I AM NOT THE SAME I am the beast who beats his family down. I am drama queen, philosopher, and clown. I am an orchid where the thistles grow, I am seldom the same five minutes in a row. I have no patience for a minor delay, Deferential and insistent on getting my way,...
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE Dear Diary, I got through Day One alive. In this alternate universe I’ll be lucky to survive. Lots of weirdness all around; Here’s a summary of what I’ve found. For starters, pancakes are square And everybody sleeps Sitting up in a chair. Playing...
TEN PERCENT DEAD At first I thought it was an expanding mole, But instead on my face was a penny-size hole. I looked a little closer and the mirror said, “It looks, my friend, like you’re ten percent dead.” I felt somewhat off the whole day long, An eerie feeling I...
THE LINGERING LIGHT CAIN AND ABEL One tills the field, one tends the flock, No more in eternity; now bound to the clock. In these early days of The Lingering Light, One will follow the true and right. One will give way as darkness grows, As goodness ebbs and evil...
NOISE Motorcycles, leaf blowers, Music blasting at partygoers. TVs blare every damned where. It’s all the equivalent of audio glare. Jackhammers hammer, Airheads yammer while the angry clamor. Sirens scream. How can anyone pray or dream? Yet our civilized noise Is a...
