There is this homeless-looking dude sitting outside the cafe window. When he glares at me, I nod obediently, and then slam down my computer charger, out of frustration. I’m at the cafe because we’re out of power at my house after a rampant little episode of powerful vituperation on the part of the gods in […]

I haven’t seen Ben in about half an hour. He was up there singing “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” on karaoke and then a couple minutes later I saw that dark-haired, tattooed girl pressing her tit against him and talking to him. Sure we’d hooked up a couple times. I remember really liking how […]

With each new pressing day The charms and ornaments of life Float up to their consciousnesses and Eventually become detritus, pure Syntax to be sneezed on and Discarded and sometimes You See a piece Of a subservient of a sum and You are not in the wrong but it is Life that has made catharsis […]

The paradigm of life Tells us to achieve and To own and One thing we’re Supposed to own Is people — wives, Husbands, nieces and Florists but Ennui and The erratic Flow like the Cedar Rapids And Nothing Will Smile at you Like the one-eyed, crooked Paraplegic lobster On the hot, Sweltering sidewalk who Can […]

All over the baseball league In every game They were denouncing the disease “ALS” Which stands for something Of which I’m not sure . And now here’s this sanguine dude With a bizarre, contrived facial expression Ejaculating any number of bland, Stock responses to questions, . He funded the project, . He wants to beat […]

It is A prank call To your libido As you withstood six blows And they got you with the seventh On the Sabbath day Nothing running free and The flesh hound cowering All grayed from Noise and tremor

I drive to the library with high hopes, A car pulling out of the narrow, Curved exit right as I’m Trying to pull in. . I walk in to the scene Of a man talking very loudly To his four-year-old kid Who was, himself, Very loud. . I walk back to 813. . I look […]

I once met a man on the street and In an explosion of light He gave me a smile, Some humor, And a piece of advice That stuck with me forever As my beacon in life. . I would see that man at the grocery store and There would always be somebody in front of […]

I’m living out here in the middle of nowhere Two miles south of South Bend Because in town there are burglaries in Every neighborhood I can afford. . It’s ok, in general, Nice and comfortable, But sometimes when I’m heading out of town at night After work Into the endless black abyss I get this […]

*Sunshine Sammy returns: “Why don’t you wanna fu** Missy Elliott, di**head?” . Why don’t you wanna fu** Missy Elliott, di**head? You too good to fu** her there, homie? You have to come on to her so we can sell this song that goes “Put your thing down / Flip it and reverse it”. Whew! You’re […]