Monthly Archives: February 2013

My poem is better than your poem. The thoughts in my head are purer more evocative stronger – and faster too. I can write deeper than you with greater wit and cleverosity – and more evocative consonants. You’ll find more … Continue reading →

The exterminator is sick of me with my calls and my begging and my incessant offers of Reals to get the job done. ‘Stop calling!’ he says ‘and leave me alone. ‘You do not have tortoises in your ceiling!’ O! … Continue reading →

I couldn’t do what she did. I could never survive in isolation without family friends and the Internet to keep me whole. It would be painful. I would be suicidal. It would be unsatisfying. I could never do what she … Continue reading →

Glorious Return Did it hurt when you came down from up above to join us again? Did it feel strange to come back among us, to rejoin your former companions and act like everything’s normal? We got by without you. … Continue reading →

I swear, I hear you everywhere. When I’m alone, when there’s nothing to distract me, I suspect that you are with me. I believe despite your prolonged absence that you are near. I hear you walking by just above my … Continue reading →

Life happens. Change happens. I know that. I get it. I understand the circle of life the winds of time the torture of the temporary. I just thought like the tree out back you’d be there for me as long … Continue reading →

It’s not blasphemy when it’s true. Muhammad Ali said that when he abandoned Malcolm X but it’s just as true for me when I state like Beatles just the facts. I am his superior. I am bigger than Jesus. Taller … Continue reading →

You cannot plan your path to inspiration. You can lay seeds, hoping to reap whirligigs or cute cat memes or whatever it is you’re working on but in the finalty, creation ain’t science: it’s art. The magical things are not … Continue reading →

Dear Mr. President: You need to understand the world does not simply follow your simple plan – or maybe it’s not that simple. I don’t have a TV. I don’t have a TV because SOMEONE thought it was more important … Continue reading →

The sauce on the beast in the city will bully saucy city beasts in an urban, especially saucy fashion. That is what you’re getting at, is it not? That is what you’re seeking to say. If so, why not say … Continue reading →