Cecil Vortex

My 3-year-old and me
back to back at a
Route 5
pee shack

and there's this mighty roar
pours out his two-foot frame.

The rush of my doom.
As I'm flushed
out the room.

Cyril, who recently retired from service
in the British government.
Only fifty some-odd years old
and now traveling the world
in the wake of a messy divorce.
And what did you learn, Cyril,
in your fifty some-odd years?
“It isn’t … Read on Macduff...

Family smiles down
long tables at
loud restaurants
there’s an extra calmness
there sometimes
and even family
blank stares and
family glares still
jaws with an
inch or so between them and
all the muscles
hanging comfortably
loose.

Senator Strom Thurmond belongs to my gym.
I see him there three, four times a week.
On the treadmill.
Sculpting his biceps.
His rock hard abs.
He doesn’t listen to music while he works out.
He just stares straight ahead… Read on Macduff...