Lazarus Merlinus• Show poetry

My style of writing is really very ecclectic and a little disjointed, as you will see. So is my choice of subject matter, as my tastes are pretty varied. I am a Wiccan high priest with a rather small coven, and work to support my admittedly hedonistic life, rather than my life supporting my job. For those of you just insatiably curious, the pic is from the cartoon strip Red Meat: from the secret files of Max Cannon. I don't own it, just like it.

-- The Ties That Bind --

since we are proud of each other (inordinately) and she did get me into this, (thanks, Stanley!) here is the URL for my mother. No, I mean it, MY REAL MOTHER. Love ya, Toots! allpoetry.com/poets/Toni%20A%20Christman

and now, picky thing that I am, I am acknowleging that I have an AP family member: my much beloved and madly talented Scots Auntie, the delightful Mairi Bheag. Read her stuff and discover just why we love her so! (She's the only person I have ever seen who can consistently roll out perfect, readable, fun sonnets. . .and the rest of her stuff is great, too!)allpoetry.com/poets/Mairi%20bheag

And here we have my insane uncle, who is, nonetheless intensely readable, and also everyones' favorite uncle: allpoetry.com/poets/Unca%20Goat and the waltzing Matilda who made an honest (!) man of him, Calamity Jane to his Wild Bill, the fabulous and beloved Recluse Writer, my Aussie Auntie!allpoetry.com/poets/Recluse%20Writer

Good Lord, how the fambily grows, once you admit you own such a beast! Here is my beautiful, talented, and charming sister (and I'm glad to have her!), TwistedDesires: allpoetry.com/Poets/TwistedDesires

of course, no Addams family in the south would be complete without a morbid, humorous, literate and philosophical trucker (!), and here he is: allpoetry.com/poets/GunRunner

HEY! CHECK IT OUT! I have a brand new, beautiful, darkly and exquisitely talented little sister! Her name is Lost Like Woah, but now that I've found her . . .LOL. . .seriously, very good writer, GO LOOK!!allpoetry.com/poets/Lost%20Like%20Woah

AND NOW A BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT: we are blessed with a beautiful, bouncy, uh, bouncing baby girl, named forgotten garden! http://allpoetry.com/Forgotten%20Garden
I've got a secret I've been hiding, under my skin. . . and she'll get under yours, too, if you give her a chance: my sister, Hetha! http://allpoetry.com/Hetha
-- Notable Quoteables --

"It's just as easy to be nice as it is to be nasty, and it's generally a lot more fun." Death, as written by Neil Gaiman

"I seem to haff made a slight tactical error." Nicky Cagliostro, moments prior to a particularly nasty demise

" Those tall, dark things that loomed and threatened never did anything else but that: loom and Threaten. The things that have really bothered me and made me miss my train were all quite pale, beautiful things, of which I was not in the least bit afraid."
Elbert ( not L. Ron!) Hubbard.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
the blessed Oscar Wilde, patron saint of queens

"Every man and every woman is a star."
Aleister Crowley

Smurfys' Law: It doesn't matter how cute you are, there's still only one Smurfette, and she's not interested.
me, in a moment of temporary insanity

"At some point, every normal, red-blooded, healthy man has the irresistable urge to roll up his sleeves, spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
H. L. Mencken

"In the Bible, it says,"For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son. . ." I would go farther and say that God so loved us that God would speak to each of us in the voice we understand best, if we will only listen."
Me again, in preacher mode