"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.
#poetry #art #tv #music #exploremore
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.
MyStrawHat.com #Conway #Pennsylvania
#explore #art #music #poetry
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