Colorful Character
"You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans." ~Ronald Reagan I eat the red jellybeans first. After all the red jellybeans have been greedily devoured, even if small children must be shoved aside or tricked to secure them all, I then seek the ...
madness’s honesty
It was a time of honest madness and of madness's honesty, up all night in a small, dirty apartment, writing, drawing, sculpting, forgetting to eat or sleep. If not doing one of those three things, I had my nose in a philosophy book, furiously scribbling smudgy notes, my pedestrian notions, ...
Nothing to Talk About
It’s been nearly forty-five years since I was spawned. They pulled me out of a yawning, bloody hole in my mother’s stomach; she likely still has the scar. I suppose it’s time for a mid-life crisis or two. Maybe several, each a spectacular, fiery display of futility. All I’ve done ...
symbiotic
In the time between, I’ve only words, clumsy creatures, falling over face-first, imprecise instruments, incapable of symphony. Still, I wish you might know how I feel, even if diminished by the bludgeon of words. While neither can be fully conveyed by herald, truth and love, symbiotic, are of the same ...
beautiful things
two astride, as the trail is wide at the narrow, we divide I fall behind, you think it kind walking ahead, to scent a flower you find rustling within shadow’s gloom as you enjoyed June’s full bloom hungry eyes, consumed of fiery glow though, in your purity, you didn’t know ...
irresistible impossibility
..And I hope you’ll forgive my cross-finger rebuke of this zombified resurrection, this craven, staggering halfling. It’s just that I still remember you as the nameless emotion that the torn-paper poets violate the stars and galaxies to find; it’s just that I still think of you as the back-alley stabbing, ...
Barking at Shadows
Writing is just talking. There’s nothing to it, really. We all talk, at least sometimes. We all have something to say, at least sometimes. To take it further, we all have something interesting to say, at least once in a while. The rest of the times might just be our ...