Two More Stupid Poems

The Annoying Ant One Autumn I got an ant bite on my bottom while looking for my father’s hatchet and I was afraid to scratchet. A Short History Lesson When I was in school we studied some old geezer named “Julius Ceezer”. He easily defeated Gaul Alesians and all. But, he tried to steal the […]

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Yeah, I’m Back…(Kind of)

It’s surprising how often we answer with, “It was my pleasure” when we actually mean, “It was a gigantic pain in the ass”. ☺ I don’t mind dying young as long as I can do it when I’m ninety. ☺ Often, I was awakened out of a sound sleep because my wife needed her calves […]

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Something I’m Working on – 2

It was hard not to notice that the poet’s shack had more books than space. The bed was sitting on stacks of literary quarterlies. The couch was made entirely of poetry anthologies. On the walls were shelves of self-published works. There was a wood-burning stove with photographs of various people spilling out onto the floor. […]

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Something I’m Working on

I was lost in a dark forest. How I got there, I do not know. It might’ve been because I drove my truck into that ravine. It might’ve been because I neglected to fire my safety flare into the air and instead ate an entire baggy of peyote buttons. Who’s to say? I tried following […]

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Thoughts on Hope

Legend has it that a Titan named Pandora was given a box and told not to open it. It begs the question of “why didn’t whoever gave her the box just keep it”, if all they were going to do with it was to not open it. Pandora did the only logical thing and lifted […]

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