This is an ex-poem

This used to be a poem, but now it’s not. I tried to make it pretty, but it didn’t turn … More

Some Costly Free Advice

Each new door is an opening on another dawn. Yawn. I sing, “It seems to me I’ve heard that song … More

A Four Leaf Clover Kind of Love

So I blew the first one, made a bad decision.Not a rookie mistake; newbies don’t choke so hard.We were getting … More

Some London Aloha

My sister and I are headed for the Royal Observatory, and we’ve decided to take a ride on the Thames … More

A Plea, not a Poem

I see it everywhere nowadays, some people becoming whom they were born to be, but so many others leaving the … More

The Family Recipe

I’m not sure where all he learned how to do it, but my father was a master cook. In fact … More

Pretty Bird

I don’t see them displayed in tiny cages at restaurants and stores anymore, the way I remember them, confined and … More

Beautiful Rubbish

My mom used to call it “beautiful rubbish,” the red-orange flowers from our African Tulip trees, littering the lawn in … More

Learning This Right Now

No need to save anything on a board anymore, black or white, ephemeral chalk or marker. I’ve seen it in … More

Wrong

I stared at the block of numbers on the board. I recognized all of them; I could count. I did … More

Rough Cut

So we begin with sunny skies, a cartoon-like rainbow,scattered puffy clouds, the cotton ball kind,with all the flora and fauna … More

It’s All Work

You would think so, right, that during the downtime one of us might have done it, but we never have. … More

I’ll Be Your Roadie

You’ve brought us to The Golden Palace Restaurant in order for you to assess the plausibility of bidding on a … More

I Get Good Prices

It was a big moment in his life, when he first learned where he could buy a watch at a … More

Never Fear

I’m at the age where nostalgia’s candleburns bright.The yearning for something from the pastcan beunbearable at times,the bursting chest and … More

Including Plagiarized Passages on Sections of Skin

to the reticular dermisshow a cystic cavitylined by attenuated squamous epithelium.A prominent granular layer is presentwith overlying compact, lamellated corneocytes.The … More

Last Night

After sunset last night, I sat in the darkin my garage, listening to the sound of carsrunning up and down … More

A Month of Sundays

It’s what’s meant to be a long time.A month of Sundays does not exist,unless you’re retired,in which case it’s more … More

Oath

Okay, the next time I’ll have taken lessons,boned up lots on all your bout rules.Only the French could explain whythe … More

Today

When your legs moved like wheels,the pounding exhilarating,arms pumping, well-oiled pistons,remember the more and more of a young blood rush. Such … More