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The Killer Inside Me

When I was about fifteen years old, I read Larry Bird’s biography. I forget the name, but I remember it said that he started “hitting his shots” when he was fourteen…As a bench-ridden basketball player, that made me start practicing alone in a neighbors driveway everyday for the next year.
But I never did master the [...]

Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under Essays. Comments: none

Desert Dolphins

Posted: February 19th, 2010 under Slush. Comments: none

Graverobbing

A few years ago my best friend Odin died. He had a heart attack at ten years of age. The morning it happened, I raced him to the fire station at 60mph through the residential streets. The paramedics couldn’t revive him.
I took his fat, furry body home and cried over it. Not wanting to let [...]

Posted: February 19th, 2010 under Slush. Comments: none

I Exist!

Standing on a snow-covered pond.
I leave the first and only footprints.
Validated. I wonder when they’ll melt.

Posted: February 16th, 2010 under Slush. Comments: none

Vagrant Camp – Finale

I gathered a party to go check out the vagrant camp this past weekend. My dog, along with an old friend and his wolf-hybrid.
I figured two men and two dogs were enough to guarantee we wouldn’t be roped and raped by some drunken snowman.
We walked a mile through the woods to the camp, through the [...]

Posted: February 16th, 2010 under Slush. Comments: none

A Year of Winter

The snow made the maples willow.
Withered women draped in white.
Waiting for the winter procession to end.
Their last chance to say I love you.
Swallowed by the wind.

Posted: February 2nd, 2010 under Slush. Comments: none