if only i knew that table rock that saddle gap i would lie me there until i too, turn to air … More
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jack, dog, awakes (my sky fall down)
my sky collapsed like a continent my voice broke in that thin air before you up-seen, then carbine-down those … More
Life-skills with Wesley
2-year old Wesley was perched on the reading room loveseat watching some kids channel. I had a jar of keto … More
Choir director daddy says to delicate debutante daughter
“Repeat after me ‘Daddy, you’re as dead as daddy dead can be’ end … More
Your anger will outlive your father
Too bad. So sad. Your angerWill outlive your dad. I’ll see to that.
Paper tiger father skips fire, goes straight to smoke
Array your daughter’s heart in a fistfuck of a Gordian knot
“okay, sweetie, press your luck.“
Grab yer daddy like a grudge
Burden of family, unassumed
Word on the street is that Don is going to move, again. I’ve heard authoritative sources say that Don’s recovery … More
6-year old shoots teacher
¿ What 6-year old can load a round into a clip, insert the clip, pull back the slide to chamber … More
Panic in the Baltimore Emergency Room w Ma … how much the casket?
Data-gap juggling ham-handed, fat-headed amateurs Shape-shifting them sands of speculation & surmise Experts in just the other room; whom among … More
Then Hong Kong, the snowboard, the concussion, the Matthew Sweet, the TS Eliot
@ LTF … Then Hong Kong, the snowboard concussion, the Matthew Sweet, the Peper-gone, Haley her mother, her migraines, her … More
Our son took wing without a prayer
Last night When the moon reeled When the gulfstream veered: Off the white cliff Took wordless wing Our son, sans … More
We are fine grasshoppers
We are a fine pair of grasshoppers, a-clutch the Craning, like us, Stalk Down the south branch Speargrass takes his … More
Un-jig, (traditional, as sung by the mother-in-law)
i had a daughter-in-law, where god often will put a jaw, that girl had a circular-saw she ripped my boy … More
Cicada, Corrida: at the fight, not fuck
Cicada, Corrida This just in: your reporter Kermit The Frog dateline: Columbia poolside: Like any, every, cock-blocked, Sriracha-sodden troubadour at … More
Back when refrigerators were iceboxes
Back when refrigerators were iceboxes, Dad worked for Texas Instruments When station wagons were bandaged in fake wood, Seatbelts never … More
Peter Pan ate our family
It is a matter of what to be used for. What will one be used for Chris as terrible spirit … More
Oh i remember you … showed me a painting one day ( there is no such dog )
the pain buys less drink every day only the high thin clouds of memory persist blown like stirred like coffee … More
Tailing that black dog them game trails very black night
In Lightfoot, Virginia Those child-bearing days That black dog and I rode them game trails out back, lights-free, blackout-drive She … More
We begged our children as bats, v2
We begged our children as bats To eat the insects of our existence To guide us deaf, lacking radar To … More
Sometimes we have to decide, is all
Someone really should update this. Make a better one. Add ASTRO BIRDY FRODO JASPER SOPHIE
Ally-dog and I rode the game trails out back, lights-free, blackout-drive
In Lightfoot, Virginia Those child-bearing days Ally-dog and I rode the game trails out back, lights-free. She led. I followed. … More
Less culpable at her funeral?
M, B In the spirit of helping out, thoughts below, longer & more poorly-organized than I’d hoped, but work calls … More
Expect Trainspotting
Expect Trainspotting What addict wouldn’t object to a disruption in her supply? This week’s firing of the John’s Hopkins Pain … More
Panic in the Baltimore waiting room …
Panic in the Baltimore waiting room … Gaps and shape-shifting sands of speculation & surmise. Who among us wonders “What … More
Different kettle of fish-facts
Braddock, re your question: For me it’s not a matter of which datapoints are in/accurate. For me the concern is … More
For want of some fucking Valium, or weed …
For want of some fucking Valium, or weed … For want of a nail: 1. Ma doesn’t eat. 2. Ma … More
Did Ma actually ever get off the smack?
Missed Ma opportunities
Missed opportunities for us, Ma Getting off the smack Dietician for Ma Physical therapy Flies-on-wall at TeleHealth video calls via … More
What does it take for the hip surgeon to say“yeah, maybe later”
What does it take for the ambitious hip surgeon to say “yeah, maybe later” to a patient w necrosis at … More
Tramadol’s for chumps
Ma’s catastrophic anxiety: Is this the best 22nd century Johns Hopkins can do? Really?
Dictator her
Braddock, bringing your reply to me to our sub-group here: “I hope you realised that she wasn’t fired from JH, … More