impedimenta. |
[because it's been a while ...] It's fifteen minutes past midnight and I'm nauseated, yes, and trying to write. I am watching my fingers, ringed and dirty, nails mottled with chipping polish the col...
Posted by on Sat, 31 May 2008 00:37:00 GMT |
pregmancy. |
For anyone who's been living under a rock: the age has come which sees a pregnant man waddling down the sparkling streets of a quiet residential neighborhood in Bend, Oregon. The story of Thomas Bea...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 17:54:00 GMT |
aging. |
[because youth is in the soul of the beholder]
This morning I attended the birthday party of a three-year-old girl. It was an early morning engagement, held privately prior to normal o...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:58:00 GMT |
waterboarding. |
[... because if it isn't torture, what is?]
Attorney general Michael Mukasey is certainly working diligently to pre-empt any accusations of even momentary missteps into the realm of common human...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:11:00 GMT |
impatience. |
[because of premature truncation]I have uncomfortable twitches and nervous habits, a wandering eye and subpar sensibility. I feel ill-equipped to engage in typical human communication. Is this famil...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:43:00 GMT |
disillusionment. |
[because fantasy has lost its potential] I can no longer write, I merely doodle, sometimes I diddle, often I daddle, mostly I dawdle and gratefully recede into the metered safety of a prosai...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:42:00 GMT |
voyeurism. |
[because I love vicariously]
There are two men, partners, who ride the 38 Geary as I do on weekdays, and generally at around the same time. I have a perverse fascination with each of t...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:08:00 GMT |
dunbar. |
[because the world we've made disgraces its citizens]Sometimes the monotony of my life is so pervasive that it tempts me to rip walls out of buildings and pavement from the ground. I'll lea...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:07:00 GMT |
CRY. |
[because of social anxiety] There's this woman, she takes the same bus route as I do in the mornings. She's small and always weighted down with bags, shoulder bags and plastic bags and back...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:17:00 GMT |
take 2. |
[because death is all around]... to suddenly become aware, not simply theoretically, but tangibly and palpably; sensually and emotionally; authentically and veritably, of the material and ecumenical r...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:30:00 GMT |
