Until Death Do I Part

I do not keep a journal. I do not record my daily thoughts, or, the mindless daily activities of others. The simple truth is that contemporary life offers so little challenge. Whatever I want to read, or hear, or taste can be offered up at the touch of a button; for a small fee the…

Dancing in the flame of life, unaware of the forces that feed, no need to know of the heat or the air or the fuel, and yet — take one of them away, just one, and the dancing will cease. Dancing in the flame of life, controlled and deliberate, not allowed to leap too high…

“Hey man, can you spare some change?” a fellow asked me the other day while I was strolling down the street and wandered into this fellows beat. “No pal” came a swift reply “I got nothing to give,” was my standard lie ’cause I did have something to give this man, But it wasn’t a…

I know your name, your age, and your address, Your best friend and your sexual preference, Who you dated in high school, and since then, Much more do I know, yet we’ve never met. Finding you out was easy, It only took me one day; I know you’ll think this is sleazy, But your license…

A cool moist breeze blows gently from the western sky, high clouds form overhead passing through the night. It is said a storm is coming. My little square of green tin twirls wildly in the wind, a clapper high on its string strikes the tubes who sing. A song is played for the storm. Kittens…

I’ve been this way before, different time and different place, alone, outside and lonely, amongst so many friends, searching for a newness amongst the same old thing. Was first as a child not past the first grade, my heart was hollowed out from the core as with a clade, and left to dry – I…