Where I’m From - a scatterbrained memoir ( Read more... )

20 January 2017

Today the 45th President of the United States (or POTUS as it is fashionable to call him [or her] these days) is inaugurated ( Read more... )

Fear is the heart of love.
a short story

All night flight. I came here on an all night flight. Only a few months ago it was back in the fall, the autumn, yes, I remember it no don’t tell me I was always here haunting this house - these houses - on N Street, these twin brownstones standing side by side from a hundred years before Citizen Kane and ( Read more... )

It's a Wayne Gretzy quote:

“I don't skate to where the puck is. I skate to where the puck is going to be. "

One.
I don’t skate. I break my head on the cement wall. There is blood. And pain.
Go back to edit. Sometimes I will go, afterwards, back to where the puck was gone.
That is not writing. That is editing. And that’s okay.
Too.

Two.
So I ( Read more... )

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Jantelagen
Sang-froid
Kummerspeck

Possum ran over my grave

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Oh child

knave of hearts
do not go    gently into that age-ing
cold-blooded                            non-sequitur
you   
                  think ?

Seems Madam nay it is
east of Eden         filthy whore          son
drove his trans-Am        over   my              grave

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Brushback Pitch  : a converse-action
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Why don’t you slide down a razor blade into a pool of alcohol.
What?
So’s your mama.
Now see here…
You see here.
What?
Yeah, that.
Say what?
You heard me.
Damn. Seems like you want me to shit or get off the pot.
Yeah, man, that’s it. Either you quit bitching or get out of the kitchen.
You the one who’s ( Read more... )

My old friend - let’s call him Paul ( Read more... )

I need the struggle to feel alive
Sometimes it is not enough ( Read more... )

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I remember being introduced to ballroom dancing.

It was part of my cultural and social education. I mean, that is, “our” education. For dancing is, and always has been - except for shamans - a community activity. And even a shaman - although she or he dances alone with God - even that prophet is expected to bring back the message and grace and ( Read more... )

Okay I am going to do this, again. Not always been here, but I am ten now. Yes.