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Books
· Coruscated Confabulations: Oh! The Humanity!

· Marooned on Moloka'i: Coconuts, Dreams & Death

· Saunas and War Toys

· Falling Off the Mountain (poems)

· Santa Cruz Sargasso, Berkeley Fog (poems)

· U S Chemical and Biological Defense Respirators


Short Stories
· The Jade Compass

· A Plethora of Papas

· A Great Many Moons Ago...

· Catenary Roe, a tail (sic) of Old Monterey

· The Great Venuezuelan Beaver Cheese OODA Loop

· The Saint Valentine's Day Mass Accretion (a short story)

· Everything you know is wrong...(part II)

· Everything you know is wrong...(part1)

· An Arrow for Amaterasu

· Outdoor Bob and the leaf-blower from Hell...


Articles
· Field Notes on the Species 'Homo sapien'

· Iaido: The art of Japanese sword draw...

· Obesity: To be or not to be?

· And now a word from Our Heavenly Host...

· Joseph Pujol, Le Petomane, star of the Moulin Rouge (1887)

· NorCal Coastal Cold Water Reflections, 1989/2007

· The Gold and Azure Frontier

· We the Pimples... (or) a Child's Garden of Constitutional Verses...

· Welcome to Californication, suckers!

· Confessions of a 'Yellow Fever' afflictee...


Poetry
· Solar fire of the Heavens...

· Find her in everything...

· Petrushka's Remorseful 5-Year Plan...

· The starward path: A tribute to Laika and Gagarin

· Hair today, groan tomorrow...comrade

· Merely a turn of the wheel...

· Crush depth

· The Doorway, twixt Heaven and Hell...

· Puddle Worms

· Happy Saint Valentine's Day Mass Accretion

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News
· Every writer needs egoboo (an ego boost)

· Two new books of poetry now released and available

· Santa Cruz Sargasso, Berkeley Fog (poems)

· Marooned on Molokai (a Hawaiian travel journal)

· Local Writer Not Slated to Receive Steinbeck Foundation Recognition

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For all our Froggy friends (especially Marianne and her great rack!)

by Kalikiano Kalei — Read all 118 poems by Kalikiano Kalei

I am beminded of Robert Frost, but not of his rural rusticity predilections...rather what draws me is the fact that so great was his quiver of word-mongery that he could even wax poetic about his ill-fated chicken farming endeavors in New England. Only Frosty could become so splendiferously lyrical, when contemplating his Gallus gallus domesticus flock. Of course, as a direct consequence, he ultimately received no less than four Pullet'zer Prizes for his oeuf oeure (alors, Il est maléfique!). This has, naturally, very little to do with the French Revolution, other than the fact that fiery Marienne was rumored to have a GREAT rack and made no bones about displaying it (for which I am eternally grateful!) on the barricades! [Robespierre, of course, was so enamored of Marianne that he lost his head over her!]

Tuesday, December 9, 2025


Poem Artwork

 

Die nicht genommene Kröte

von Robot Frusty (AKA: Hindliche Heinie)

 

Zwei Kröten trafen sich auf gelben Schnee,

beide bedauerten, dass er so widerlich roch,

denn beide waren durstig auf der Eisscholle;

während die eine abgelenkt in den Schatten späht

kam ein Porsche und überfuhr sie *schplatt!*

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The Toad Not Taken

By Robot Frusty (AKA Hindlicht Heinie)

 

Two toads converged on some yellow snow

Both regretful it smelled so like crap,

For both were thirsty on that icy floe;

While one was diverted, peering into shadow,

Along came a Porsche and squooshed him flat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Reviewed by Alexander Shaumyan
Reviewed on December 9, 2025
Nice tribute to Robot Frusty. :) Enjoyed the German version as well.


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