Monthly Archives: March 2024

Redefine

Speak to me again. Call me by the name I was born into not the one I chose the one where I redefined myself. Call me by my original identity when I knew not who I really was. Name me … Continue reading

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The Change is Gonna Go

Then there was the day when the pockets got ripped open because the metal coins were pulled from it and just, like, torn from each person’s clothes, then rolled away into those trucks, which just rolled away to those central … Continue reading

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Standard Bearing

I walked up the mountain – well really a hill and asked the philosopher, “Please tell me: will I ever be happy? And how can it be?” After contemplating, she said to me, “Lower your standards. It’s easy to do. … Continue reading

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O’er the Ramparts

It looks like Baltimore’s gotten a facelift since they lost a major part of their infrastructure with a broken Francis Scott Key Bridge. A container vessel smashed into the site and it crumpled like forty five year old engineering that … Continue reading

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All Bad Things…

I guess I can’t be too upset. The scam’s run about ten years now. If it’s out of steam now, it’s still had a good run. The apartment my Dad lived in before he moved – before he died – … Continue reading

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Impossible is Nothing

The impossible came for a visit the other day. It was only for an hour. I knew it couldn’t stay. I flipped the coin a bunch of times: seventeen tails and gold flowed from the tap streaming into pails. The … Continue reading

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The Unparticular Genus of Mister B

Yes, I did it. I committed the crime did the time stopped the mime from his fucking acts of terror before a helpless community. I got the improv troupe to quit it, too. Is it too much to call me … Continue reading

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The Show 2

How’d it go? How did it go? How was the show? Here’s the flow of the blow-by-blow: I conquered. I commanded. I created commitment in the congregation where before there was disquiet. I presented my pieces in a particular placement … Continue reading

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Lessons for the Learning Englitian

When you invent your vocabulary make sure you know how to pronounce them. This is very important: if you don’t know how to pronounce your created words, who does? This was driven home recently when the very title of a … Continue reading

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What Liam Liked

Liam said he liked the update on the old piece but I think he preferred the original. It was what he was familiar with and what he said he’d been riffing on with his wife for the last few years. … Continue reading

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