Teachers

I’ve encountered some great teachers lately. I went out Friday night. It took me about an hour to decide what to wear. My back had gone “oh my aching back” again, making me feel about 10,000 years old, and I couldn’t find anything that made me look so fabulous and interesting that it distracted from […]

Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle

Kurt Cobain died when I was a senior in high school. I was burning incense (I was in high school, as I said), and the incense caught my calendar on fire, burning it up to the date that he died. It was spooky. And I was sad. I had heard about a lot of artists […]

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 […]