Lift Myself Out
It’s interesting, that if you spend any amount of time telling people that you can’t do something because you don’t want to do something, you soon convince yourself of that idea as much as the other person is convinced. It is a…
Month: October 2018
A Breakage Parable
He’d left it out for a long time and it had soured. He hadn’t taken the best care of it since it had been given to him, and on some level that was because he didn’t know what it was. He had…
dry crackle
spoken lines broken lines token lines and how we fail to see the difference the machinery behind masks subvocal mutterings the spin a double sided buttered toast flings we spin we spin we flip the wing these words i learned the birds…
Getting Visuals
I have been operating in the visual field for most of the week. A rare time when the images for book covers and website designs have been coming easier to me than words. You take it where you can get it. It…
the unfunny
those jokers who are not funny who are never on the money who never land a punchline but like to keep pushing forward until people sicken until they feel broken who is laughing? who applauds? isn’t the whole thing flawed because sometimes…
Time’s Up
He threw his fob-watch in the fountain, and walked away as it sparked and sent arcs of electric over the edge. He hadn’t noticed the kid until he tumbled forward through seventy years and collapsed out soaking onto the platform in front…
Your Platform
I don’t feel despair much any more. In fact hardly ever. The whole apparent disintegration of the world and the frame that politics puts around that picture, is just so much sparring verbiage, that is generated by people who have no integrity.…