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Category: Frank’s Friday Focus

Frank Chloupek holds a PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University. We have been friends since our undergraduate days at Michigan State University over 30 years ago.

Frank hates poetry

(except for any and all Limericks about a certain boy from Nantucket).

He provides challenges, topics, themes, rules to guide whatever gets put together on Fridays.

it’s not my fault

It’s Friday, and I am not thinking

#FFFocus, limerick

When You Need a Little Nonsense

Doesn’t matter – I’m the writer; I can do whatever’s fun.

#FFFocus, breaking rules, conforming, nonsense

See and… Say What?

We keep ourselves safe and become more ignorant by the day.

#FFFocus, ignorance, risk aversion, risk tolerance, safety

gilt-deep compassion

Time to put some more of our “White Gilt” to work.

compassion, doing, outrage

“If” – A Grateful Nod to Seuss

If I ran the zoo (hey, you know what? I do!)

cancel culture, family, parenting, Racism, Seuss

out from the sun

travel with me.

#FFFocus, characteristics, gods, names, planets, solar system

Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh…No, Not Yet.

Just what would that look like, a day with no “no”s?

#FFFocus, choices, consequences, Freedom, responsibility, rules

not in on the joke

party guests – only excellent owls.

#FFFocus, exclusive, inclusion, Super Bowl, Superb Owl

groundhog day(s)

Each day lives inside all the days lived before

Waitin’ for Moby to Show

There’s some up top and some below, Just waitin’ for Moby to show (Huh!)

#FFFocus, Sea Shanty, TikTok, Wellerman, whaling

Benjifer Bones – #FFFocus

“Benjifer Bones” the old cat intones, “shall never be one of those usual drones”

#FFFocus, Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot, Transgender, Ze, Zir

The Porkchop Show – #FFFocus

Hankering hard for Alisa’s fine porkchops, Victoria Parker’d her Tempest DuJour on the Via de Coco Shangela. Coiffed like theQuarrelsome … More

#porkchopoftheshow, #rupaul

The greatest ownership is embracement of emptiness.

quantum physics says there is no such thing as emptiness. own. embrace. that.

#FFFocus

elision 202021

some will fall forward

#haiku, change, new year, same
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