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Lately I have had discussions with my mother about things that happened in the distant past. Things from my youth, that I dredge up to lay out and present as amusements for others. I ask for verification about events as … Continue reading →

Julia said if I wanted to get Lucky, Dexter’s Bar on Avenue B was the best place to look. “What if I don’t want to get Lucky?” I asked. She threw my keys at me. I caught them, so I … Continue reading →

All right, clearly, I said that wrong and I just want to say that I am so SO sorry. I just wanted to fuck with you I did NOT mean to suggest molesting your recently deceased father. I don’t know … Continue reading →

When your stomach empties out like you’re on your fourteenth stout it must be love. If you find that you can’t speak without that itty bitty squeak it must be love. When you see you’re losing steam and you’re slow … Continue reading →

In the Long Ago When of my teaching years, a television was brought in so the children could watch the procession for Richard Nixon’s funeral. They were elementary school kids in underfunded areas of the Bronx who would have been … Continue reading →

Well, I certainly hope you’re proud of yourself. Look. LOOK! There are comic books to be read videos to watch tweets to be liked – or, I don’t know, xeets? You are falling behind. You HAVE fallen behind. You are … Continue reading →

Someone’s got to wash the dishes. Someone’s got to sweep the floors. Someone’s got to be the one to be responsible, of course. If anyone should be that person, I would like to volunteer to be the one to point … Continue reading →

It is that point in the night where you know you have something left to do but your brain will not focus enough to tell you what it is. You keep circling around subjects fading out on street corners like … Continue reading →

Storm’s coming. You can feel it in the air. There’s a heaviness, a sense of danger. Looking out the window, you can see a blue sky but there’s little doubt: the storm is on its way. The animals are spooked. … Continue reading →

You had forgotten the power in rage, the strength one finds in seething. An energy builds as you look for a place to displace it like an innocent victim. You had forgotten the power in defiance in refusal when all … Continue reading →