What a day—a series of small blunders, all of them my fault. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking… The war is long over but the mistakes continue to compound to the point where nobody nobody knows where it really stands There may be time to call them back home but the [...]
Today’s entry. Candle fragrance snakes through the room wood and spice settling upon the tongue mouths water Clothes absorb the imaginary smoke anticipating the closets they will soon imbue with the flavors they bring home (14 September 2017)
Today’s entry. Ask any drunk he’ll tell you that truths dry up when the liquor stops flowing Hesitation cannot scale those walls without 80 proof to cut them down to size Not to mention that the sober poet hates the sound of his own voice Without that drink to open the gates there’d be nothing [...]
Feels like slim pickings at the moment. There are thousands upon thousands of books on the shelves in which none of the stories told ever happened not even in a ‘names have been changed to protect the innocent’ kind of way We treat the characters as though they were family friends lovers but all of [...]
Something a bit lighter… One act of resistance that has been heretofore overlooked is the mighty earworm: that song (or hook from a song) that gets stuck in your head and loops repeatedly— especially if it’s a song you hate If everyone in this country would pick their own most-hated earworm find it on YouTube® [...]
Heard lots of poetry today. Not so much writing, though. From this morning: It wasn’t what you’d call crisp but the edges were sharp enough to cut leaving slices and slivers to mark the scene What didn’t get blown away by the breeze churned long enough to cause collateral damage The letter has sat on [...]
So I remembered why I stopped watching anything on Amazon Instant Video. At least I got a poem out of it… The sound cuts out every few seconds to make a jittery narrative out of convention This annoys him but he keeps watching The platen advances but half a line This adjustment is slightly harder [...]
A thinly veiled account… __________ survived being lonely __________ held out for longer than __________ thought possible The problem was that __________ and __________ spoke different languages For __________, it was all about giving doing those little things here and there remembering unexpected details about the things __________ liked what made __________ happy What __________ [...]
Making bizarre connections out of things that are not connected… Nightporters and calipers have nothing in common they’re just interesting words to put together There aren’t many things like that you can put together without complications people used to say that we needed someone in office who would run the country more like a business [...]
I have been getting 8: Eight-word Poems ready for proofing, so this is all I have for today… Don’t make whispers let them happen and what will come will come Whispers actually take more energy than speaking normally Do you feel that tightness in your throat? (6 September 2017)
