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Posted by honey & quinine 2 days 20 hours ago.
St. Patrick’s Day Song
by Job Conger
(introduction)
There’s a hint of winter leaving in the breeze upon the loch,
The kiss of spring upon the cheek beneath a sapphire sky.
It’s the time of year I harken to be something that I’m n...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 days 21 hours ago.
I Write
. . . . . . . . Father Halibut
by Job Conger of Springfield, Illinois
I have a muse.
Her name is Mickey.
When she bites my brain
I never get a hickey.
Magically, Mickey
helps me focus;
nurtures the perennial
rose or crocus.
Happy Museketeers sing
...
Posted by honey & quinine 6 days 10 hours ago.
Esau
by Job Conger of Springfield, Illinois
Esau: man whose many motions
mask a heart of stone.
Esau: jerker and a tweaker
and he lives alone.
Esau: man who likes his drinking
when the day is done.
Esau: man who goes ahunting
with an empty gun.
Esau: soci...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 17 hours ago.
Tenth Grade High School Sophomore
Even with a critical math deficiency, I bravely committed myself to an algebra course because it was required for those aspiring to school past 12th grade.
….Did you notice what I did not say in the sentence above ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 21 hours ago.
This is my 902nd post at Honey & Quinine. I’m starting to feel like a real blogger.
If you encountered the magazine pictured above in a pile at a garage sale, you’d probably pass it by and purchase something more interesting, say an eight-...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 1 day ago.
Hail YES, this is Part Six. I just spelled the number differently in the title. You should have pronounced it the same. The first “x” escaping (excaping if you’re the son of G. Herbert Walker B.) from your mind’s mouth should bee...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 2 days ago.
Sunday I helped my friend George at the Springfield Home & Builders’ Show downtown. This is my third year doing this. The show is a true harbinger of SPRING as sure as plastic-sealed pallets of fertilizer and wood chips lined up on the backside ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 2 days ago.
Sunday I helped my friend George at the Springfield Home & Builders’ Show downtown. This is my third year doing this. The show is a true harbinger of SPRING as sure as plastic-sealed pallets of fertilizer and wood chips lined up on the backside ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 3 days ago.
I am lucky to live close to one of the best harmonica players I know — Mark Russillo — and three of the best guitar players I know — Sam Crain, Ocean Alexander and Job Conger, all of whom live on the 400 block of West Vine in beautiful c...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 4 days ago.
Earlier this year, I was asked to write an article about the new Arcadia Publishing book Brother James Court is about to offer for sale. The “‘Court” is a residential facility for adults with learning disabilities which was established a...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 15 hours ago.
Get out of Cuba.
Does anyone still fear that some wacky poundin’-his-shoe-heel-at the-United-Nations-building commie Russky is going to establish a nuclear boutique in Havana that threatens Florida I think not. For one thing, if anyone’s goin...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 2 days ago.
Another one that’s out of sequence. Sorry for the snafu.
Fifth Grade
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. . . . On my 10th birthday, September 5, 1957, dad invited me to come down to the store at closing time and promised we’d go out for dinner. We ate at a place Dad fr...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 2 days ago.
I”m Cold Bill Put on a Sweater
by Job Conger
Life is a sad lament.
Where have the good days went
The imperfections of our fellow humanity::
a rising chorus of obscenic banality,
pompous and flaming froths,
modern-day Visigoths,
their vicious ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 3 days ago.
“When the battle of the day is won / You may be sick and tired / But you’ll be a man, my son.” The words are from the song “Pick Yourself Up,” (music by Jerome Kern and words by Dorothy (I just read it and should have writte...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 4 days ago.
I’ve not been reading the State Journal-Register, Springfield’s daily newspaper, as much as I used to. I have subscribed most of my adult life, even when not freelancing writing frequently as I am now. When I was working daily at “Rock C...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 6 days ago.
Might have been at Facebook or it might have been here that I recently lamented my new habit of coming home tired and depressed from Rock Circus and falling asleep in my chair after eating a hefty evening meal to crush my angst into a nap, awakening about...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 6 days ago.
Americans are having a rough time with the language. It’s hard for some of us to speak and write with a natural style so that we’re easily understood, fun to read and respected without offending social or ethnic sub strata of our wonderful rai...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 6 days ago.
AN APOLOGY to regular readers: On the night of Feb 27/28 I discovered I had not published what follows. If you’re following my autobio, you’ll note this post begins right after I took a major “belt” from my namesake and definer (th...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 6 days ago.
Castaway Consolation
by Job Conger
I want to tell you that my mind’s in a mess.
I’ve nearly quit my search for true happiness.
Gone is the dream I thought was mine without a hitch.
Now I’ve become a freaking son of a bit ch.
A bitter...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 6 days ago.
Biting Back
by Job Conger
When I was four years old . . .
I spelled the word “cat” with a “c a t”
and it all made perfect sense to me.
When I was six years old . . .
I leearned that a sentence ends with a dot
called a period. I nev...
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