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Like and Share

Like and Share Every day I read memes instructing me to “like and share if I agree.” Every day I receive memes about the plights, persecutions and woes of the elderly, the poor, fetuses, the planet, pets, political and religious affiliations and our troops. Every day I receive memes shared or forwarded by people I […]

Nursing Home

Over his cooked carrots, Ronald asked the rest of the table who the new guy was. One them said it was Nathanial Holmes. Ron said he knew Nathanial from school. He asked which room Nate had been put in. Ron was told it was Room 122B. Nate was sharing it with the one legged man […]

School Zone

School Zone Jack smashed the alarm clock. It was 6 a.m. Jack, like every other weekday morning, rolled out of bed and poured himself some whiskey. He drank so much whiskey so fast, by 6:45 he was hammered, according to plan. Then, like every other weekday morning, Jack grabbed the keys to his prized ’72 […]

Sisyphus

Sisyphus unlike the cursed sisyphus we have choices regarding which hill we carry the burden of the stone what they fail to explain well enough is there’s different slopes we can choose from day to night night to day for going up and down season after season there’s mountains passing through years offering changes to […]

All Gone

All Gone the roller rinks the drive-in theaters the arcades the big top tents the spook houses have all burned down leaving us with churches with arid sermons and collection baskets that are never ever full enough gone are uncle al and captain windy bozo the clown and captain kangaroo leaving us in inescapable traffic […]

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Caricatures

Caricatures the obnoxiously affected effete and effeminate caricature of the intellectual asks rhetorically will you raise the fist or take … Continue reading Caricatures