…especially with both the government and the news media putting out mixed messages at every turn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro (1 March 2020)
Category: US
Published! (vedfest link)
My poem ‘vedfest’ has been published by The CDC Poetry Project. You can read it at: https://cdcpoetry.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/vedfest-kevin-j-oconner/ Submission guidelines: https://cdcpoetry.wordpress.com/submission-guidelines/ (14 January 2018)
My take on #blacklivesmatter
As I am a middle-aged white guy, you may choose to take this with the proverbial grain of salt—but I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and wanted to add my perspective. So… Another day, another ALL lives matter! meme on social media. Often, this comes from the ‘conservative’ part of the political spectrum; sometimes, [...]
Election Day Redux: State of the Union
Re-posting this poem from April 2013 (but with the edits I later made for Journalism) for Election Day. The original post can be found here. With rodomontade nonpareil, the esteemed Senator Dunderhead clove to the bilious position he'd espoused during a particularly ego-fuelled rant in the aftermath of the latest crisis. That the elusive logic of his twice-baked [...]
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #20 (April 20, 2013)
Today's prompt: write a poem using at least five of the following words: owl generator abscond upwind squander clove miraculous dunderhead cyclops willowy mercurial seaweed gutter non-pareil artillery salt curl ego rodomontade elusive twice ghost cheese cowbird truffle svelte quahog bilious Thanks to comments recently made by one of our more (ahem!) colorful…elected officials, this was [...]
Ordinary Average Thoughts 