Pulp Diction
Robert Hazelton
Not Quite Right
Bob Church
Whisper Gap
Jo Janoski
From The Attic
T. Owen Stark
Cheshire Cat
Chronicles
Rusty Arquette
Songs of
the Soul
Harry Furness
Life In The
Slow Lane
Shirley Allard

Vol.1, No.5 • November 2007

 

Nothin' Better To Do
A monthly column of verse, musings and observations
by Billy Jones.

 

How Does One Know?

Some of my readers here are aware of my colorful past riding as a member of a motorcycle gang in my youth and still others are aware that on next Tuesday, November 6 2007 voters in Greensboro, North Carolina will have the chance to elect me to become their next mayor.

I think the odds that I might win are slim but apparently some in my opponents' camps are becoming concerned as they have started applying pressure on persons with whom I do business and others who call themselves my friends.

Funny thing, back in my motorcycle gang days there was a code of honor that sadly today's politricksters could never live up to. I'm not implying the gang was in church every Sunday or anything like that but in the world of bikers there is no honor in stabbing one's opponent in the back. And the idea that innocent bystanders might be targets was never condoned in the Biker world. We were wild and rowdy but to provoke an incident against a "citizen" was something that was never allowed and only happened in the movies.

Give me the choice of shaking the hand of the most low-life 1%er Biker in the world and a politician and I'll pick the better man-- the biker-- every time.

Define Victory...

Is it the death of an opponent,
the mounting of the summit
escaping from the crushing weight
of the boulders falling from it?

Is it leading men to battle
to lead them back again
or living to remember
every loss you had back then?

Billy Jones is a poet, author and aspiring entrepreneur who writes BloggingPoet.com and is a managing partner of Policlicks.com LLC. the parent company of MuseCrafters.