Friday, August 28, 2026

The Good Kings

 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57355939-the-good-kings" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1617657513l/57355939._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57355939-the-good-kings">The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7566267.Kara_Cooney">Kara Cooney</a><br/>

My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8898802188">4 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />

I don't know why it took me nearly a year to read this book, especially whenever I picked it up, I didn't want to put it down, yet it did.<br />Admittedly this book is not as good as "When Women Ruled the World" but that is like saying, The Two Towers isn't as good as The Fellowship of The Ring.<br />The book is a great academic look at some of Egypt's male pharos and comparing them to the world we are in today. It stresses that everything we do is a cycle that what has been done, will be dome again. <br />It is marvelous. 

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Friday, July 24, 2026

the flasher

I'm laying here
Wish I could hear voice 
To drown out
The what ifs of the future

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

hope

I got a call tonight, i have an interview 
I want to scream out of joy,
At you
...with you
But I don't have your number 
Just the memories of your souffle 
And awkwardly fallen crumbs
If I were twenty years younger
You would be everything 
That I would have wanted
Now I am old
Dead
Abd have no one to yell in joy with