"Does Art Reflect Reality or Reality Effect Art?" And for that to be truthfully answered you have to have clean clear Classic Jesus of the New Testament morality & ethical forgiving love & firm grasp on truth as reality (not agenda driven) but free
Midpeesteinegie Elephants of Elephant 🐘 Island #new #poetry #experience #art
January 24, 2026 3:07am
MyStrawHat.com Southwestern, Pennsylvania
Candy TV
When I was young
Everything was Candy and TV
Church, school and family
Music was everywhere
So was smoke
It got inside of you
Drinking 7up & Mountain Dew
Bowling alleys and pool halls
Ice skating rinks and basketball
Magazines, airplanes, Holiday Inns
My dad could walk to his law firm
Grandma could walk to her paisano
Mom planting bulbs for spring, summer, fall
Lassie, the Little Rascals, The Lone Ranger
The goodness within people on full display
Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons,
Leave It to Beaver, Andy Griffith, Grizzly Adams
It all made you want to be a better person
MyStrawHat.com January 22, 2026
John Alan Conte' Jr.
MyStrawHat.com January 22, 2026
John Alan Conte' Jr.
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Ain't Life Swell
The tracks have snow on them
But the wheels still glide
Hop on a freight and take a ride
It don't cost nothin'
But if you fall you might die
It's warm inside
Box-car Captain Freddy
He got himself a fire
That he'll share with you
If he like the first few -
Sentences you speak of a story
If he doesn't like A to B to D
He may say A to D to B to D
Or just say, "time you get off"
With a fur-ball cough in the key of C
Snow outlines branches of trees
Frozen strata painted by Da Vinci
The hillside whispers comes softly
It's all coming back into view slowly
While you calculate a jumping off point
With good Filson boots hitting another joint
Oh, gee, you see, ain't life so swell
6:44 a.m. John Alan Conte' Jr.
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Water Pillow on a Bed of Nails (or white flowers)
Water pillow of water pillows
on a bed of nails (laugh)
is our gift to you / (US) A,
But, when W.H. Chief Deputy is questioned
the water really really flows as he cries,
"Daddy!!" And the W.H. Chief of Staff
breaks from the Ballroom's pinball machine
retorting with a snort of Diet Coke, "those
aren't nails! They're white daisy chains."
The W.H. Press Secretary when pressed, farts,
and covers it up with a cover up undercover
Asking how she could fart from her mouth?!
especially while wearing a plastic crucifix -
Given to her by the Attorney General & Deputy
Both agreeing the plastic will protect her mouth
better than bulletproof BMW SUVs for FBI/CIA
Yet the B.B.C. hasn't given up and calmly says,
"You've purposely flooded your own streets."
Coincidentally the bedsheets are soaking wet.
Google, "how to cover up a water pillow?"
(Now completed reading Bob Dylan's Tarantula)
Don't forget your brown wing tip shoes at the beach! Too bad they got drenched anyway.
#experimental #poetry #art MyStrawHat.com
December 25, 2025 J. Conte' Jr.
This poem has been dedicated to Bob Dylan's Tarantula + his harmonica which Kierkegaard would say resembles steam-engine calliope when servicing the circus. #experimental #poetry #art MyStrawHat.com
December 25, 2025 J. Conte' Jr.
Polka Dot Flirt
It was more of a skort than skirt
Nevertheless allowed her to flirt
With her perfectly quaffed hair
Something sultry longing in her stare
No 1940's Private Dick could resist
For the patriots who did enlist
Defeating Hitler's Nazi Germany
Please don't take it so personally
She was lonely and opened the door
Now your best girl is a wholly adored
A walking Holiday script so captivating
She could halt any thug from invading
With an unassuming quick up & down
In a sexy whisper, "casino president is a clown.
Private Dick guess what I spy with my eye?
Ok, I'll tell. Because of me he's so compromised"
The art of polka dot flirt is in black & white
A master piece in silver screen chemistry
"Geiger's body and a drugged Carmen
Hidden camera minus its film," said Vivian.
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
The Big Sleep is not a dozer at all
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Winter Solstice December 21, 2025
John Alan Conte' Jr. MyStrawHat.com
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Polka Dot Flirt
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Winter Solstice December 21, 2025
John Alan Conte' Jr. MyStrawHat.com
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Day at the Beach
With his head in the sand
Beside the popular hot dog stand
Bum-up excreting dogs by the hour
In front of the outdoor public shower
22 men on grass plus one woman
Had muscles and grass in common
Grinding meat, muscle, bone and fat
Nearby the Venice poet painted with a hat
A typical day at the beach.
Brown winged tipped shoes? Real freak
Staying away from the littlest waves
He asks his advisors about his mess
"This is not a test. This is not a test"
Read the airplanes message banner above
While a King Cobra eyes God's peace dove
#new #experimental #art #poetry
December 20 - 21st, 2025
John Alan Conte' Jr. MyStrawHat.com
triptych #experimental #poetry #art
the "3:33 am series" where for the past 3 nights at 3:33 am working on 3 different original poems inspired by vividly energetic dreams that woke where has to write and associate masterpiece art work
December 16 - 19, 2025
*Thursday night was basically an all night suddenly early Friday morning and very difficult knowing it was the 3rd and final piece I may have drank 3 bottles of red wine lol just kidding well MyStrawHat.com "3:33 am series"
Forever Fools
Recording time
Antiquity
The alchemist found it
almost liquid
Fluid like space
With rich antiquities.
matter
physics… properties
Elements Skate Boards
Laws and energy. Hark. Mark.
Light 💡 over darkness
Although darkness never stops
Trying. An alcoholic crying Vodka. Blah.
Lying Vegas Fentanyl Pawn Shops
Russian oligarchs (cucks)
Brainwashed right? (sucks)
down to giving up
selling their souls for what? money
No, dah? Dah?, Nah? MCDONALD ok?
Before Christ B.C. Honey 🍯 comb 🪮
Secret 🤫 tomb spells fornicate
with gods
Who were always really
Really own your own demons
#art #experimental #poetry
December 15, 2025 early am
John Alan Conte' Jr. MyStrawHat.com
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