English was the original language of 33 of the books, 1 was an English translation of a

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Fresh Reading (2 of 3 posts)

I’ve paid insufficient attention to contemporary fiction as I’ve aged out of the demographic. I recently chose to read a batch of new fiction because of recommendations and references; in many cases these were eye-opening lollapaloozas, elegant debuts, starred reviews, short list that, finalist this and winner of the prestigious other, often hilariously funny, flawlessly

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