Just a quick heads-up for them what follow such things, that the Don Quixote Deathmarch is now officially looming on the horizon. The exact start date hasn’t been selected yet, but it’ll most likely be right around the beginning of … Read on Macduff...
Beverly Junction, WA, with contrast implied
The kind of place
where they name
their kids “Hunter”
and mean it.
“Justice Legal”
This weekend my 5-year old asked: “wouldn’t it be funny if ‘Justice League’ was ‘Justice Legal'”?
Like it was some hit ABC show, where big-city super heroes
practice the law wearing costumes.
Never using their super powers
just, you know… Read on Macduff...
Dark Blue
The car was a used Chrysler LeBaron convertible
parked just around the corner.
Dark blue and dented, it had lived
a bumpy life.
They got in and Cal started the engine.
And when he shifted, the car rumbled
and fought … Read on Macduff...
Too much pee
If you find yourself
stepping on the scale after peeing
well,
that’s not a good sign.
Signify
I signed a lot of stuff today
and I don’t mean to brag
but no.
I do.
It was the way
I curved that capital “C” in Cecil.
and looped the “l.”
My graceful scoop.
The pen’s hurled weight… Read on Macduff...
Projector
He projects things on her
like she’s a drive-in movie.
He plays whole movies on her.
I’ll draw the hair
If we’re all drawing a face together
I don’t want to draw the mouth.
I’ll draw the hair —
just lines, loose and easy.
Or the eyes.
But not the lips.
The way they curve and join
and hold back… Read on Macduff...
Clown shoes
I found this spam comment on a friend’s site yesterday (minus the line breaks). I’ve swapped out the thing they were selling and replaced it with “clown shoes” because, well, I don’t want to sell their stuff.
But I loved … Read on Macduff...
Lost
Forgot an old friend's name tonight. I thought it was "David Shapiro, of Kansas" but it's not, is it? It's something else, something equally common unsearchable. Or maybe it is?
Lordy lordy I've lost all confidence.