Exnihilonihilfit

To know what hate feels like is to know the bitter side of life, it steals little pieces of your soul, little pieces that might never grow. I was at work the day after Christmas, nineteen eighty five, when the call came. And my boss, who was my friend, handed me the phone with a…

Two women eat from the same plate, an uneasy truce between them. Careful not to touch one another, always keeping the wary eye. Their alliance is their strength – a bond both larger and stronger and they dominate the man to keep him away from their plate. © All Rights Reserved

To the slaughter daily is led a gentle soul that we are fed, mercy pleas fall on ears so deaf from a heart whence love is bereft. They claim supreme, all mankind, so out of tune and out of time one day to rise up and find the mellow source of natures rhyme. Not boxed…

You see a homeless bum, when you look at me incapable of love, living on the street. A fallen man living off your trash A lazy buggar begging a buck I scare your wife on her Sunday drive You tell your kids ‘be good or you’ll be like him’. But it’s you, your kind –…

The exuberance of your youth Clings to your every move, The giggles you freely share Defeats the silence in the air. One look at your budding form Tells the world a woman is born. Woman or child, the choice you face, Will you grow or go out and play. In your heart neither choice is…

A cool night in January – folks out for the evening pass by on the street and stare at this old man in his rocking chair. From his head flows long thin hair, from behind him the music blares. The old man doesn’t even care that in nineteen ninety-five he lives two decades out of…