Apologetic Poems: Poems Written Under Duress. To begin, David Lir’s got himself a crazy sense of humor, the likes of which could cure cancer or bring world peace if only more people were aware of it. The masses run around like blind mice in mazes, missing the key turns that would bring them to …
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It didn’t matter how many times we’d been to the beach. We could look out at that ocean, play in it, skip stones across it, collect shells from it, get sunburned next to it, and still never know exactly what was down there underneath the waves. There were different life forms, much more different than …
The secret to staying young is always telling the time by hours, minutes, and even seconds. Think about it. Give a child a digital watch and then ask them the time, what do they do? They tell you the hour, the minutes, and then the seconds as they tick by, “…forty-three, forty-four, forty-five…” Middle-aged people …
I don’t usually enjoy retreading an archive post, but the prompts I threw together were rolling around in my cranial cavity. Playing with words is fun for me, so I couldn’t help but rework some of the previous notes. The Metro. A place? A person? A method of transport? Whichever gives the most positive vibes. …
The Metro. Take it downtown. Take it uptown. Fall in love. Lose a love. Make new friendships. Lose friends. High school. Graduate. Matriculate. Make a date. Love and hate. Your homework’s late. Typewriter. Clickety-clack, DING! Hammering the letters onto the page like you really mean to make them stick. One-finger typing. Two-finger typing. Nine-finger typing. …
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