A Rude Awakening

I woke up and tried to rub the sleep from my eyes. The computer screen looked like a blurry mess. There seemed to be some sort of strange mathematical simulation on the screen. I remember writing the algorithm and telling the computer to do the calculations for me. Maybe I slept? Did I dream? Do [...]

As the light goes out

it encloses and pulls down, down into the reaches a place where light itself is afraid to go the light scatters and dulls grows dark as it too succumbs the depth is crushing blood rushing for escape heat is a word here a concept an idea not a real thing cold is what rules here [...]

Interstate Tommorrow

The future comes roaring forward like an 18 wheeler-Mack-truck barreling down the interstate. Stepping through adulthood and responsibilities like a tap dancer with guns aimed toward his head. There is no moment but this one There is also this one. But birds don't sing and cause flowers to bloom because some man-child jumped the line [...]

Could you?

Could you believe in An atheist minister If he overflowed with compassion If he held his heart bare If he held holy his brothers and sisters If he was a flawed and hopeful man Could you follow someone Who didn't know the way If he stopped to ask for directions If he packed his GPS [...]

Moloch

Moloch loves like a tsunami crushing cities. Tiny, squishy, self-important apes darting through a neon canopy of iron and glass trees invading an angry sky embracing Moloch. Making love to Moloch of promises and digits on a counter driven by sorcery of smiling men with teeth ground to points. Moloch has claimed death as his [...]

At the bottom, but looking up — Shameless Self-promotion

With the coming christmas, my son had a really strange thing that he asked me to do.  He wanted me to make an ebook copy of my poetry and stories. He also wanted me to record myself reading some of them. That got me thinking about what I wanted to get my parents for christmas. [...]

The world ended and no one noticed

The night was cool but sticky like wearing damp clothes. The city had mostly gone to sleep leaving street lamps and stars as the only lights left. Maybe it had rained earlier, maybe not. It tended to rain fairly often here. Short bursts where the sky would open and seas would pour out and then, [...]

Not broken enough

The raven-haired and dishevelled shrew looked at me over her cluttered, disgusting desk she held my file and read my nameshe asked me to remember numbers and names She flipped through my file she talked at me and barely looked at me I was a fly pin through me held to paper my name stolen [...]

You are not the protagonist

There you were, 42 armed U.S. Marshall men and women chasing after you in the rain you were gasping for air as the water turned the dirt into sludge holes gaping as the liquid-metal death machine from the future said that life was like a box of chocolates chocolates that are produced by strange squat [...]

In Construction

To my nephew and sister, who will always move full steam ahead.