May 01
You out here Yeah, you out here making fun of millionaires in space but have you canceled your Prime membership? If not, it’s you paying for it, all of it with your money and your time and your energy and your eyes and you will go nearly blind but won’t be able to pay for …
Apr 30
Age 49, Buying My First Electric Guitar after Gerald Stern’s “Grapefruit” I am pulling into the short wide driveway, There’s his red truck with ladders affixed, There is the pole barn he said to look for, a sign On the door reading Come on Inside in cursive, And there he is, the seller, a good …
Apr 30
Aloha Airlines Ticket In the pouch of Papa’s camera, I find carbon copied airline tickets with just his kids’ names on them, and I remember seeing a sepia picture of three skinny brown children, churched up for the flight, squeezed into starched clothes and framed with boxy, proportional suitcases at their feet. Their smiles hide …
Apr 29
The Unpredictability of Fate Or An Open Letter to Billy Zane A wiser man than I once said that fate was a monkey. I’m inclined to agree. I read a news article the other day about a local man who died of a hatchet chop to the throat last week while on “a journey …
Apr 28
Abilities His wife thinks he goes wandering in the park to watch the girls walk their dogs. She imagines him redreaming the unbreakable legs, the jangling breasts that look forward and not down, hips that have remained mindful of use, eyes that have not seen disillusion; their sway and tramp as they manage to keep …
Apr 28
Cannons In the winter, the bathhouse and beach are closed and no one bothers to rake up the leaves blowing across the parking lot, and the only person here is you, thinking about the 4th of July when this place was full and the 4ths when you were a kid and your family would always …
Apr 27
Inspiration Larry Marks was not overly troubled when he realized he’d gone three days without anything resembling an inspiration. Nor did he fret when his once-in-a-blue-moon dry period stretched to a week, then to two. Only when the feeling of emptiness persisted after a full month did he grow concerned. Though others thought of …
Apr 26
Protons and Neurons Despite the many warnings, I continue to date the woman with a gold tooth. I like that she’s not overly overtly affectionate. She has a Jewish sense of humor which always draws me in. The gypsy flair with scented scarves and swishy skirts, intoxicates flirtatiously. Her eclectic palette takes us to diverse …
Apr 26
A Dream of Joe Peschi and Kenny Eto A bullet handloaded with old gunpowder zipped around Kenny Eto’s head between skin and skull like a tiny Matchbox Trans-am. He walked from the ER with two band-aids, front and back, then testified just like they thought he would even though he wasn’t going to at first. …
Apr 25
getting lucky they were a tag team mother & daughter lounge act cruising out of town low life’s conventioneers sad sack losers & their friends hoping to hook up for the night wedding rings safely tucked inside electric shaving kits they thought Once inside the motel room getting lucky would mean fortunate to leave town …
