Okay boys and girls (and non-binary others), here is a variation of the “Match the Homophone Pairs” game I posted a year ago (in the “Silly Riddles and Lists” folder on this website).  The rules here are to match the clues on the left with the homophones on the right.

And here is a bonus question:  The stupefied look of the impotent on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday?

[If you are stuck, message me for the answer sheet.]

Here’s one about white privilege:

I must have too much time on my hands! Here is another cliché poem:

This is my reaction to recent reports about a Paleolithic proto-writing system. It is a prolegomena to a short story I might write in my “First” series.

Here is a short story that is a follow-up to The First Suicide.

Here is a short essay I recently wrote. Its saving grace is that it is little!

Here is a quirky essay about repatriating looted antiquities.

Time Does Stop for No One

There was a time

Before which

There was no time.

There will be a time

After which

There will be no time.

[A month ago, when I was writing the silly poem, “Has-Beens”—which contains the phrases “old hat” and “yesterday’s news”—I started thinking about clichés. That’s it! I’ll write a poem entirely out of clichés! As original as I thought this idea was, alas, “there is nothing new under the sun.” In a recent Poets and Storytellers United blog, Magaly Guerrero had posted a contest for readers to turn clichés into poems (Magaly Guerrero, “Weekly Scribblings #6: Turn Cliché into Poetry or Prose,” Poets and Storytellers United, Wednesday, February 12, 2020. Web.). In compiling a list of examples I might use for my poem, I made use of the comprehensive compendium of clichés: Lisa Lepki, “The Internet’s Best List of Clichés,” ProWritingAid, Dec 09, 2020. Web.]

Here are two silly poems: