It Ain’t The Prettiest (Midwest In General)
A bunch of much of the same; Midwest-mold ubiquitous like the plague. Break the routine like sinking into a grave. I hear it on the radio, I see it in print. Seen it, done it, heard it before. I...
View ArticleAmerican Money/How Thoughtful of You
I stand in a land where Weathermen lie and people hide inside two-thirds of the year. 3 different pairs of shoes-my daily allotment, you can walk them if you care to try. Remember though, somethings...
View ArticleTake It As It Comes
After you go, leaves come out waving in the trees, grass takes a greener shade of fresh, and flower blossoms bloom over, etc. When you come back it’s not so bad, I guess. Because the beauty you bring...
View ArticleAmerica The War Corporation; Syria
America, as a government entity, is a corporation for capitalism-considered as an individual-a person, with all of the civil rights and privileges we citizens have been afforded. Then if this...
View ArticleMedia Scandal (Print Shit)
Just up the stairs. Just down the hall. Just out the door. Written on all the walls. Above the low. Below the Glow. Until the sun explodes. We grow into tight repose. Reading, shuffling our eyes;...
View ArticleNoble Inquiry
Gatorade and Smokes, MH-17 and Jokes; People die, Rebels lie, And this concept seems remote. Just ask CNN my friend. you know they know, you know. Stateside, Lounging poolside, Just hoping these...
View ArticleLocal Public Radio
Frequency of seldom infrequency, static-noised air to patient ear, while colored with sun near a bus or at the beach drinking beers. Electric sounds come forth in waves causation to rethink a certain...
View ArticleEvery Story has a Companion
It’s really easy To look at one side of a story, And to be affected By just that one side. But what I’ve found throughout the years, Hours of thought, Hard-work, And beers- Is that more often than not,...
View ArticleThe Theory of Thought
The theory of thought Went out for a walk. It was there on its own, It needed naught for a home. It walked by in due time, Past the people in line. When it was asked to come back It protested with...
View ArticleNBD MPR
Listen: Black ice with a dust of snow; Causing foul for the work commute. Dramatic TransAsia plane crash, Beheadings and rebel fighting too. -How about you? Today’s News is blasé- Most are concerned...
View ArticleNew Danger: Water Balloons and Squirt Guns
Nowadays water balloons and squirt guns are considered dangerous weapons. Oddities which can get you tackled to the ground, cuffed, and thrown into the back of a police cruiser. It’s kind of funny. I...
View ArticleA Media Inspired Solution to Everything (Modern Movements)
A pair of eyes stare at the “problem”. A single mind labels, calculates, and retains. A pair of hands do nothing for meaningful progress. Another group of “activists” yell: change!, change!, change!
View ArticleThe Smoke Of Canadian Wildfires
Milky veiled were silhouettes of downtown buildings from 280 at rush hour, Wildfire smoke of Canada had pushed thru blanketing the humid heartland.
View ArticleA Moment of Silence for Cecil the Lion
Texts of love were left drawn on post-it’s at the kitchen table— outside Southeast was dark green light blue and a soft cream, where cars played musical chairs with endangered spaces. A “truly real”...
View Articlemaking it ok
perhaps, in a country where we have made it commonplace acceptable to meticulously disrupt and replace those in far-off scapes at the push of cold button–now, also we find it ok to explain which might...
View Articlefake news/ fake people
fake news is actually news, like fake people are actually people. i mean think about it. how many fake plants do you see in your office each day, and say: damn, those aren’t real plants, i won’t see...
View Articlebundle up
ere the cold wind hardened person debacle, post-repast, i become less like those who represent me and more like myself, still running from its presence. we are found, as errant snow in misplaced cracks...
View Articlei guess i am afraid too…
i think of our fast time when and where the fear holds us tight, when we tell everyone how afraid we are about everything and anything, everywhere, so vocally, so knowingly, and how our ways only will...
View ArticlePioneer Press
I love the local paper In the morning No matter the grade of slant Headlines scream alarmistly Pictures evoke my tender emotions Even the coupons look good Even the petro smells nice But the letters to...
View ArticleThe Beer Dabbler
under gray rain sprayed heavens troves walked in boots and leather at the Dabbler while leaving skinny smokers on the train with their mountain bikes and their obsessive plans forward to old new music...
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