Welcome to Anyburb, USA where the prototypical strip mall is alive and well. The hair-pizza-laundry-liquor-flower-nail-Chinese-convenience store all fun-sized and bundled cozily together in a paint overdue broken AC set from a low budget Troma movie. “Toxic Avenger 4: The Strip Mall Years.” If not for the presence of a prepaid cellular shop you’d feel likeContinue reading “Strip Mall World”
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Tribal Gathering
Sitting here fireside bathed in the ghostly starlight it occurs suddenly to me that it’s not for the heat nor the light that we kindle this fire tonight. It’s for the gathering that the fire promotes. It’s about the family and the friends and the glory of our common bond. The flame beacons us andContinue reading “Tribal Gathering”
Sickamore
Fifteen years ago we planted a tree in the front yard of our new home and dedicated it to the little life we had just planting in this world. Over the years we watched it grow and even as our marriage ended that little tree kept adding branches…growing stronger…taller. A growing symbol of the resilienceContinue reading “Sickamore”
Chapter New
So it seems that the insanity of youth is never fully squelched, only momentarily silenced amidst the deafening tones of adulthood. It seems that the roar of our most vulnerable years can become a rally cry for the 2nd coming of our spirit. Our souls are not bound by contract to follow lock-step the callContinue reading “Chapter New”
Lament for the lost smile
Oh where have you gone, Smilemaker? Once so clear and residing so near And now stricken completely from sight. Where did it go wrong, Smilemaker? Was the formula diluted, the chemistry polluted Or has the magic been poisoned away. Where do I go now, Smilemaker? My smiles are gone, conclusions been drawn And I’ve beenContinue reading “Lament for the lost smile”
Delusional Intoxicant Fit- Part 3 “Fell in love with an stripper”
So incendiary and decadent. Forlorn fruit. Surrendered temptation and sullied decency. Backsliding into adolescence when idealistic intentions reigned supreme and the rain superseded the thunder and lightning superficially ceded inelegantly against the criminally abused barn door of brilliance that suspends our disbelief only long enough to slap us squarely across the face of our fadingContinue reading “Delusional Intoxicant Fit- Part 3 “Fell in love with an stripper””
Perspective
Tonight I sat in the stands of Jack White Stadium and watched a team from the myspace-text-message generation play their hearts out. There on the sideline stood a familiar yet much older coach hunched over and moving slightly slower than I remember. His notorious “ear fro” had become a much more stately gray. Late inContinue reading “Perspective”
On the Breath of Summer
There in the radiance of the retreating solstice sun she suddenly appeared An apparition of elegance or a taunting specter of discontent? A dogged reminder of persistent failures and unquenchable thirst. Yet another oasis in this desert of metaphors. Backlit by illuminance and shining like an angel in the afterimage The light carressing her gentleContinue reading “On the Breath of Summer”
Introducing…Karuna
One last glimpse at what is not mine and I am granted peace. A potential point of paranoia provided glorious closure. The chapter can now be closed, the story has come full circle. In the end I couldn’t kill the love. It couldn’t be surgically removed without killing myself. There is no way to replaceContinue reading “Introducing…Karuna”
Wither Without You
Digitally demastered with apologies to Mr. Hewson Feel the stone hit your side Feel the porn twist in your mind I rape for you Light of sand and fist of rage A bloody mess pressed on the page And I rape for you Wither without you Wither without you Threw the stone, breached the dawnContinue reading “Wither Without You”
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