shadow boxed
i am fat on the held back fuck yous a spider made of shadows of sentiments they flower in my writing i’ve been less than forthcoming and the heartbeat that’s drumming is an echo of the first promising i’ll burst how do…
Tag: writing
Rolling
Sometimes getting in gear on the weekend – which represents the largest swathe of time that I have to write, can be somewhat problematic. Weekends are also the point in the week when it is easiest for me to do things like…
Nancy And Elizabeth
I have to say that the news that Elizabeth Warren is running for the Presidency in 2020 gives me some hope. What I have read of her and the things she has done to curb the influence of Wall Street impressed me,…
52
I structure most of my longform pieces around the idea that they will take me 52 weeks to complete them. The novels – which are short novels – with a 1000 words to each week would be a good length, and the…
ashamed but hateful
hate is kind of ashamed to make itself known in polite company so it tries to be funny makes a joke and drops a second shoe punchline people shrug shift, refocus why the need to lie within a structure that doesn’t laugh…
Zip Through
The Rattleheads have been mainlining Tooth Fairy again, skirting around the edge of a Sanctity Zone, kicking out localised EMP blasts. A Signal Cop unholsters his interrupt gun and fires a heavy dose of shutdown at them and you seem them fritz…
A Little Bit For Late Night
The early days of the year are a limnal space – the ideational matrix not quite solidified yet, into a picture of what it means. Can it be stacked in a bundle of sticks that all burn the same? One hopes that…
it settles the guts
late night kimchi noodles it’s tasty it settles the guts how many cats sleeping in inappropriate places? a girl laying her head down a late night push into some profundity tiny little poems
Against The Grain
He watched the beach inside the egg timer slow to a trickle and then he watched the last grain halt. Every particle invested with a meaning not obvious from a surface read. They called him and his kind Screens, because they occupied…
Politics
I watched Fahrenheit 11/9 the other day. I had to get some distance from politics for a while, but this drew me back in, as Michael Moore is wont to do. I know he is like garlic to some political persuasions, but…