Tag Archive: Kevin Ridgeway

Mar 17

Chet Baker’s Embouchure by Kevin Ridgeway

CHET BAKER’S EMBOUCHURE No longer able to hit notes without a set of natural teeth— but he kept at it, didn’t let it silence the golden sound within him, and, in spite of his demons, he learned how to play again. Music elevated him above a self-imposed gutter, who left wrinkled valleys across his dented …

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Mar 05

Poem for Robert Kennedy, Jr. AND Without Us by Kevin Ridgeway

Poem for Robert Kennedy, Jr. When I am (finally) declared King of the World, I will send all billionaires to health farms for their “personal failures” where they will work for zero wages until they learn the true meaning of human empathy and what it’s like to have real problems outside of an ambition that …

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