Monthly Archives: April 2011

IAM It hurts sometimes to hear you’re sad and there’s nothing I can do about it not because I am not a good and caring person but because you don’t know me and don’t know what I would do to … Continue reading →

ARTISTIC IMPULSE Beautiful songwriter in the lonely cafe: your voice is so lovely, so sincere when you sing the classics. Continue, please. Entertain us with the canon. Keep singing the songs of others. Stick with the hits. The material you … Continue reading →

THE RETURN Honey, it has been so long since the funeral and the ultimatum and the end. We have not spoken in all that time though I have envisioned our conversations – or, rather, the gestures since I can never … Continue reading →

SEVEN SUBJECTS It has come to my attention through life study and seconds of research that there are seven subjects of poetry plus one which makes eight. All the topics that have ever been written about are boiled down to … Continue reading →

ALL APOLOGIES LXXVIII I am sorry. I am sorry I forgot how to love you. I am sorry that those things that seemed so charming, so adorable, so long ago have transformed into shuriken tossed accidentally at one another. I … Continue reading →

THE GAME OF MERCY She said, "If you’re not going to play the game…" and I laughed: "I’ll try harder." "OK," she said, looking up at me, "One word, then. What is on your kitchen table?" "Dirt," I answered. She … Continue reading →

THESE WICKED GAMES Never play Chicken with Steve or I Never or Mercy. That boy plays for keeps in the games children live. He is brutal and experienced and, however engaged or competitive you may be, he wins. Steve is … Continue reading →

UNDER THE GROUND "Renters are fifty percent more likely than homeowners to be buried alive." I did not read that on a poster this morning while riding on the train – though I thought I did. I think I need … Continue reading →

THE TRIP She didn’t want me. She swore that early on before she knew what such things meant she had sworn an oath upon eternity that she would marry a man named Mark Milton III. "Is your name Mark Milton … Continue reading →