that time
First I saw the blinking red light. Then I pressed the button. Then I heard the beep. Then I heard, “Hello Eric, this is your brother Tom. Call me back as soon as you get this. You'd better be sitting down.”
27 postsWhat We Love Is What We Hope Is Who We Are
For most of my life, I felt disconnected and adrift. My childhood was marked by abuse and neglect. I never
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My Vertical Interrogation
I believe I am the figment of a little boy’s imagination. He’s trying to imagine himself in the future. In a different future than the one he expects. I am ten years old imaging I am sixty-three.
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A Bad Fall, and a Return
(This is part of a series. You can read related posts here.)
I had a bad fall. As in the
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The Custom of Violence
It is not known what his disposition was as an infant but it is assumed that he was born innocent,
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The Saddest Piss in the World
i’m standing in a dark closet dreaming
dreaming like a monkey
what a monkey sounds like
what a monkey sounds like when it stubs it’s toe
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Queequeg, Cleopatra, and Xerxes Walk Into a Bar
We were poor. Number 10-sized cans of mealy, sinewy, chicken guts, peanut butter, and powdered eggs. Embarrassing standing in line to pick it all up.
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At the Enduro
Most people think they know what makes a haiku, and most of them are wrong.
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Does It Matter if You Touch the Ashes? I Did Not Touch the Ashes
i took my dead mother for a walk last week at Land’s End, by chance i was just looking for easy access water to dump her in to dissolve her, i guess was the intention i didn’t give it that much thought
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Here's Lookin' at You, Kid
I don’t have writer’s block. I have writer’s fright. Nothing is permitted. Everything is true. I tell
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The Fause Knight on the Road
This little gem is from from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
‘O WHARE are ye gaun?’
Quo the fause
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