DAYDREAMS OF DENIS BAKER

Polly Wallace was one of those girls who, like most of the thirteen year old girls in her class, would doodle, with hearts, the name of high school heartthrob, Denis Baker, over and over again in a journal she carried with her wherever she went. She was great at blowing bubbles with chewing […]

CLOWNS FROWN SOMETIMES

I wish I was a clown. How great would that be? Always be happy and in the mood to put a smile on everyone’s face. That would be the best. I can never do that. I wish I could, but I can’t. But maybe if I get a little red nose and a raged hat. […]

FLAMINGOS

Maybe this is just a dream, right? Like, maybe I’m just gonna wake up and open myself into believing that everything that could have gone wrong, would have gone wrong. And this is just some little way my brain has to cope. Or no, maybe this is just a little puddle. We’re living in […]

MIRRORS AND MONSTERS, BEASTS AND BOATS

“Look up” they say, to the heavens for a GOD. “Look down” they cry to the DEVIL down beneath. There are no gods. There are no devils. There is only us, the true devils of this land, playing with the idea that we are all gods. And to that I say nothing. Same as all […]

IN THE BUSINESS OF CHANGE

So here I am again, once again. Why? Why am I strolling this musky city night with the howling and hooting of the local crazies? Why must I linger like a dead fly atop a hobo’s finger or eye? Too quick to kill and too slow to escape far far away. Well here it goes. […]

The Sorrowful Story of the Captain Who Memorized the Sea

A man who sat, in a tattered tough bar Wearing a worn washed coat That he got when he was the captain of a tall tin boat He now sits in the corner And smoke his pipe Only with tobacco that put up heavy fights He is old, he is sorrow He knows about the […]

GLITTERED GIRL

A glittered girl with too much eye makeup Wanted me to pay her so she wouldn’t get up She was a base price of 25 for her time And 45 more for touching her breasts And other areas near her chest It was 75 for a kiss with 95 for licks 100 got you her […]

THE IN-BETWEEN

You know, you never hear about the ‘in-between’. In one scene, we see Clark Kent. He finds out he has powers, and in the next scene he is Superman. Saving people like it comes naturally. Or to put it another way; I always read up on bands, or film directors, even sports players: […]

THE BATTLE OF ADAM & CAIN

‘We are at war’ said Adam to Cain And the Sun laughed because he understood just the same Adam looked to sky and yelled, ‘why doesn’t he listen? I try and try but he refuses to let me teach him’ The Sun looked down and chuckled at Adam’s frustration ‘And I imagine you listened with […]

PUFF

Hello. I’m sorry I missed you. I would rather do this in person. But we both know I was never good at that. I decided to take a plane somewhere. I think it’s best if I see the world for a while. Maybe this is because I changed so much and we changed so much. […]

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