Spring Cleaning the Clutter in my Mind
Since this is the time of year for such grandiose events as cleaning out attics, basements and gutters, I'd like to do a little cleaning of the attic in my head.
The Essential Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand has been one of the most distinguished singers of the last four decades.
Constant, Steady Strokes
Then comes the part when I say, "Boy, you have to lie."
Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death
Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, says that we realize not peace but only anguish.
5:00 a.m.
I’m building a house, but until it’s done I ain’t got no place to sleep…
Show, Don’t Tell
Americans are like two-year olds---
dazzled---
by bright pictures
of apples, dollars, guns, cars,
breasts and testicles.
The Poetry of Joe Bolton
Joe Bolton was born in 1961 in Cadiz, Kentucky. In 1990, shortly after completing his master's thesis, he committed suicide. It is estimated that Bolton wrote nearly 500 poems in the 80's, most of them while attending writing programs at Western Kentucky University, the University of Florida, and the University of Arizona. He published three …
Passion and Apathy
Wake up naked, alone, under a cosmos of faintly glowing star stickers. I am in Betsy’s bed. My bad. But where is she?
“this own-lee”
That coffee you drank, you’re sort of half-wondering whether it will go better with champagne than toothpaste and orange juice, but you can’t put too much thought into it now as there is a hungry demon on your windowsill doing business as a nut-obsessed squirrel you’d like to photograph. Besides, the meat of your proposal …
Virginia Hamilton Adair
"Anybody that could write a serious poem on the three blind mice … I just love it."