Sunday, December 14, 2025

The Marriage of Words & Music: (The Birth of Poetry) _ new poetry Dec2025

The Marriage of Words & Music: (The Birth of Poetry)

Music without words are called instrumentals. While words without music, is called poetry (though when composed may be to a melody of sorts, a rhythm, a beat, a tempo, frequency,but for the reader, they don't hear that music the author of the poem did). and then there is he who was a Minnesota North Star. He must've heard music in his head while composing poetry. and knowing that the audience when reading poetry doesn't hear music, blew their minds with guitar & harmonica. It actually became electric and the recordings had players like hitmen that learned to smoke grass at their Long Island & then Nashville country clubs. Those albums stir awakening. Dreams of The Marriage of Words and Music: the birth of Bob Dylan. The albums should have those 80's U.S. Vice President's Wife's parental labeling for 2025: Warning! These songs may make you woke. Sincerely, Woody Guthrie's emissary, Moss on a Rock in Running Water; Bubbles.
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Sunday afternoon December 14, 2025
John Alan Conte Jr. MyStrawHat.com

Mary Cries for Her Son Jesus: (Empathetic Agony) _ new poetry Dec2025

Mary Cries for Her Son Jesus: (Empathetic Agony)

Delivered to the judgement hall

Crowned with thorns taken to place of the skull

"Crucify him!" They violently shouted to Pilate

"I find no fault with this man," so why debate 

Are you woke?! "We have no king but Ceaser

And aren't you Ceaser's friend? Don't free him!

We want Barabus! Put this Jesus to his end!"

Jesus taught, acted, led by example of truth 

Pointing out blatant hypocrisy of those uncouth 

Raised the dead, broke bread, healed the blind

Saw all was fed, blessed the head, divinely kind

Speaking truth to power they needed him dead 

Given vinegar to drink, "it is finished," Jesus said 

Empathetic agony Mary had for her woke son 

People didn't care, in fact, they glad it was done 

For their bloodthirsty lust it was real good fun 

For their day it was free cable with reality tv 

Where cruelty is the point for the powers to be 

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John Alan Conte' Jr. MyStrawHat.com 

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Friday, December 12, 2025

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Make Argentina Great Instead _ new poetry December 2025

Make Argentina Great Instead 

I went down to the pool hall 

Looking for a friend that's all 

When they said go to the Beaver Valley Mall

It's not happening suddenly but it's still pain 

So I suited up with a sports cup for their game 

I guess as a Catholic school novice I was plain 

Black Sister Bertha loved me teaching guitar 

It served me well didn't end up in jail so far 

By that time history books = Nixon = crook 

Yeah laws allow vomit president to cook books 

I started dressing in Hugo Boss suits with looks 

When Giorgio Armani got lawyers what it took 

John F. Kennedy jr. Published George Magazine

For all good suckers searching for a big dream 

Donald Trump snake oil salesman from Queens 

"Close your eyes 16 pretend it's your big dream"Famed Sisamnes courts Putin tore limb for limbs 

Majorie Taylor Greene blue Jesus with cream 

But the hypocrites cried out you're not him 

And now Captain Kirk and his quirks are dead 

So it's an easy greasy touch your toes bend 

It's so easy for Fox "News" spoon fed heads 

 Sisamnes courts Make Argentina Great instead

December 12,2025 John Alan Conte' Jr.

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Make Argentina Great Instead 

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 Sisamnes courts Make Argentina Great instead

December 12,2025 John Alan Conte' Jr.

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“The Affordability” _ new poetry December 2025

"The Affordability"

Reporting inside a hoax
Listening to everyday folks
Then the spin of an orange
Who only wants more -
Artificial flavored juice
Says the farmer's cow.
And another thing?
Grand piano or dead cow
All along the Oregon Trail
"What's more valuable -
The baby grand or cow"
The farmer asks the bum
"Depends on price of beef to eat"
Brought to you by Lucky Strike


December 12, 2025 2:44 - 3:50am
John Alan Conte' Jr.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Zeno’s Last Call _ new poetry December 2025

Zeno's Last Call

I went down to a bar room 

It was underground at best 

Celebrating an A+ I got on the test 

It was an old school place named Zeno's

The valued majestic mascot was Bacchus 

It was a sanctimonious mess 

O.J. Simpson L.A. car chase on TV

Just ask the Satyr, Mr. Maître d'

Big Sur Sun Sutra with Ferlinghetti 

Darts, pool, reading all the graffiti 

The writing on the wall all & all 

Old photographs & those meant to be 

I still have these friends close to me 

Yeah King Richard said I was to marry 

Some punk freak called Sunday Scary 

But hey don't worry you'll lose soon 

But we didn't snorting his brain to the moon

Fatty got skinny 

Fatty got skinny 

Yet all of us felt the cost of the loss 

Kurtz in an Arts Fest tee with a push broom 

Hootie & the Blowfish dropped a beer glass

There's a big TV where they hung a cross 

Within a fishbowl skipping stones what a blast

Professor Trimball's Mass Media was the class 

I got an A+ on the final ordering drinks for all 

Knowing you want to take me home at last call 

December 10, 2025 3:32am

John Alan Conte' Jr.

