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Sunday, December 14, 2025
The Marriage of Words & Music: (The Birth of Poetry) _ new poetry Dec2025
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.
#sunday #art #poetry
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
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.
MyStrawHat.com
Make Argentina Great Instead
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Sisamnes courts Make Argentina Great instead
December 12,2025 John Alan Conte' Jr.
MyStrawHat.com
“The Affordability” _ new poetry December 2025
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.
MyStrawHat.com
#affordability #painting #poetry #art
Good wishes,
John
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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.
MyStrawHat.com
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.
MyStrawHat.com
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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.
MyStrawHat.com
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Monday, December 1, 2025
Resume: John Conte Update December 2025 - 2026 _ NEW POETRY December 2025
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.