That guy on the other side of the bar-
the bald one with the goatee-
he looks like he should be in jail,
his hands bound to protect himself and others,
I don't like his proximity to her,
I don't like that look on his face,
not just his eyes, everything,
there is nothing that can be trusted,
even if he was caged like the animal I'm sure his is,
I couldn't ever trust a face like that..
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
The Story Game
This is a great thing to do when bored. You right a few lines, leaving a fun place to start from, and pass the napkin to someone else, have them repeat. It works with groups of two or more, but starts to get messy when you have more than ten. (... means the napkin was passed, in this case to Stacey and then back to me)
Colin hated his name and wanted to change it to ... Friedrich, but that was unusual, so to fit in he went to Germany, where he ... fell in love with his land- lady who was 30 years older than he. ... Helga, his land-lady, wasn't who she seemed to be though, as he found out on their wedding night when she...began to remove her voluminous wedding dress. As Friedrich gazed upon his new bride he was shocked to see ... she had a long, sinuous leopard's tail. Shocked when he asked her for it's story, she told him, "It all began ... 50 years ago, when my parents were running the geek show in the Midwest Circuit. They began to run out of freaks to display and ... had to come up with a quick solution because they were $3 from destitution. So they took her ...mother to a crooked doctor they knew and had some leopard DNA injected into her eggs and not knowing what may happen ... they thought it would be a great adventure. So, Helga grew up with a tail and feline eyes, and the family grew very wealthy as a result, until one day when ... the President of the Traveling Shows Association met the doctor at a bar. Discovering the engineering of Helga's freakness, he declared her a "Fake Freak!" ... According to the Association, "Fake Freakness" was punishable by enormous fines, which the family's finances could not support. Hearing all this, all Friedrich could think was, ... how very unfortunate it had been that he never finished law school and would not be able to sue the association for discrimination. His silence prompted Helga to burst into nervous laughter, the sound of which was so hideous to poor Friedrich that he died on the spot of a combination heart attack and ear drum explosion and Helga finally had another meal.
Colin hated his name and wanted to change it to ... Friedrich, but that was unusual, so to fit in he went to Germany, where he ... fell in love with his land- lady who was 30 years older than he. ... Helga, his land-lady, wasn't who she seemed to be though, as he found out on their wedding night when she...began to remove her voluminous wedding dress. As Friedrich gazed upon his new bride he was shocked to see ... she had a long, sinuous leopard's tail. Shocked when he asked her for it's story, she told him, "It all began ... 50 years ago, when my parents were running the geek show in the Midwest Circuit. They began to run out of freaks to display and ... had to come up with a quick solution because they were $3 from destitution. So they took her ...mother to a crooked doctor they knew and had some leopard DNA injected into her eggs and not knowing what may happen ... they thought it would be a great adventure. So, Helga grew up with a tail and feline eyes, and the family grew very wealthy as a result, until one day when ... the President of the Traveling Shows Association met the doctor at a bar. Discovering the engineering of Helga's freakness, he declared her a "Fake Freak!" ... According to the Association, "Fake Freakness" was punishable by enormous fines, which the family's finances could not support. Hearing all this, all Friedrich could think was, ... how very unfortunate it had been that he never finished law school and would not be able to sue the association for discrimination. His silence prompted Helga to burst into nervous laughter, the sound of which was so hideous to poor Friedrich that he died on the spot of a combination heart attack and ear drum explosion and Helga finally had another meal.
The first few lines....
It was raining the day they arrived in town and it rained every minute until they left again. Five days of darkness and rain, varying from mist to downpour did not help their moods; especially as faced with such a chore as.....
Friday, May 29, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Dark
The sun went down tonight and left me lonely waiting for the stars and moon to take its place
I watched the sky with bated breath but heavy clouds obscured my view.
I waited and waited but only the breeze in the pines came to interrupt my solitude
It whispered secrets I wasn't able to hear and made me lonelier than before
I went inside discouraged and turned on the kitchen lamp
Moths fluttered near the flame and afraid of their demise I turned the light off
Alone in the dark I thought about the void you left
and realized that the light I craved could not fill it
I needed more so I gave in to my loneliness and called you
The phone rang lonely once and twice and at three I gave up
And l let the dark take me.
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I watched the sky with bated breath but heavy clouds obscured my view.
I waited and waited but only the breeze in the pines came to interrupt my solitude
It whispered secrets I wasn't able to hear and made me lonelier than before
I went inside discouraged and turned on the kitchen lamp
Moths fluttered near the flame and afraid of their demise I turned the light off
Alone in the dark I thought about the void you left
and realized that the light I craved could not fill it
I needed more so I gave in to my loneliness and called you
The phone rang lonely once and twice and at three I gave up
And l let the dark take me.
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Friday, May 8, 2009
You
I met you one night at a bar,
You knew the bartender,
I knew her too.
She said your name,
I committed it to memory.
We saw each other again,
We sat and talked for a while.
We were just friendly bar flys,
talking about nothing.
Then I needed a friend,
and you just happened to be there.
And I'm glad you were.
Thank you for listening.
Please don't ever stop listening.
You knew the bartender,
I knew her too.
She said your name,
I committed it to memory.
We saw each other again,
We sat and talked for a while.
We were just friendly bar flys,
talking about nothing.
Then I needed a friend,
and you just happened to be there.
And I'm glad you were.
Thank you for listening.
Please don't ever stop listening.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
A quiet canyon
A quiet canyon,
A dry river bed,
A dusty existence.
Dusk gathers,
Like grey blue sheets of flannel,
Falling into the canyon,
And filling it from every direction.
A wind roars down from the prairie above,
It stumbles into the canyon,
It swirls around,
And the canyon begins to sing.
The wind moves the darkened air,
It whistles in the crevices,
And howls in the dry and lonely space.
It finds it's way out,
And all is quiet again.
Stars appear,
So very far above the prairie,
And farther still from the canyon floor.
Night blackens,
Blacker in the canyon,
Then anywhere above.
Ancient rocks begin to cool,
And sleep again.
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A dry river bed,
A dusty existence.
Dusk gathers,
Like grey blue sheets of flannel,
Falling into the canyon,
And filling it from every direction.
A wind roars down from the prairie above,
It stumbles into the canyon,
It swirls around,
And the canyon begins to sing.
The wind moves the darkened air,
It whistles in the crevices,
And howls in the dry and lonely space.
It finds it's way out,
And all is quiet again.
Stars appear,
So very far above the prairie,
And farther still from the canyon floor.
Night blackens,
Blacker in the canyon,
Then anywhere above.
Ancient rocks begin to cool,
And sleep again.
copyright 2009, all rights reserved
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