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Monday, December 8, 2025

Carrots & Sticks; Sticks & Carrots _ new poetry December 2025

Carrots & Sticks; Sticks & Carrots 

The horse hated him.

Mostly everyone hated him.

He who believed in whipping.

Whipping into submission 

(He was too stupid for anything else)

He whipped his men, he whipped his women, he whipped his children, he whipped his dogs, he whipped his horses.

Unlike Judge Walter Conway who taught his men, taught his women, taught his children, taught hisdogs, taught his horses.

Judge Walter Conway gave his youngest daughter Elly-Mae a beautiful horse named River. Elly-Mae and River were inseparable until General Pmurt-Aissur (he who was mostly hated) bribed the Supreme Court majority to fire Judge Walter Conway and drive him into bankruptcy.

As General Pmurt-Aissur sat on top of his newly acquired horse on top of Pointers Ridge, River halted as a scrawny young Indian ran upon them with a bow & arrow = the young, scrawny Indian now known as "He Who Bow & Arrow Fat Pig Hated Whipper." And River & the Indian he lived happily ever after, amen. 

December 8, 2025 5am

John Alan Conte' Jr.

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Thursday, December 4, 2025

Now Ain’t That Love _ new poetry December 2025

Now Ain't That Love


my wife made me

walk from Knob Hill 

Hotel to Russian Hill 

to Ghirardelli Square 

But I didn't mind 

She had her wedding dress 

squarely on her mind 

So on the walk back 

we heard some old timey 

jazz that drew us in 

And had more wine.

Bodega Bay. Sonoma.

Kenwood. Jack London.

California wolf dogs.

Back to the city suite

Honeymoon. Swoon 


December 4, 2025 2:07am

John Alan Conte' Jr.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Lost My Shoes Blues _ new poetry December 2025

Lost My Shoes Blues 


Have you heard the news?

The president is a character 

Witness to Jean Paul Sarte's

Play "No Exit"

Black Box

Setting: Hell

A Con-man reality tv comic (talks too much)

A Hooker (looks so rough)

A Priest (acts so tough) 


Other things I lost my shoes for 

Walking form Chicago 

To Milwaukee; to Racine 

Boca Raton; Seattle; Dream 


Bioluminescence 

Italian Renaissance 

Last Temptation 

Last Judgement 


Be honest. Natural Beauty.


December 3, 2025 5:12am

John Alan Conte' Jr.

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Monday, December 1, 2025

Resume: John Conte Update December 2025 - 2026 _ NEW POETRY December 2025

NEW POETRY _ Resume: John Conte Update December 2025 - 2026

I have had so many blessings that I can't even think of anything negative like strife.

But I heard you shall remain sharp and ready.
I've been a solid steady track record.

From clients like The Coca-Cola World Headquarters to HallMark to Merck Pharmaceuticals to Bayer Corporation; Police Departments; Universities to the Mom & Pop trucking companies down the road; nursing homes and specialty doctors.

Active in the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh with directive from its president to champion Sub-Currents board; been on boards & committees to raise major dollars and help weave a tight communal tapestry.

Meets lofty shifting goal post goals; collaborates and works well with others always trying to elevate the status of peers by taking on more than my own interests.

Company guy always pitching in especially when a deficit .

Looking to be valued and not just liked.

Several high level and plain Jane references alike.

Need Help 2025 — 2026
John Alan Conte' Jr.
community liaison / everyday poet

The Childless Father of Washington D.C. (Violence Is Selective Abortion) _ new poetry December 2025




The Childless Father of Washington D.C. 

(Violence Is Selective Abortion)


She's a duck lips cynical cyclist 

standing five foot three inches tall

she dresses in tight black leather

with gloves & boots in case she falls

The circus keeps trying to recruit her

but she won't even return one call

Passing two calico cats that sit and purr 

she grabs the keys from the drawer

Outside in the back alley engines roar


On the other side of town a salesman reads

how there's 150 orphans who are so in need

In his home he fumbles the remote control tv

Gets off his knees, takes a rosary, forgets his keys

counting 1, 500 dollars taken from a shoe box

Doesn't need an uber lift with his shoes he walks

passing two Tibetan Terriers that bark on the block


Father Gallitzin in black with a white collar at the door

"Here, father, I wish that I could give so much more."

"It's okay, son, thank you for your inspirational gifts"

Then a dark leather figure of a duck lips woman rides by

The priest he looks up and places his hands in the sky

"My good son, please pray for her children when she dies"

As a garbage truck from the East Wing and the gang collide


December 1, 2025 12:42 am

John Alan Conte` Jr.

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