In 1981, Ricky Ray Rector asked the prison guards not to remove the dishes from his last supper, because he would want his dessert when he returned. Not comprehending the full extent of his punishment, Ricky was executed by lethal injection. Would you execute a convict who cannot establish the difference between reality and fantasy? [...]
Broken fire-red fingers
claw to a distantly fading morning –
the desperate scramble
to escape a crumbling ruin:
Night.
A vacuous event horizon,
exponential in pointing to collapse –
that critical moment
of an in-folding probability:
Black.
Hawks propose plausible flights of fancy
until their negation by uproarious hunter shouts –
their lofty tangents
crashing under gravity’s wrath:
Dead.
Earthbound on a spiral string
the final turbulent moments expand into chaos [...]
… this is not a short story, poem or lyrics submission… this is a rant, so block your eyes and ears!
When I was working on my nutty, unreadable, sci-fi novel, one of the sections of my book was titled “Abacus Theory.” WTF does that even mean you may be wondering right about now…
Well, let’s [...]
My window faced a red brick building that housed a Vietnamese restaurant on the main floor and apartments, like ours, on the second and third floors. The only view I could get was if I looked up beyond the roof of the building and occasionally see clouds, stars, the edge of the moon at around [...]
Feet slipped into warm bunny slippers
Hands carrying hot cocoa with fluffy
Marshmallows slipping over the top
Outside the window snow falls silently,
Its soft sloshing sound as it hits the ground
Calls me forth to play, but the wind keeps me back
