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Dandelions

Dandelions

Dandelions Kurt sat cold at the end of his driveway, a bowl of sugary offerings for the children settled in his lap. He treasured Halloween, but the festivity was winding down. Night had completely fallen. Most of the children and parents had come and gone. Parents with children dressed as pirates and superheroes and princesses, […]

Escalade Dreams

Escalade Dreams

Escalade Dreams I’m intrigued by certain correlations. Sometimes I’m struck by bits of information and try to fit them together like pieces of a puzzle. The human puzzle, I guess you could (pretentiously) say. One of these bits is the obsession with the Cadillac Escalade. Heck, I probably shouldn’t care. There’s better things to think […]

The Gamble

The Gamble

The Gamble Fitzi went all in on four Queens/8 high. Jimmy beat him with a straight flush of hearts. He raked Fitzi’s chips into his pile. “You buying back in?” Jimmy asked. Jimmy had all the luck. It confounded Fitzi because Jimmy didn’t appear to be much of a man of God. He didn’t even […]

Lab-Grown Meat

Lab-Grown Meat

Lab-Grown Meat There’s an online petition to stop lab-grown meat from being served in schools. When I heard about it, I needed to know more. The petition lists reasons why serving lab-grown meat in schools is a bad idea. These reasons are kind of boring, so I scrolled down to where people have posted videos […]

Fingernails

Fingernails

Fingernails Sometimes, when I cross the line to Indiana, I stop at Howie’s truck stop diner for a pork tenderloin sandwich. See, I was born and raised in Indiana. Now I live just across the state line. But, because I’m a Hoosier by birth, when I go over to Indiana and pass by Howie’s, I […]

Category: poetry

Misery
poetry

Misery

Misery men grown accustomed to their misery learn to love it as a dog loves the familiar jangle of its … Continue reading Misery

Spare Change
poetic ramblings, poetry

Spare Change

Spare Change we’d be in the city and sometimes i’d give the bums change and sometimes i wouldn’t even when … Continue reading Spare Change

Satisfaction of Failure
poetry

Satisfaction of Failure

Satisfaction of Failure taking control of your own happiness will likely end in failure leaving control of your happiness to … Continue reading Satisfaction of Failure

Solitary Man
poetry

Solitary Man

Solitary Man a solitary man in a cool dank and dripping concrete cell grows accustomed to the smell of his … Continue reading Solitary Man

Sympathy
poetry

Sympathy

Sympathy it’s okay to hate an abuser especially the abuser of someone or something we love so how then to … Continue reading Sympathy

Cage
poetry

Cage

Cage the artist joyfully submits to its cage the bars and lock preventing the beasts outside from mauling the act … Continue reading Cage

Dream of White Underwear
poetic ramblings, poetry

Dream of White Underwear

Dream of White Underwear in the dream my mother gifted me a pack of extra large underwear it was nice … Continue reading Dream of White Underwear

Feral Child
poetic ramblings, poetry

Feral Child

Feral Child a feral child reared by goats wolves or monkeys will not know what it is to be man … Continue reading Feral Child

Common Sense
poetic ramblings, poetry

Common Sense

Common Sense as kids there was one a few years older than us that i looked up to since he … Continue reading Common Sense

Submissive
poetry

Submissive

Submissive the weak and submissive delightfully yield to the prefab rules of a god or gods the submissive delightfully yield … Continue reading Submissive

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