Monthly Archives: April 2016

The Mister Softee composer just died fifty five years after giving birth to his greatest creation (though his children might have something else to say). He wrote the radio jingle that has accompanied hundreds of ice cream trucks across the … Continue reading →

Give me all the cliches. Use whatever language is necessary to make this go away. Provide the language of comfort and help me take this all in. All the mitigating justifying technically accurate but inherently misleading words you can find … Continue reading →

You said I would miss this someday and I said Sure. Of course. I will definitely miss you tickling me when I’m in the middle of the best Tetris game of my life. I will think back fondly on the … Continue reading →

I’ll regret this later I’m sure, but I wanted to hear your voice. I wanted to know how you’re doing. I wanted to see your spirit again. This won’t go well. It never does. When I succumb to these addictions … Continue reading →

When you left I was so angry so frustrated that you weren’t brave enough to stay to fight to combat your injustice and win. You just fled a thief in the dark and everybody could make whatever lesson out of … Continue reading →

You don’t love me now but you will. I can see the day where you realize the error of your ways and admit that I’ve been the one for you all along. I will wait. I will be patient I … Continue reading →

Sh! SHH! Stanley wrote a poem and I’ve got to hear it. It’s his first so it’s his best so far and I want to enjoy it as much as I can even though Stanley’s a novice and even though … Continue reading →

There is nothing more to be said. We’re done all business completed all ideas exhausted. We are finished here and I’m sorry that you didn’t see it earlier because the signs were not hard to see but if you need … Continue reading →

John Milton, blind and ignorant, sold the rights to Paradise Lost for ten pounds but that was back at a time when ten pounds really meant something. Consider: One of the greatest works in English – and thus one of … Continue reading →

It does not have to be like this. We don’t have to face each other down behind tank sites protected seeking out only new weaknesses. We can escape our armor and stare at each other naked, unafraid. We can work … Continue reading →