Monthly Archives: December 2016

I’ve been pondering and I can’t figure it out. What do you like? How can you spend your time with someone like me when Steve is just so many feet away? You should like Steve. I can’t imagine why you … Continue reading →

Don’t die. I know you have every right to. I know you turn 94 today and this has proved to be The Year When People Die and you are among your many accomplishments a people. I know that stronger men … Continue reading →

When I saw you across the crowded room I forgot to breathe but not like back in the day when you took my breath away with such regularity. This time, it was the shock of the unexplained. What were you … Continue reading →

Andrew Ridgeley is sad about what has happened to his former partner. Andrew is struck by the fragility of life and thinks “if it could happen to him, it could happen to anyone. It could happen to me!” and begins … Continue reading →

Please don’t write me or call me or reach out to me in any way. I just need a little time to process. I’d like a chance to consider everything we’ve talked about and come to some resolution on my … Continue reading →

This poem could save your life. This poem could save the world. This poem this very one that you’re reading – or hearing, if you bought the audiotape – this poem could transform your perception of the world around you … Continue reading →

A gorgeous girl lived above the pizza place and I would visit her there whenever she would let me. It’s been quite some time since I’ve entered that apartment, as she had left the neighborhood and my life around the … Continue reading →

After your ultimatum I did as you asked and I took a night to think about our relationship and I have come to the conclusion that you were right. I don’t think that I will ever see you as an … Continue reading →

I wear my father’s shoes the ones he left beside the easy chair when he slipped into slippers at the end of a retired day. They sat there when we found him and only left their spot when we emptied … Continue reading →

There’re some new people in your apartment. I haven’t met them yet but I don’t think they’ll be as much fun as you. I don’t believe we’ll talk across the courtyard, learning some form of bastard semaphore for late night … Continue reading →