Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley

The Poet Laureate of the New York Times Newsroom

Thursday, June 30, 2022

U.S. newspapers continuing to die at rate of 2 each week (AP)

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  U.S. newspapers continuing to die at rate of 2 each week   (AP)   I don't know how much truth resides when newspapers set up as guide...

Today's Timericks: Supreme Court Limits Power of EPA, Other Regulatory Agencies

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  If you've got a bone to pick with the EPA, be quick! Agencies like them will soon be as sterile as the Moon. With the High Court set t...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Narrative Poem: No Reply.

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  I saw a small boy with red hair in a white shirt at church. Rather, I saw the back of his head. I never saw his face.  But that red hair w...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Narrative Poem: The Wrong Wife.

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    "You're doing it all wrong" my wife said. "So you say" I replied shortly. "You'll break the whole thing...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Today's Timericks: Senate passes most significant gun control legislation in decades

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  the senate moves at lightning speed to meet our nation's ev'ry need. at long long last out of the mire -- they passed a bill about...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Fed’s Jerome Powell to Head to the House With Interest Rates in Focus Central-bank chief has signaled a new 0.75-percentage-point rise is possible in July to fight inflation

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  I do not get these interest rates; they're high because inflation threatens to engulf us as a people and a nation? Excuse my economics...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Bugs in Thailand. A Personal Memoir.

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  You’ve all heard about our bug situation here in Provo, so i won’t belabor that dismal situation any further except to say that the provo ...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Thou art the man.

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  There have been melancholy days when in the mirror I had to gaze with my wounded heart ablaze -- and say "Thou art the man." Whe...

A Missionary in Thailand

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  Church attendance was rather sparse this Sunday morning here in Provo. I guess nobody heard about the Nestle Crunch Bar all the fathers wo...

A Free Father's Day Meal in Provo, Utah.

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  Help us celebrate Father's Day today at NOON with a special Father's Day Pasta Salad, served up for free on a bed of fresh crisp i...
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I am convinced that if God meant man to laugh, he would have made more Democrats.
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