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Friends & NeighborsBy then I was tired of your ballet jokes. Our Thirty Years War started with a sequence of red roofs a...
08/24/2026

Friends & Neighbors

By then I was tired of your ballet jokes. Our Thirty Years War started with a sequence of red roofs and a glimpse of the Žižkov TV Tower. Kundera called Prague a disappearing poem. I don’t know. I drank Velvet beerwith girls in Slayer shirts; You drank boys. The moon drank blood. The two Josephs have no pastand I refuse to look for any meaning in it....

By then I was tired of your ballet jokes. Our Thirty Years War started with a sequence of red roofs and a glimpse of the Žižkov TV Tower. Kundera called Prague a disappearing poem. I don’t know. I …

The BurdenI TOLD THEM I’d be the one to bring her down. Capiche? Fine, they said. Sure. You do that. But what’s the hurr...
08/17/2026

The Burden

I TOLD THEM I’d be the one to bring her down. Capiche? Fine, they said. Sure. You do that. But what’s the hurry now? Everything’s frozen solid up there. Capiche? It might as well be Ice Station Zebra up there and there’s no by God helicopter. I said that doesn’t matter and they said just leave her for a while, until a thaw....

I TOLD THEM I’d be the one to bring her down. Capiche? Fine, they said. Sure. You do that. But what’s the hurry now? Everything’s frozen solid up there. Capiche? It might as well be Ice Station Zeb…

Cheap ArtSummer is peak King — Stephen, not Charles or Frederik. I almost died swimming to the floating raft at Gilbert ...
08/10/2026

Cheap Art

Summer is peak King — Stephen, not Charles or Frederik. I almost died swimming to the floating raft at Gilbert Lake. The moon is jerking me around. Stars fall out of the sky like doorknobs and in every dream I’m in an abandoned hotel in the Catskills. First love, too late — and now… what to do; nothing much is exhilarating....

Summer is peak King — Stephen, not Charles or Frederik. I almost died swimming to the floating raft at Gilbert Lake. The moon is jerking me around. Stars fall out of the sky like doorknobs and in e…

You Just Want To Feel Better9:37 a.m. YOUR DICK GETS HARD every time you pass a pharmacy, a car wash, a cab stand, a hom...
08/04/2026

You Just Want To Feel Better

9:37 a.m. YOUR DICK GETS HARD every time you pass a pharmacy, a car wash, a cab stand, a homestyle diner, or a Starbucks now because you usually find them there, standing in line for their nonfat soy no-whip Caramel Macchiatos and the pre-work is easy: some banter, some pointed elevator looks, some lingering casual touch, and then maybe you exchange numbers and a few texts, but that’s not always necessary....

9:37 a.m. YOUR DICK GETS HARD every time you pass a pharmacy, a car wash, a cab stand, a homestyle diner, or a Starbucks now because you usually find them there, standing in line for their nonfat s…

The Right Angle Upwardafter the movie, riding elevatorsdown between three lobby floors:past the concessionsand the bar w...
07/27/2026

The Right Angle Upward

after the movie, riding elevatorsdown between three lobby floors:past the concessionsand the bar which would serve usthese sweet apple cocktails on Fridays between pictures when we were 16. the carpet the same as it wasthen, with probably popcornrinds we dropped still in place:why would anyone vacuuma cinema? people who cometo the movies don’t look at the floor....

after the movie, riding elevatorsdown between three lobby floors:past the concessionsand the bar which would serve usthese sweet apple cocktails on Fridays between pictures when we were 16. the car…

Mother Nature Rising“TRUST IS A MUST!” The sign was hung on the wall along with other, saccharine yet somehow frame-wort...
07/20/2026

Mother Nature Rising

“TRUST IS A MUST!” The sign was hung on the wall along with other, saccharine yet somehow frame-worthy aphorisms. “Babies are Citizens Too,” was a nurse favorite and reminded occupants of their reason for being in the birthing suite. These precepts turned signage were passed down from Mother Nature to her citizens. Like the ten commandments were to Moses, but her sayings were non-threatening and cutesy....

“TRUST IS A MUST!” The sign was hung on the wall along with other, saccharine yet somehow frame-worthy aphorisms. “Babies are Citizens Too,” was a nurse favorite and reminded occupants of their rea…

Spread Strawberries On A SleeveAnd you still tied to the buttery spread of a desert’s yellow light frustrated as your he...
07/14/2026

Spread Strawberries On A Sleeve

And you still tied to the buttery spread of a desert’s yellow light frustrated as your heel strikes sharp at the coarse-haired withers of your camel draped in Bedouin wool, stopping short, once again, to chew green shoots off a desert shrub. And me alone in a valley beneath this run of hills licking berryspread from a sleeve, humming Bowie tunes…...

And you still tied to the buttery spread of a desert’s yellow light frustrated as your heel strikes sharp at the coarse-haired withers of your camel draped in Bedouin wool, stopping short, once aga…

Can Furniture Affect The Soul?THERE IS A TOWN in Central Europe where I have spent some time. For many years I enjoyed s...
07/07/2026

Can Furniture Affect The Soul?

THERE IS A TOWN in Central Europe where I have spent some time. For many years I enjoyed strolling down to a café nestled under a large willow tree. I especially liked the old wooden furniture which I imagined must have been perhaps 200 years old. The walls were painted a dark green and lighting was dim. The corners of the tables had been worn down, so that they were somewhat rounded....

THERE IS A TOWN in Central Europe where I have spent some time. For many years I enjoyed strolling down to a café nestled under a large willow tree. I especially liked the old wooden furniture whic…

Small MammalsThe boss who expects more of you, is a small mammal, facing up to a bigger world. The people you love, are ...
06/30/2026

Small Mammals

The boss who expects more of you, is a small mammal, facing up to a bigger world. The people you love, are small mammals, living on a small blue rock, floating through space. We are thousands of miles from where we started, and no idea as to where we are going. There are no adults, just small mammals bimbling from disaster to disaster, …...

The boss who expects more of you, is a small mammal, facing up to a bigger world. The people you love, are small mammals, living on a small blue rock, floating through space. We are thousands of mi…

Gutting A BluntOn break, I walk the dirt trail behind the library branch and sneak a smoke. There’s some wild blackberry...
06/22/2026

Gutting A Blunt

On break, I walk the dirt trail behind the library branch and sneak a smoke. There’s some wild blackberry brambles back here, too. I pick some berries off and annoy some birds because they want what I have; I want what they have; we’re all some sort of screwed up animal with a weak wing. Have you ever tried hiding your hurt spot in a crowd?...

On break, I walk the dirt trail behind the library branch and sneak a smoke. There’s some wild blackberry brambles back here, too. I pick some berries off and annoy some birds because they want wha…

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