The Forest Service says it's closing offices to cut costs. But the math doesn't add up.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/06/nx-s1-5831470/forest-service-cuts

Demo previous post 5/29/25

Two old lovers with their heads in the sand

Each one wishing the other'd understand.

Two old lovers in the same old scene

Fight over spilled milk and throw away the cream.

Two old lovers oh darling can't you see

Those two old lovers might be you and me.

Two old lovers on a worn out bed

Their hearts are empty now it's all in the head.

Two old lovers hesitant to speak

Their passions are strong but their patience is weak.

Two old lovers oh darling can't you see

Those two old lovers, well it's you and me.

Two young lovers we were fire and ice

Meeting in the middle used to be so nice.

There's got to be some new kind of magic

An emotion I hope we can find.

Or otherwise, honey, we're just

Two old lovers in a bind.

Two old lovers staring eye to eye

Don't want to blink sure don't want to cry.

Two old lovers oh darling can't you see

Those two old lovers well it's you and me.

Two young lovers oh we were fire and ice

Meeting in the middle used to be so nice.

There's got to be some new kind of magic

In a future I hope we can find

Or otherwise, honey, we're just

Two old lovers

In a bind.

Malcolm McKinney 1983/2023

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I Will Lie With You By The River

I will lie with you by the river

By the willow and the soft sweet grass

I will lie with you beneath the starlight

And the night to day will pass

In my dream you're by the doorway

I can see your trembling hand

On the floor lies a letter

From a far and foreign land

I will lie with you by the river

By the willow and the soft sweet grass

I will lie with you beneath the starlight

And the night to day will pass

In my dream I'm in a valley

And the stars burst fearful bright

And a red pool seeps beneath me

And I fall into the night

I will lie with you by the river

By the willow and the soft sweet grass

I will lie with you beneath the starlight

And the night to day will pass

I will love you now forever

I will always hold you dear

Every breeze that cools your body

Will whisper "I am near."

I will meet you by the river

When you are leave to come

I will lie with you forever

As the earth and grass are one.

I will lie with you by the river

By the willow and the soft sweet grass

I will lie with you beneath the starlight

And the days to years will pass.

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Straight and True

I'm so tired, I need a place

To lay my head.

I'm so tired, I need somewhere

To rest my head.

Can you find me a pillow

And some blankets for a bed.

Bring me a bottle, mamma.

I sure could use a taste.

Bring me a little whiskey

I'm just dying for a taste.

Cause it hurts so bad,

And I might not have time to waste.

The sheriff and the government men

They tried to track me down

The sheriff and the government men

They almost ran me down.

I thought I was a lucky man

But now I'm on my bleeding ground.

All my life. every day

I have paid the price that I had to pay.

Now my final debt is coming due

Simple as that straight and true.

Mother, mother

Would you hold my cold cold hand.

Mother, mother, mother

Could you warm my cold cold hand.

All I want right now

Is to kiss your face again.

Would you pen a window,

I could use some air to breathe.

Is that window open now

It's getting so hard to bresthe.

The dark is closing in

And I'd like a little light for me.

Ch

All my life. Every day

I have paid the price that I had to pay.

Now my final debt is coming due

Simple as that. straight and true.

Malcolm McKinney 2026

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Demo last posted 5/7/25

Take my hand

Take my breath away

Here is my heart

Forever and a day

Take this love

And hear these solumn words

That I pray.

Take my hand

Take my breath away.

In this life

There is always pain

Though you heal

It may come back again

I want heaven above

And the deepest blue sea

I want it all

Would you come with me.

Take my hand

Take my breath away....

I see my future

As you beckon me

Whisper my name

I hear a rhapsody

Your deep eyes, the blue

I just can't ignore

You are the want

I've been waiting for.

Take my hand

Take my breath away

Here is my heart

Forever and a day

Take this love

And hear these solumn words

That I pray

Take my hand

Take my breath away

Malcolm McKinney 2023

I heard Taylor Swift on Tiny Desk NPR

"take my hand scars and all."

So I wrote this lyric.

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Company Town

Most living creatures have tails.

They provide balance when the creature moves.

Humans have only small vestigial tails.

Our history provides our balance when we move.

This song was inspired by a column written by Bill Moyers in 2008.

The Citizen United decision was in 2010.

Gazing downward past the reflecting pool

Lincoln's statue cannot speak.

Cause they are muting the tongues of the true heartland

That defend the downtrodden and the weak.

It's no longer Lincoln's city

Cause they're tearing his work down

Yes the lobbies and their lawyers

Have made DC a company town.

