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We went to a local theater production of Little Shop of Horrors. The talking plant looked like a guy in a beanbag, and t...
18/09/2025

We went to a local theater production of Little Shop of Horrors. The talking plant looked like a guy in a beanbag, and the singing was off-key. I didn’t mind because I was with you. After the show, you mistook shasta daisies vs. ox-eye daisies at the restaurant. I chuckled and suggested you should learn your flowers — a modest proposal....

We went to a local theater production of Little Shop of Horrors. The talking plant looked like a guy in a beanbag, and the singing was off-key. I didn’t mind because I was with you. After the show,…

Once more I see myself, 11 years old, standing at the corner of the lane, and gazing through the wire-mesh fence. My thr...
17/09/2025

Once more I see myself, 11 years old, standing at the corner of the lane, and gazing through the wire-mesh fence. My three companions stand beside me. It’s late summer, early evening, the sky a bold and ever-deepening blue, the day seeming to go on without end. But gathering in the alleys and in the eaves of the houses, around the doorsteps and the feet of the lampposts, shadows are thickening, and already a scent of autumn sharpens the air....

Once more I see myself, 11 years old, standing at the corner of the lane, and gazing through the wire-mesh fence. My three companions stand beside me. It’s late summer, early evening, the sky a bol…

-1- Enter the Adverb Queen Daisy trotted into my office then up the small critter ramp that runs from the floor to my de...
16/09/2025

-1- Enter the Adverb Queen Daisy trotted into my office then up the small critter ramp that runs from the floor to my desktop (Cats ignore it, they’d rather leap up and give me a heart attack). She began speaking without a preamble....

-1- Enter the Adverb Queen Daisy trotted into my office then up the small critter ramp that runs from the floor to my desktop (Cats ignore it, they’d rather leap up and give me a heart attack). She…

Man, in my neck of the woods, color still rules; White, you all right, Brown, stick around, Black, get back. And sometim...
15/09/2025

Man, in my neck of the woods, color still rules; White, you all right, Brown, stick around, Black, get back. And sometimes we be so black we be blue. And the rules flip on you. Sometimes they do a back flip when you blue-black....

Man, in my neck of the woods, color still rules; White, you all right, Brown, stick around, Black, get back. And sometimes we be so black we be blue. And the rules flip on you. Sometimes they do a …

For Extremely Intelligent Children at Any Age “Everything is poetic that confesses.” – Jorge Luis Borges “Delia, oh Deli...
14/09/2025

For Extremely Intelligent Children at Any Age “Everything is poetic that confesses.” – Jorge Luis Borges “Delia, oh Delia / I can’t believe / you wanted all them rounders / never had time for me. / All the friends I ever had / are gone.” – Dylan, “Delia,” World Gone Wrong “Let us go then, you and I…” – T.S. Eliot…...

                             For Extremely Intelligent Ch…

The world has always been a snippy place (for instance, the title of this wrap was sneered at me by my boss in 1981. You...
13/09/2025

The world has always been a snippy place (for instance, the title of this wrap was sneered at me by my boss in 1981. You can’t say stuff like that to employees anymore, but I am certain that the feeling is still felt). In big cities, especially, people go out in public with war faces on. Regardless, you used to be able to count on a reasonable degree of faked manners from clerks when you were shopping (I was often one of those clerks)....

The world has always been a snippy place (for instance, the title of this wrap was sneered at me by my boss in 1981. You can’t say stuff like that to employees anymore, but I am certain that the fe…

The feeling had been growing inside of Henrik Hammersmith for quite a while now. Damn construction noise. Start again. T...
12/09/2025

The feeling had been growing inside of Henrik Hammersmith for quite a while now. Damn construction noise. Start again. The feeling had been growing inside of Henrik Hammersmith for quite a while now. What was that feeling? Sip of iced coffee. Swallow pills. That fan feels nice. Muffled car honking outside window. Eyes teary. Start again. The feeling had been growing inside of Henrik Hammersmith for quite a while now....

The feeling had been growing inside of Henrik Hammersmith for quite a while now. Damn construction noise. Start again. The feeling had been growing inside of Henrik Hammersmith for quite a while no…

Ian preferred to drink alone, whether it was booze or coffee he was craving. That's when he did his best thinking. So wh...
11/09/2025

Ian preferred to drink alone, whether it was booze or coffee he was craving. That's when he did his best thinking. So when local rents and a low-paying service job (the bitter reward for following his passion in college) obliged him to take in roommates, he often found himself at one of the neighborhood's less trendy cafés. The kind where the patrons kept mostly to themselves....

Ian preferred to drink alone, whether it was booze or coffee he was craving.  That’s when he did his best thinking.  So when local rents and a low-paying service job (the bitter rew…

The month before my thirteenth birthday, my parents' marriage stumbled. Its arms pinwheeled for balance, and it might ha...
10/09/2025

The month before my thirteenth birthday, my parents' marriage stumbled. Its arms pinwheeled for balance, and it might have recovered if not for the present I got. It was that seemingly insignificant little thing that pushed their marriage from behind, sending it over the edge of no return to land chest first onto the steel rebar of divorce below....

The month before my thirteenth birthday, my parents’ marriage stumbled. Its arms pinwheeled for balance, and it might have recovered if not for the present I got. It was that seemingly insign…

Thor shall put to death the Midgard Serpent, and shall stride awaynine paces from that spot; then shall he fall dead to ...
09/09/2025

Thor shall put to death the Midgard Serpent, and shall stride awaynine paces from that spot; then shall he fall dead to the earth, because of the venom which the Snake has blown at him.Völuspá, Stanza 55 The Æsir gods sat around the great table in Valhalla’s dining hall, waiting. Some took desultory sips of the mead in their drinking horns, yet there was no wisdom to be gained from the magical mead, for all that remained to be learned was the outcome of Odin’s ride to consult with the embalmed head of Mimir about the meaning of recent portents....

Thor shall put to death the Midgard Serpent, and shall stride awaynine paces from that spot; then shall he fall dead to the earth, because of the venom which the Snake has blown at him.Völuspá, Sta…

“Linda, I’ve something to tell you,” “What’s that?” “I’ve got a new boyfriend.”...
08/09/2025

“Linda, I’ve something to tell you,” “What’s that?” “I’ve got a new boyfriend.”...

“Linda, I’ve something to tell you,” “What’s that?” “I’ve got a new boyfriend.”

It's been said that Britain is a country overburdened by history. I'm not very sure what 'overburdened' means in that co...
07/09/2025

It's been said that Britain is a country overburdened by history. I'm not very sure what 'overburdened' means in that context. But my guess is that, for my generation born seventy-odd years ago, it refers to the enduring damage wreaked by The First World War....

It’s been said that Britain is a country overburdened by history. I’m not very sure what ‘overburdened’ means in that context. But my guess is that, for my generation born s…

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