CONTEMPORARY CALAMITIES

CONTEMPORARY CALAMITIES

8/19/2026 2PM

In honor of Frank Beard

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Rabbit holes and gravity wells.

Gravity wells,

Rabbit holes,

My AI thinks I'm crazy

I confuse the two.

One-IT claims can't exist

The other...

IT says I should desist.

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Reality calls and beckons,

but these are the same people telling me

There is another plane of existence...

at the end of this rainbow.

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Persistence...

is the key.

Stick to the narrow path,

don't wander off lest a werewolf rears its head

Or you find yourself in Leaves of Grass

Looking up at an unrecognizable star

Wondering where we are.

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That is where I have been

I've not written a few days...

Then the insanity leaves me

and I'm back.

Did you miss me?

No?

That's fine,

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but just for grins

no puns, no sins

What if I told you I had slipped down a rabbit hole?

That turned out to be a gravity well...

Seriously!

Fine, I said no puns,

but the world I was in

I could barely fit in..

luckily there I was not the same.

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Different rules, different dimension,

where Batman was at his Absolute Darkest!

And Superman barely past teens,

Sad and lonely,

Both looking for their legacy...

fixing a world even harder than we can see.

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Wonder Woman raises Hell

but she was raised there...

All three still righteous in spite of

Still knowing right from wrong.

An Absolute world of no Absolute rules...

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the Green Lantern is a girl while her pal,

Hal, is still a man...with issues,

like us.

And just as I begin to unravel that little mystery,

of their state of being and becoming..

another enigma breaks in...

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Green Arrow...

I thought he was dead

or so we are told..it's implied,

inferred, if you will.

But a vicious hard core no mercy kind,

no rules of engagement, no quarter..

Only death handed out like cheap flyers at a state fair.

Intense..

Immense, and it has me in a grip.

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And so I..a diary pen

So that when I have more time,

I'll apprise you of them.

I've missed you friends..

So I say once more and again..

It's good to see you.

Godspeed, Frank