when summertime azure blues turn a dark navy and the monotonous job ticks a migraine with the second hand on the hazy clock and it’s too hot to barbecue in the ankle high grass, there’s nothing like a thunderstorm to release steam off of blazing blacktop streets and foreheads, watching wet wind gusts after an [...]
she drove the 309 expressway, stockpiling bloody road-kill into her station wagon until it was full of dead meat and whirring flies. then, she floated her black dress and long tar hair to a moist 3 a.m. backyard. that’s when we coasted by with headlights on her shovel hurling stony dirt, giving a proper burial [...]
yield at the driveway’s end and enter the road as two blurred headlights…grip the wheel…steer your days through the road hogs’ procession that’s out to get you and me… no mother can soothe this nightmare…not even the police can save you…they can only pull you from the metal flesh mangle as a heap of smoky [...]
are you a flesh robot of flawless data, void of emotions and a name? able to haul immense bags and see through clusters of trees? good at reading the curvature of man-made Earth and configuring wind direction and speed? benefits include opportunity to trample through poison ivy and walk in a polluted creek. are you [...]
i puff on the cigar and slowly cremate myself with tangy tobacco. ashes plunging to the pavement will be my own someday. so, roll me in a Havana, baby. let’s breath in each other’s cinder of yesterday’s picnic, for tomorrow will be no red and white checkered tablecloth on trimmed grass. walk along with me. [...]
look what they’ve done to you… too much multi-tasking… you can’t even sit still for a minute’s time without wondering what to do next. the ones you dig always run… you get to enjoy them for a season or two… you briefly taste the life that you have always wanted to. a statistic waiting to [...]
put down your magnifying glass. let go of your stethescope. break in half your journal entry pen. disconnect the cable lines. stretch out your limbs and keep with the proper dosage. yank out the plugs and see as you drain the headache hostess. you have never danced in this way. a lost game piece finally [...]
alright now…let’s do this. let’s get…this overwith. i felt…the click of your switch. and i know…what’s to happen next. ’cause i read…the note you didn’t hide well. so, which person are you going to be today? floating…in your orbit. gloating…forced to forfeit. monday…seemed so perfect. now i know…you’re just a great actress. things you said…naked [...]
before i called it a night, i spotted you on the cinderblock wall. you were larger than a quarter. therefore, you were a threat to my life. the previous dinner conversation was primarily about reincarnation. i knew of some chick downtown that collected insects, but i didn’t have a cage to put you in. so, [...]
The First Wrinkle
mall escalators, record store aisles, campus pathways… every public area is a catwalk. fashions like musical instruments, i keep thinking i’ve seen them all. i’ve accepted them all and been a part of many. but then i saw three beautiful girls wearing used pants of an obese man… they were gorgeous girls, yet hiding their [...]