I Don’t Wanna [Insert Undesirable Activity]

Hello, neighbors!  I look like like shit right now.  I'll own it. Well, technically that was on Halloween, when we got a snowstorm here in Chicago.  HO HO HO.  In any case, I'm gonna launch into Whiny Adolescent Mode, because I need to vent, and that's the easy way to do it.  This is why …

Notes of A Mad Blogger

Welcome! If I may repeat myself, I recently (as of 10/25/2019) repurposed my old, basically dormant blog (fka WAR DURING LIFETIME) to be a (mostly) music blog.  I have a large archive of stories, poems and essays here, for now at least.  But due to my obsession with music and my proclivity for writing, it …

Lydia Davis: Dynamite Dame

At first I thought my first thought.Then well-diggers dug out the moat.But the well-wishers tugged my first thought.Rotting in a trash-dump,the sunspewed spots.  I queued up the recorder.‘On second thought,’ the seconds thought.Tall tales talk to pale reporters.Same stories they in the stone-age bought. 

swollen

Have you picked up the paper lately? We've got the bread, but no fixin's. Wait, shush, what's that missing? A dash of decency lenient and stately. Let's hack off my left middle finger. Have I even earned rights to a typwriter? My thumb is worn to a nub from this lighter. Let's ask Octavio, he's …

for the Chilean miners (‘gift to the media)

The Importance of Digits Thumbing through my bankbook I am shocked by the importance of digits, taking a look and finding a stimulant and My fingertips plead for another number of some worth that should be where there’s one unnervingly empty space. I swerved and my face met my toes; my mug froze and flaked …