Monthly Archives: June 2017

Excerpts from a Book I’ll Never Write

What I wrote before appears not to have quite been in English. What seemed so clever and creative at first glance proved in the dark of night to be naught but insensate ramblings. And maybe that’s OK. Maybe it’s all … Continue reading

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Reign of Errors

When I said what I said I might have been wrong. I swore I would follow you no matter what be there for you regardless of any adversity but I think we’ve both seen that truer words have frequently been … Continue reading

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Text Best Thing

The book I borrowed from the library because you once mentioned it has not been too easy to get into though it’s proven really effective as a doorstop. I keep thinking that the novel could be the thing to bridge … Continue reading

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Some Kind of Past

Weeds split cement as is their wont and sprouts of various sorts crowd out the fencing leaving very little sign of what was there before. Before a mighty bar once rose here in this lot, a bar with an active … Continue reading

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Uneasy Peace

We have stopped arguing, at least but the eggs on which we tread are new and fragile and we must both be careful where we step and how, as well lest we crash down into a mess of fluid and … Continue reading

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One After

Sean Lennon now is older than John Lennon ever was or ever will be. Imagine: what must that be like, to realize you’ve outlived and underperformed your pops? Jesus’ first born must feel something pretty similar. Of course, Sean is … Continue reading

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The Elvis in Question

Ali, were you at the same Elvis Costello show the other day that I was? I thought, in the middle of the night, I spied you jetting past but you were so fast and I was so intent on that … Continue reading

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The Curse of Today

Give up on the day. Just admit defeat and request a do-over. It can do no harm to simply quit and be done with a day that can do you no good. Return to bed. Resist the urge to crash … Continue reading

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Dependent

In the part of the musical where all the plans come together and the melodramatic swell of the villain’s cacophony of atrocities all coalesce into those final exquisite orchestral soundings I found myself overcome. When the band boomed on and … Continue reading

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Six Radio

Near the end we swore eternal fealty, that no matter what happened we would always stay in touch and maintain the sturdy relationship we had at the start except we had no relationship at the start. We met at the … Continue reading

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