Steve Haarman

I KNOW THE SCORE

Hey big spender

They yelled at me

I had worked hard

Couldn’t fake it on the job

So I bought a new car

Then heard the hecklers

Who were really just jealous

Sometimes I’m happy,

Right now I am tired, but

I’ll take time to pick

Up my baby and my baby

 just cares for me and

they can’t take that away from me

she is a woman and all

I need to get by

I tell it like it is

And that is good enough for me

And for my baby.

Stanski

August 9, 2024, ^

This is how I feel

Let the good times roll

I think I’ve got a fever

I’m thinking you’ve changed and

I could drown in my own tears

You don’t know what love is. Never did.

I could have told you so. Gee baby, aren’t

I good to you. I’ll go crazy without you.

You don’t know me at all. Do you?

The red top you wear can be seen  

At the dark end of the street.

You don’t seem to care.

The shadow of your smile upsets me,

Because you’re leaving me.

I’ve seen some miserable people

Who plan to marry, and God bless

The child they plan to raise.

I must confess, its raining in my life,

But I’ll look over the rainbow.

Life is bound to be better

On the other side.

I can’t wait to see.

Stanski

August 8, 2024, ^

LOVING ART

I love art and don’t know why.

Blame it on my youth. I would wake up

Io didn’t know what time it was. I had newspapers

To deliver. They were at Ron’s place in his garage

Had to get them at 5 A.M.

A blackbird would call to me. It was a lament for Linus

He had died in an accident. Everyone had loved him.

He helped anyone who needed it, Often singing mignon’s song

He was a good singer and talker. He once said “I fall in love too easily”

He loved everyone and put them first. Never thinking, nobody else but me

Always alert and never lucid.

Whin I finished my paper route  I walked by the empty shops

The bakery was open. Chocolate chip cookie time

Then the art gallery windows. Taking in all the wonder that

Was placed so artfully on canvas. Different people, different styles

That must be my answer on why I love art

It taught me to never copy, but be original at all costs

And always do my best in all my endeavors.

Stanski

August 7, 2024, ^

I don’t want nobody

to give me nothing

just open up the door

I’ll get it myself

don’t need no help

you can call me Sonny

I like butter over oleo

some say how insensitive

don’t say thats bad

i’m not offeded at all

I’ll just sing two untitled blues

I’ll call it a sonnymoon for two

I may be a late up upshot

still I wish you love

and I always will

I take no offence

stanski

august 6, 2024, ^

PROGRESS

For too long we have been under

The spell of the progress delusion,

Which is the misguided belief that

Change and progress are the same.

All change is not progress. Progress

Is improving the well-being of human

Beings and brings about human

Flourishing. Not everyone has this

In mind when they propose progress.

Some desire personal achievement,

Political power, and economic gain

Rather than bringing about the most

Good for the most people. Greater life

Expectancy, reduced infant mortality,

Expanding food supply, safe water and

Access to education and healthcare

Are examples of progress. But abuse of

Workers, exploitation of poorer nations,

The atrocities of war, genocide, and

Environmental extortion have taken place

Under the banner of progress. The left

Supports and strives for this type of progress

While the right is the champion of the former.

No matter what you have unwittingly supported

In the past, what do you wish to be for now.

Stanski

August 5, 2024, ^

We are now on the left road

And have a good idea where

It is going to take us. We have

A decision soon to make which

Will leave us on that road to

Socialism, which has never worked,

Or change direction and return

To the path that God would want

Us to take. The left wants to blame

The right for the present conditions

And tell lies in their advertising to

Give affirmation to them and the

Policies they never endorsed, but now

Are heralding. They are promising

Utopia but those pulling the strings

Are set on socialism and power and

Eventually total power. The citizens

Will be in misery. They swallowed the

Bait and will pay the price. It is time to

Think of which road, right or left, that

You wish to take. Right is right and left

Is wrong and disastrous. Go right and

Praise the Divine One for your decision.

Stanski

August 4, 2024, ^

Without cheating, lying and

Making false claims, the left

Does not have much to go on.

What have been their accomplishments?

They opened the border and

Shut down drilling for gas and oil.

Caused joblessness and blaming

The previous administration. Now

Saying they are going to fix the

Border and promising that you will

Only have to work one job to make

Ends meet. They have let criminals

Out of prison and these illegals have

Murdered and raped women all over

The country. They are antisemitic and

Allow demonstrations for the Palestinians

And in the process watch our sacred

Monuments being destroyed.

I pray that those who support these

Accomplishments will do some critical

Thinking and realize that socialism is about

Power and will take away all of your rights.

You will have then no options but to fall

In line or be persecuted.

Stanski

August 3, 2024, ^