Waiting For My Son To Call

There was a 30% chance of rain this dreary morningbut it came anyway to perfectly match my mood. I miss you, my darling. My first love. My only. The rain is my tears.The pattering puddles are my splintered reflections.The sky, grey and dark-my heart.The clouds, well, they’re nebulousjust like us. We used to be apart …

I Still Fear The Root of All Evil

I cannot eat blackberries; all I taste is the thornsfrom the roadside ditch you drove us to wherethe black snake slithered over my foot and I cried and you laughed and I was 8. [Everyone occasionally does things that hurt others. But some do so far more often- and with far more consequences than the …

Stepfather

Shake against thy shadow to be poisonedI will shake no more from theeFor I have dug up all the rootsConnecting you and me. You are the worlds’ distempered guestWhen the tree began to bud, I daily made my desperate pleaThat you avert your gaze awayI will shake no more from thee. I severed all the …

1/30/14 (4:15 PM)

The winter afternoon shadows falleerily this time of dayI muttered to myselfsomething dark and un-precociousWhat then would there beto write about?I am not gifted with the artof making others laugh-neither with much ofan imaginationand I made myself laughand I took myself a concept:No one was going to tell meI shouldn’t stay such a tragedyalthough I …

Inpatient at Shepard Pratt Schizophrenic Rant

11/14/13 Day 1 Written while waiting on admission: So I’m in this atrium like a cul-de-sac but it’s hospitalrooms instead of houses and James lives in #3 on theend and he has CP or something he walks bowlegged and screamsand yells instead of talking and he laughs at his own jokes andI wish I could …

Shadow People

12/27/2013 When the sun resigns to slumberwe will meet againgathering as a Sunday morning funeral.Start a journey of old spirits-falling heads. Gliding against the walls and ceilingas they vacillate between the3rd and 4th dimensions-I see reverberations. Last night the chamber was full-barely enough room for me andsomeone knocked on the door this time. A lonely …

Readings from Philosophy, Acrostically

Extracted from Readings in Philosophy EuthyphroBy Plato Resorting to a weighing machineEuthyphro! How little does the common herd know by the nature of right and truth.An action before the king as I am-Deny the existence of old ones; this is the ground of his indictment.I suppose; it is true, theNotion of which piety is only …

Consciousness, Poetically

Extracted from "Consciousness"Gilbert Ryle I was conscious that the furniture had been rearrangedto indicate a certain nebulousness and consequent inarticulateness of the apprehension.What we are conscious of, in this sense, may be a physical fact ora fact about someone else’s state of mindbut in a certain way we will not recognize them. A walker engaged …

Wrath

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. Romans 1:18 Something is exposing disentombed clubmanships-this is what the heterocysts do monadically.The manager is gone.Gone, corrupt and the stain on the glass shows wherein.You are villainous.Rising from the world another time …

08/28/20

When you know shitunfortunatelyyou know shit.When you snap that triangle-they go everywhere. A star died and gave birth to me,Stars die every time a person is born.It must be.We do not yet understand the true nature of physics.That is the point. I am nothing special.I am all. This morning- it was unusual.I walked to the …