Overheard in an Airport Security Line

 "And I'm, like, look! Oh, gross!"

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"Believe it. Reincarnation is real."
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"Her boss says she needs to learn
more aout what she's selling so she
can sell more of what she's trying
to sell."
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"When we get to Tijuana, we should
rent a Mazerati."
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"I'm not sure why I travel anymore."

Hans Ostrom 2024

Do all men do this | mash report#4 | Sip Comedy

Sanjeev Bhaskar reads Spike Milligan's hilarious letter home during WWII

Impromptu - Cynthia Erivo sings Aretha Franklin on Graham Norton Show.

Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter from Kurt Vonnegut

RARE Footage of GOP Candidate INSTANTLY DESTROYS Her Entire Defense

Primary Colors

In golden light yellow

hay made me sneeze,
wheeze.

I don't see many women
nor even men nor trans
wearing red lipstick anymore.

The 1950s kissed
with thick crimson lipstick, kicked
like a mean horse full
of bad yellow hay gas.

When an alpine lake,
I say brothers and sisters,
if an alpine lake
turns truly blue,
you must pause in awe
your fishing or kayaking,
your known rowing.

As the fog began to thin,
the sun looked like a flat,
cool yellow disc.

Bombs, bullets, missiles,
rockets, shrapnel, make
bloody death, dead bloody
children, babies, their mothers,
fathers, lying in blood
because Power does not
want in its red fury, its
ruinous hatred, to share.

Hans Ostrom 2023

"Winter Moon," by Langston Hughes

from "New Year Letter," by W.H. Auden

The New Pope 1x09 - John Paul III Speech

The New Pope: How Are We To Love (Season 1 Episode 3 Clip) | HBO

MC Lyte, Monie Love, and D-Nice perform "Ladies First" for Queen Latifah...

A Moment in a City

A seagull in silhouette--

it glides across sky's last light.
Unsheltered, a woman stirs
beneath blankets in a shop's
entryway. Uncovered,
her face is leathered and red.
Cars roll by, roll on.
The sound of their engines underlies
all we hear on the sidewalk.

We're among the living today,
the ones cast in this play,
humanity, but local to this moment's
scene. The shapes of moments
shift constantly. None of us passing
helps the woman. Should I go back
and give her money at least?
The shadow of the seagull is long gone.

hans ostrom 2023