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Month: May 2009

  • Sacred What-not’s

    It’s been another one of those trying times when I’m looked on with sheer alarm and utter pity by all those around me. Things I’ve learned in the past week, dear reader:  Nothing is sacred. It is time to change doctors when the one you have effectively burns your what-not’s off.  Often times, I am…

  • Include But Are Not Limited to

    There are consequences to living.   The consequences include but are not limited to the remembering of the moments in which you became someone else: the doctor’s office, the dining room when you were 16 years old, the last glance at your childhood home (which is to say your last glance at home), his house,…

  • that girl must die

    Are you going to hurt yourself, he asks. I say no I think I’ve done enough of that.   It’s so common I know but I hate knowing I’m unclean and having to tell to confess:   I who knows better I who should know better than anyone I who wanted to please a man…

  • Something Worse than Weak

    I’m glad I got to see you Such sincerity She meant it Her eyes said she loved me Her eyes said she’d suffered Her eyes wouldn’t stop talking.   In pettiness, I find grief, not just for her. I know I’m something more than wrong, I’m something worse than weak. I don’t think she notices.…

  • Suffering Writer’s Guilt

    I wonder if you suffer, too writer’s guilt and all of that. To see gray-blue as a feeling never a hue.

  • The Left, the Right, What’s Left: Continued Thoughts on Marcus Luttrell (Lone Survivor)

    I think the bastards should die. And I think the bastards should live. Those are my comprehensive thoughts about war and the Other Side. Listen. Let’s say you and I were driving somewhere, maybe to see my mother or camp or go shopping. You are driving. We are in a sharp curve, and a dog…

  • Specifically Calling Out Poeticgrin aka Bryan Borland

    I have been irrevocably offended. In a poem recently submitted to me for approval/critique/kicks, someone used  two of the three word phrase I use in one of my delectable and entertaining poetic series. This violation will be worth a life time of 6’s and 8’s– never a 7!!

  • Blessing

    Bless her heart, Helen Keller thought she wrote that story of her own merit and creation something that sounded right right Bless your heart of course, it has a ring to it I wrote it Ring ring

  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

    Explore grief. Joan Didion introduces you to her world as her husband dies and her only daughter goes though intense medical crises. One of the best books I’ve ever read because Didion is plain-spoken and sharp-edged. She is brilliant at looping ideas to reflect the ruminations of grief/depression—not to mention it’s also a cool writing…

  • Irrational Thoughts about Physical Proximity

    A secret thought I would have followed through smile on my lips but alas I missed the exit again