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    The Muse and Whirled Retort December 2024

    The Muse and Whirled Retort
    Happy Holidays

    Hey Everybody,

    Sorry, my December Newsletter is a little late this year. So much has gone on in the world since last we spoke - which was just before the election. But it is the holidays...So, before we get to that let me first say, “Merry Christmas”

    Many of you have heard and even made my Christmas story a part of your Christmas every year for several year’s now. So I come bearing gifts this Christmas.

    Please make “Three Kings of Memphis” with John Elliott a part of your holiday tradition. It is a modern retelling of The Magi set in the United States,

    and is an absolute true story

    complete with a minor real life miracle.

    Download it for free - or pay what you like on Band Camp.

    Another one over the years that has become a holiday tradition
    is “Winter Song/ Girl from the North Country”
    from Paul and my’s Matadors Album.
    Please Enjoy!

    But wait, there’s more!!!
    Here is last year’s little Christmas missive with Kristen Dewitt.
    I am proud of it.
    “The Little Drummer Boy.”

    Finally, I am going to be doing a special Holiday set with my friend Joann Ruth Blair
    in Houston
    at Anderson Faire on December 20 at 6:30 PM

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    Paul Benoit and I are working on a new album.
    We have just started working on it but I will be giving you info on how that is coming along.
    It will be largely the material we worked out on our tour this summer.

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    If you would like to support me or this newsletter -
    I could surely use it!
    You can do so via Patreon, Venmo, or PayPal

    And finally
    (this seems like a good way to transition her)
    I have started a new weekly Poetry shorts series
    on You Tube.
    I have done four of them so far
    and a new one coming this week.
    Here is the second in the series and it is this weeks Muse and Whirled Retort. If you like please like and subscribe. I have a 960 subscribers and I only need 1000 and I can monetize my little channel. Thank you so much for your support. I couldn’t do it with out you!

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    ENOUGH! ENOUGH of the Crass Commercial Announcements! Here is your:

    Muse and Whirled Retort

    Austin, TX

    December 10, 2024

    Upon the Election of DJT

    By Chris Chandler

    I feel everything
    and nothing simultaneously.
    ~
    Pity and anger flow from the same spigot.
    It is a fire hose of emotions,
    pointed away from the flames
    because,
    I just want to roast marshmallows on this dumpster fire.
    ~
    I feel nothing
    and everything simultaneously.
    ~
    I love you,
    but how can I?
    When numbness enshrines this broken kaleidoscope
    aimed at the heavens,
    masking the stars.
    ~
    I hate you,
    but fear not for I hate everybody,
    which is kinda like hating no one at all.
    ~
    I would love to say, “I hate no one,”
    but I can’t.
    Only because I love so much
    I no longer recognize my own emotions.
    ~
    I am so numb,
    I can’t even feel my own hatred.
    I can’t feel the compassion, the sorrow, the empathy,
    the joy.
    ~
    Perhaps I have simply lost my trust in human beings.
    ~
    And dang, I love human beings.
    Or at least I did.
    ~
    I will miss you.
    ~
    That loss is something one can never get back.
    ~
    Perhaps it is that I have lost my faith.
    ~
    It is broken.
    ~
    Shattered.
    It has had a great fall
    and all the kings horses
    and all the kings men
    should just have their heads placed in a guillotine
    once and for all.
    ~
    Perhaps,
    it is the betrayal of a stranger
    or maybe the devotion of an enemy
    that has publicly gone on the down-low
    to give handjobs
    to inanimate objects.
    ~
    The flowers are rusting
    and the robots are taking target practice.
    ~
    No one will ever forgive me for giving a damn.
    ~
    How can the world be upside down
    when the infinite knows
    no direction at all.
    ~
    No up.
    No downside.
    ~
    But somehow it is just that:
    Upside down.
    ~
    Our compass drifts aimlessly.
    ~
    The North Star is anonymous in this lonely galaxy.
    ~
    Even the excellence in this world,
    excellence which cannot be denied,
    can not out run its own
    stupidity.
    ~
    And I do not know how to feel about that.