I continued staring listlessly the freezer, wasting pennies of electricity to confirm my knowledge that there was nothing to eat which did not require hours of thawing, preparation, and probably ingredients that did not exist in my kitchen. Eric had finished the ice cream yesterday – not the mint chocolate chip – that had been [...]
Archive for March, 2009
25 Mar
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
You see it all the time, in movies and nightmares and Lifetime dramas.
The soldier, or maybe a pair of them, walking solemnly up a driveway. Cut to a hand ringing a doorbell. Cut to the yellow slip of paper, bright and fluttering and screaming its message. Cut to the reaction, the payoff shots of the [...]
22 Mar
I Am Out of Order
The below is completely fictional. I am going to stretch my incredibly creaky fictional joints for the next several posts, basically trying to put myself first-person into scenarios and write it out. Sometimes the point will the the prose, sometimes the situation, hopefully eventually both. Right now I am focusing more on poetry and situational/character [...]
22 Mar
There we sat,
nothing but awkwardness and empty plates which had been full of meat’n’cheese omelet for me and pancakes for her.
We’d been friends all though grade school until high school, when she moved to Montana. Something about better ranches and her dad needing more room for grazing . . . when you’re young no reason is a [...]
20 Mar
Nasty or Nice
While I’m sure Nicholas would argue he’d rather be smart and nasty, a la Dr. House, my most recent aggravation is people who are inconsiderate, if not outright mean. Not just random people, though that is annoying, but friends, Romans, countrymen.
It’s not that I’m always considerate, or that I always apologize (or realize) when I’ve [...]
19 Mar
Young Men and Younger Men
I like sports. I wish I had enough time and less enough conscience to be a bit more of a fanatic, but I manage to be a fairly knowledgeable fan.
So though I cannot name the starting roster for almost any constantly evolving, revolving team (except for the women’s National soccer team), I will recognize the [...]
18 Mar
Job Security
I wrote a while back about struggles I was having at my work, trying to get Medicare to pay for services rendered after making us re-enroll in their system entirely.
Medicare finally paid US, instead of the patients. Two days of phone haggling later, we sent the check back and they were supposed to redistribute to [...]
17 Mar
High Class?
Through various and sundry means, I get three or four or five or . . . a lot of free magazine subscriptions per yer. My mailperson probably thinks I have no life.
So though I have a handy dandy little Guide on my TV, and can always look up listings online, I get the paper version [...]
16 Mar
I Have A Short . . . oooh, Cookies.
I think one of the reasons our society has such small attention spans and has lost so much of the art of conversation is because of its obsession with Twitter, Facebook, texting, et al.
The written medium isn’t all negative. I’ve spent more time alone with books than with most people. As a speaker or performer, [...]
14 Mar
I’m standing stock still
The pinpoint of sanity in topsy reality
My own touchstone
Constant
while around me is
spinning and vertigo
ing out of control
Centered
in a left-aligned,
right-aligned world
Fearing to reach out
I’d not pull others in
I’d only go circling out into the dark
what-I-cannot-see
Ending up in the orbit
of others’ reality
where they’re standing
Stock Still
not budging
in their own circles of knowledge
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