My sister and I were at upstate New York for Thanksgiving. During dinner, Heaven, our cousin’s six year old daughter, wanted to know why I didn’t talk. My sister explained that I was deaf and used sign language instead of speaking. Heaven then asked: “Why does he have a mouth if he can’t talk?”
Entries from February 2008
February 26, 2008
Journal entry circa 54 R.A.
Using a meticulously honed razor, I cut a square piece of parchment paper exactly in half. Removing one half of the paper, I then proceeded to cut the remaining piece of paper into half. Repeating the same procedure as previously described, I whittled away that piece of parchment until it was too small to handle [...]
February 22, 2008
Idle Evenings
Two men drink beer on a balcony in a high-rise pressed close to another vertical apartment complex. Bob declares himself a champion of the spit, his loogie’s arch challenged by none. Dick, indignant, denies the possibility, saying that no spitball has soared further than his. So they stand, grown men, hacking and hawking, until a [...]
February 21, 2008
Meandering through the Mountains
You are driven and ambitious and tend to make radical moves to reach your goals. You are a thoughtful and cautious person. You like to think about your method, seeking to pursue your goal in the most effective way. You like following the rules and being objective. You are precise and meticulous, and like to [...]
February 21, 2008
Lunar Ruminations
Last night, with my nipples about to fall off in the subzero twilight, I watched the earth’s penumbra slowly turn the moon from a bright coin to a fingernail sliver. Saturn and Regulus glittered brightly, as an aside.
Gazing at the spectacle, I wondered what the ancients made of this celestial event, when men on their [...]
February 19, 2008
Midnight Canine
The sleeping dog. All furred twitches and rumblings. Unconscious lift of nose exposing rotted tooth. Still. Gentle dog of the house, wild hateful thing out on the roads of runners and bicyclists. Is his hour up? Age or civil punishment accorded to the fanged indulgence of base impulses upon sight of pumping sneakers or squeaking [...]
February 19, 2008
Miscellaneous #11
The oilman put down his Black Russian and spread his grimed hands, shrugging: “The crude abides…”
It takes a wrong and a wrong to make a right or a simple clockwise turning of the steeringwheel.
The road slick taunted him. He braked, just to see. Tires slid silently over black-sheened ice.
Pen dragon, harnessed [...]
February 19, 2008
Draculations
Having neglected to bring oaken stakes to pierce the villainous bloodsucker’s heart, Van Helsing panics at the imminent descent of the sun and searches for other means of dispatching the monster. Desperately scanning the contents of the god-forsaken catacomb, then on his own person, his hand touches upon an object long and hard and rough [...]
February 19, 2008
Dirty Messages
They send out messages in parcels of shit, little pieces of plastic rolled up and swallowed. When the acid factory’s done its task and beckons the body pay its due at the porcelain throne, a simple tap of the flush handle sends the message expressly down a warren of pipes whose outlets into the septic [...]
February 19, 2008
A Fine Simmer
A load of crock. Take a look at. Spy this. A crock’s load. Stoppered from a crock loaded. Crock. Crock. Load me! Crock! Unpalatable contents squelching after dinner, get a load of that! No? Ah. Get a load off! That. What is the rationale behind the dropping off of a load in said crock -unhygienic [...]
February 19, 2008
Discussions of the Passage of a Pervasive Eventuality That Is Acceded a Dimension
X: It is a corridor, a single linear construction with an undeniable and indefinable point A that culminates at the concrete reality of present point B.
Y: It is a spiral, not unlike the helical nature of DNA; congruent points coincide.
Z: A sea, that’s what it is, an evolving and revolving sea that froths forth permutations [...]
February 12, 2008
Graphic Novel Bender
I’ve gone and done it. Discarding my interest in novels, I turned to graphic publications which I perused with abandon, the orders racking up in my local library holds unit. Mind you I read a whole lot more than I’ve listed, but I figured these deserved a mentioning. I tremendously enjoyed many of those stories, [...]
