Crowonthewire.Poet

A superhero of all things lint and donuts. Click Belly Button Man. https://mftulin.medium.com/belly-button-man-02f495b19c55?sk=13f99baeb2d2f3ab7cf17707a8dc9c30 “I’m not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.” — Emo Philips.

From Sissy Hankshaw to Alexander Portnoy. View at Medium.com View at Medium.com

A poetic delivery room memoir. Photo copyrighted by the author. Water Has Broken. View at Medium.com View at Medium.com

A narrative poem about a family therapist’s last case.— Read on The Worst Case Scenario. Here’s the revised version of the poem: To Hell with God and Country By Mark Tulin The family that made me quit therapy had sister who never came home, a mother who neglected her young, an alcoholic father who gambled, and a delinquent son named John. Their row home faced a cement square, around the…

  I walk down the street looking at my reflection in each car window. I see a wrinkled face, a bent-over body and wonder if that’s really me. It was just a few short years ago I walked on the same block, looked in similar car windows and saw a young girl in shorts with long flowing hair and a bounce in her gait, forever to stay the same. ©️MFT

  Enter quiet, enter peace. I need a refuge. I’m so weak and vulnerable. The sunlight blinds my eyes. I need a church of serenity. Need to sit inside the hollowed-out bark of a fallen tree. Watch the sun play off a spiderweb wheel as I breathe in fond memories from a ventilator tube… I whistle like Dylan to the cacophony of bluebirds and sparrows. Chase the otters down the stream, skipping off…

How aging cured my youthful delusions. Photo by JP Sanabria on Unsplash. Edited by the author. “Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you should have been.”— David Bowie Click Old is Not a Dirty Word to read.

It takes a resourceful person and a stacked shopping cart to survive on the street. Photos copyrighted by the author. “The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.”— Pearl S. Buck Click The Suff of Homelessness to read.

It is wildfire season again in California, and causing much devastation along the west coast and nearby states. This video poem is a tribute to the first responders of such fires, the Hotshots. May you continue to protect our homes and lives. Please enjoy my tribute to these valiant firefighters, entitled “Heroes of the Burning Fields.” For more on the Hotshots, please read my post at…

Many thanks to Crow’s Feet for publishing “Under the Jacaranda Tree” by Mark Tulin. If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.— George Burns, a comedian who lived to be a hundred. Click Under the Jacaranda Tree to read.

A sadistic dentist and his mangy dental assistant. Photo Alice Kask’s painting: Dog (2008). Curated by Europeana on Unsplash. Now rinse outStand upWallet emptiedSix-month follow-upInsurance card returnedGiven a doggy bag with floss, paste,& a Greenies treat.With a pound of soggy gauzestuffed into bloated cheeks& still in a delirious haze — I smiled with missing teeth. Click to read Bad Dentist.

Why we must not silence our comedians. Photo  by Timisu on Pixabay Take away a comedian’sshtick or gag,and we’ll take life too seriously,become an unfunny cliche — weak and bitter,like a day-old cup of coffee,and as distastefulas gas station sushi. Click to read Will Humor Become Extinct?