David M. Perkins

@dmperkins.bsky.social

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Oz It Was

Oz it was that kept me company when
no one else would play with pariah me
when I was as outcast as Dorothy.
Forty books, beginning with The Wizard
of, through to The Magical Mimics in,
ensorcelled my days. Under covers with
a flashlight, I found a Princess, Ozma;
Jack, and Tik-Tok, the Royal Army of.
I was as guileless as Button-Bright (Don’t
know! was his most common reply, getting
lost and found again, his proclivity).
What a multihued realm Oz was, full of
witches fine and otherwise: Mombi the
wickedest, and Glinda the Good and kind.
Beneath the tree I read in, my back to
its trunk, lay the Deadly Desert, above
me the sky where happy little bluebirds fly.
—David M. Perkins
©2024 OZIANA

Cartoon: A woman in a chair watching TV News, the announcer saying, "Today's top story: nobody did anything about anything that you wanted them to do something about."

Some people use the word 'Woke' as if it's supposed to be an insult -- but mostly they use it because they can't spell 'empathetic,' 'educated,' or 'enlightened.'

"War: A massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
~ Paul Valéry, Poet and Philosopher

Be kind ... for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

The Milky Way.

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