Boom, boom, boom, boom Ian crushed Ft Myers right down Right off of its feet Ground it down into mincemeat Blew away boats and houses, bittersweet Boom, boom, boom, boom Ow, ow, ow, ow Mm, mm, mm Mm, mm, mm, mm Hated seeing its slow peninsula strut Wiping out everything door to door When it […]

I’m a red hotrod high speed driver Screaming on down the road I’m a red hotrod high speed driver Screaming on down the road Goin a 120 down to Darien Trying to lighten my load I‘m a red hotrod high speed driver Runnin on down the state line I’m a red hotrod high speed driver […]

26 September 2022 Editor’s Note: Here’s a draft of something Marlow typed back in 2017. Then, the pudgy, little big rocket man of Asia was making disturbing noises about something existential. We talked about one of the Earth’s true Big Rocket Men making similar serious noises this week, the ones about “not bluffing” about a […]

Author’s Note: Like 2016 and 2020, we got ourselves an Empire infestation in 2022. -Marlow Unbollweevilable Times Boll weevils told Georgia farmers “You better treat us right We’ll eat up all of your cotton Sleep in your grain rail tonight” Boll weevils told Georgia farmers “You don’t need no Ford machine We’ll eat up all […]

Author’s Note: As my 95-year-old dementia-afflicted Aunt readies herself for her next birthday later this month, news of QE II’s death arrived. What a heck of a reign during the most turbulent, violent, and existentially scary times of the Post Enlightenment period. She was truly a monarch for, of, and by her peoples. They deeply […]

Author’s Note: I’ve kept this in my drafts drawer for some time. With my brother’s ashes interment scheduled for early next week, it’s time to share it. -Marlow Church of the Resurrection Ft Myers FL It was an early spring 2014 day inside a southwest Florida church where we gathered for the last time to […]

la mejor enfermedad la enfermedad importada de China Naming your price in the beginning was always good advice when it came to one’s life work, but we scribblers do it for free. Compensation comes in the sharing. If it ever gets more lucrative than the price we settled for initially, beware. Check six. I just […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow takes us on another adventure in his Coastal Empire. Here at Refuge Farm, we are having our own version, featuring rolling encounters with exciting elements of America’s health care system. This morning’s edition featured finding the right place to deposit two vials of rich red fluid drawn from a willing arm. That […]

I grew up, luckily, as a sailor, with only a distant offshore relationship with land war and soldiering. As my DNA gifted preordained me to sinking in water, I learned how to swim at an early age. That life skill proved very worthwhile when I first jumped in the darkwater pool that I came to […]

Author’s Note: Loosely continuing on from my previous piece, I offer more disjointed impressions . . . – Marlow The outside world seems to be saying while we as individuals do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. In other […]