Relics

I had a lot of vicodin left over. Unfortunately, it didn’t do much for me. A shot of whiskey does me more good. It’s just been sitting in the cabinet behind my shower, in a little sky-blue plastic basket that was left behind by the previous tenant. I also had a lot of neurontin, the […]

Aglow

Glow worms are as real as squirrels. And all this time I thought they were like unicorns or mermaids. I was by the river, crunching around in the dark with a lantern in one hand. I turned it off to see the stars, and instead, the glow worms called. I saw fewer stars there, out […]

The Find

I found a dinosaur bone. It was half uncovered in the schoolyard. I was quite the scientist then. I vacillated between astronaut, archeologist, and chemist as dream jobs. I was surprised that a dinosaur bone was lying there in the outfield of the softball area of a Kansas elementary school. I had heard that most […]

Selling Yourself Down the River

The path to salvation is paved with pre-made, frozen lunches. Right? With thriftiness. With thinking ahead. It took a long time for me to recognize these notions as middle class mantras. You repeat them enough, you realize they are nonsense. There is no protection from the future. I suspect that if I copy enough vocabulary […]