Oct 25
The Way It Happens the hum of the refrigerator coming from the laundry room reminds me I don’t have any beer but there’s whisky in the kitchen siting right there on the counter next to the stove and I know it won’t be much longer before I’m opening the bottle and pouring whiskey into my …
Oct 18
Dead Possum last night on the road in front of my house someone ran over a possum and now the body lies out there in the middle of the road with blood all around it this possum isn’t pretending to be dead this possum is truly dead not like the time my dog Sheena chased …
Oct 11
Saturday Morning Cartoons What ever happened to those Saturday morning cartoons? And eating a bowl of cereal while sitting in front of the TV? Scooby Doo, where the hell are you? Grape Ape. Grape Ape. So many things have changed. Loneliness Is a Bird Sitting in a Tree this morning I woke up to …
Aug 06
Now the Darkness now the darkness falling again pulling the light from the sky and I reach for the bottle on the table in front of me and it makes me think of the dumb joke about a frontal lobotomy and I laugh in spite of myself taking a long drink before putting the bottle …
May 31
Unknown Poet on a June night at the beginning of summer I started going back through some of the old magazines where I had some of my early poems published and when I read them over again after so many years had come and gone it was like discovering some unknown poet for the very …
Apr 24
Bigfoot She was enjoying the cheap red wine While I was drinking bottled beer Because I liked beer in bottles better than cans –When I die- I asked her –Will you come to my funeral— She glanced at me over the top of her glass –What the hell kind of question is that— –What— I …