And it's the blood and the sweat of the working class

That fertilize the gardens of the rich.

The government of, by, and for us all

Is being buried by the bait and the switch.

They exploit the hungry and the hopeless ones

And they hold down the minimum wage.

They flaunt the flag, the gavei, and the golden calf

As they celebrate the end of an age.

Now it's time to take some action

Time to tear those lobbies down

To restore DC to the people

So it's no longer a company town.

Malcolm McKinney 2008

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Dancing All Night Long

Last post 8/9/24.

Late one night she came to me

Singing songs of love

Dancing in a dream

All that night we sang along

Streaming in the night

Dreams of milk and cre

Oh dancing all night long

Oh dancing all night long

Little moon wheel and turn

Dance while the night still burns

Dancing all night long

When I go out at night and look

High above the trees

I see you in the sky

Shining on a darkened earth

Sing to me of love

Shining in the sky

Malcolm McKinney 1975

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Hold On to Your Dreams

D last post 5/21/25

Once in a while you just gotta smile

At your best laid plans and fate

Some going south some go insane

Somethings gotta fill your plate.

Better hold on to your dreams

Nothing ain't what it seems

Gotta be a cooker to clean that pot

You want to hold on to what you got.

Joe ain't got a bite to eat

But he don't have to eat to bite

If you've got spare you've got enough to share

And everything comes out right.

Infinite light, infinite space

Tickets now selling for the human race

Dance with a bigot, dance with a bear

Nothing ain't round, nothing ain't square.

Malcolm McKinney 2024

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Faure : Pavane

Opus 50 choral version

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Seiji Ozawa

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My take on an English translation of the original lyrics derived from a 1672? French comedy in five acts.

Basically Ed loves Mary but Mary loves Tom

So Ed writes letters purportedly from Tom to Patricia declaring his love for her.

Ed later suffers horrors of regret, goes mad, and runs away.

Later still. Ed regains sanity, returns to town, apologizes to Tom and Mary, who are now wed.

Then Ed marries Tom’s sister.

D Last post 4/30/25

The Great Divide

Look way off in the distance

Past the mountains ranging high

That’s how far apart we are

Across the Great Divide.

Theres a silence in the cabin now

Theres a cold and unmade bed

No one lying on my shoulder

As a pillow for her head.

No train can make that climb

No plane can fly

To bring my baby back to me

From far across the Great Divide.

My baby's no longer with me

I'm so low and all alone

No more love and laughter

No more happy home.

I have never felt such pain

As I’m feeling now

Yes, I know I’ll get through all this

But I just don’t know how.

No train can make that climb

No plane can fly

To bring my baby back to me

From far across the Great Divide.

Malcolm McKinney 2007

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Elizabeth and the Riverman

D Last posted 3/20/25

Heard about the suicide?

Heard about the death?

The girl they found at Rivers End

Was named Elizabeth.

They found her body in the bay

Pale as the ghost.

That wanders in the marshes now

Calling the name she loved most.

She met her love at Rivers End

Smiling at his mouth.

He was just a Riverman

Coming up from the South.

She looked into his sea blue eyes

And laughed at what she knew.

That twinkle in the sea blue

Asking her own, were they true.

But then the summer hastened on

The sun began to tell.

That river cracked and disappeared

That Riverman as well.

They found her body in the bay

Pale as the ghost.

That wanders in the marshes now

Calling the name she loved most.

Riverman....

Malcolm McKinney 1974

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What is the name of the Soviet naval commander who turned his ship around at height of Cuban missile crisis?

Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov (Russian: Василий Александрович Архипов; 30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998), also transliterated as Vasili Arkhipov, was a vice admiral in the Soviet Navy. He is best remembered for preventing nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

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Honey You're a Keeper

D last posted 4/2/25

Honey, you're a keeper

You clean up so well

You sing out so clearly

Like an old dinner bell.

I'm a slow walking drifter

But I'll sit a spell

And spin you a yarn

I've a story to tell.

Life can be lonely

Life can be spare

Living without

A love you can share.

I've had my chances

But they slipped away

So I took to the road

I'm traveling today

I'm just a bummer

Peddling wares

In the center of towns

I gather stares.

Then I set out to charm them

Like a showman at fairs

Who plays the accordian

For his dancing bears

Now, I notice you're single

I'll advance you a guess

You were once married

Maybe not to the best.

So you stand on your pride

And look what you've got.

A shed for your chickens

And a cast iron pot.

Life can be lonely

Life can be spare

Living without

A love you can share.

Its fifteen long miles

On the road back to town.

If I can get you to smile

I might stick around.

Malcolm McKinney 2025

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