THE RAGDOLL EFFECT has me fully in its grip, derek has a headache, jeremy has no money carmen owes the rent, junior’s sister is dead the neighbor went to jail, there is no bail, the children climb my fence. no use in lowering the drapes they know I am inside the telephone shrills and shrills, my lips move silently “is there no balm in Gilead?’ I whisper.
WALK IN MY SHOES AND I WILL TELL YOU A TALE. walk in my shoes tell me how you feel my pain. when the drunk took my life, the woman in the red dress was raped and stabbed she died, her shoes were stilettos, blue ones Mary Jane shoes worn by the little girl stuffed in the bin. What does my shoe say? I have walked miles to this point I passed shoes along the way they cried out to…
Friday looms large and bright Friday was always here, I just never saw it. Friday was Monday Friday was also Thursday. Everyday is Monday through Sunday. Friday is today. Here and now. celebrate the now. (10.16.2016)
Drop your bag atop my feet, jabber jabber to my right, coughing snorting to my left, popping gum across the aisle daring me to say a word. Clap clap clap, clap clap clap clap, until her hands are sore while others read and some do snore. Suddenly like a crazed cuckoo, head reared back she screeches like a wounded hound; please stand clear of the closing doors, Shades of Hades beneath the ground. The music blare its tinny whine from a…
EARLY MORNING VOICES WHEN I AM NAKED AND VULNERABLE. Slowly my eyes adjusted to the new light a new day has come, I turn toward my mecca it blinded me a while. then they came, First like a susurrus then a grumble,