Monthly Archives: November 2018

(to the beat of a guitar body being thunked sporadically by a white boy with dreds) There’s a rumble going on up there in the Bronx. Once you hear what’s happening, you will be zonks’ed! Here’s a story that I … Continue reading →

It’s closing down, dying, at least a decade after giving up the ghost. Once a great dive bar, its fortunes rose and fell with the waves of the neighborhood but now, the local tastes have proven too rich for what … Continue reading →

Yes, I see you striving, struggling to be a better person. I see how hard it is no matter how very much you have improved in such a short time. It is stunning what you have done. It is really … Continue reading →

You asked me a question which maybe was the question but I didn’t see it or hear it, rather, at the time. I didn’t recognize the import even though I found it somewhat significant at the moment in question when … Continue reading →

He keeps telling me I smell, keeps bringing it up intimating that no one else is motivated to speak this truth that only he has my interests at heart or his nose to my grindstone and that the grindstone is … Continue reading →

It’s gotta stop. After tonight, I’m out of here. We’re too toxic. I’ve got to get away from all of this ugliness we’ve made. It can’t continue like this. We just can’t. Maybe with a little time a little space … Continue reading →

You gave me one thing to do one simple thing. It wasn’t difficult to understand and the consequences were made quite clear; I knew what would happen if I couldn’t handle the job. One thing and I couldn’t do it. … Continue reading →

You’ll regret this, probably. All major decisions – all big changes – are dangerous and must be undertaken with proper trepidation because something will possibly go wrong. Let’s go back: Something will absolutely go wrong. It’s just important to decide … Continue reading →

It was nice to have someone to care for someone to be nice to someone to smile at to smile with for a couple of minutes there. I appreciated that very much. I would like to have that again. Thank … Continue reading →

There are so many pillows here so many ruffles so much lace. It is hard to move freely with the degree of refinement all around me. This is unfortunate. I am uncomfortable the veritable bull in China, shopping around for … Continue reading →