Category Archives: poems & short jabs

May 10, 2013 · 5:14 pm

full disclosure

Full Disclosure

After the
house guests
left I
watched
Romeo &
Juliet on
DVD &
wept.

I suppose
it’s a
sign of
progress that
I can
do this
now without
putting cigarettes
out on
my arms.

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· 4:50 pm

advice to live by

Céline | Louis-Ferdinand Destouches

Advice to Live By

Bukowski’s
“I don’t
hate people I
just seem to
feel better
when they’re
not around”
has become a
brick in
the cornerstone
of my
outlook,
right up
there with
Miller’s
“You may
as well
have your
say they’re
going to
shit on you
anyway”
&
Celine’s
“I piss
on it all
from a
considerable
height.”

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April 30, 2013 · 2:39 pm

running races

Running Races

There was
a time
in my
40s when
I ran
10-K races
in cut-off
jeans &
down-at-the-heels
Adidas with
a six-pack
at the
finish line
just to
watch
the guys
in fancy
Spandex outfits
& hundred-dollar
shoes cave
in when I
overtook them
in the
last hundred yards.

Thirty years
later,
thru with
both running
& drinking,
a cigarette
in one
hand &
a mocha
in the
other, I
watch their
sons running
up the
hill I
write on
in the
same fancy
outfits
with the
same grim
determination.