“Button Up Shirt”

needing a shower but lacking the drive and ambition to take one, i change shirts, a surefire short term fix to tide me over till inspiration returns, sliding into a white button up job with a collar and a gray plaid crisscross design, the kind of thing that just smacks of i've-got-it-togetherness and flies directly … Continue reading “Button Up Shirt” →

“Whirligig”

fresh off a nonsensical dream that i can't quite remember, i ooze onto the scene of another day, red plastic Solo cup of unsweetened tea in hand as i sit under the swooshing and the gentle hum of the dizzy dizzy ceiling fan, gyrating like a whirligig as if powered by the thoughts circumbobulating inside … Continue reading “Whirligig” →

“Chameleon”

blending into the backdrop of everyday life, i camouflage myself ingeniously among the so-called normal ones as they go about their daily grind, eating and sleeping and going to work and going to Walmart, living like one of them as i go about my business, unnoticed by most and that's just fine by me

“Idyll For A Moment”

caught in a moment, cool breeze ablowing and carrying away all my temporary cares, i sit, at peace, in a front porch chair nursing what's left of a fine midday cup of coffee and conversating with my dad about nothing in particular, just whatever happens to come to mind as i speculate about life and … Continue reading “Idyll For A Moment” →

“Retrospect”

peering back through the years i remember the vivid hues of times gone by, the euphoric highs of younger days throbbing with excitement as i chatted up the world and wrote it all down in my many notebooks i would later on simply destroy, unmedicated and not too concerned as life whizzed by in a … Continue reading “Retrospect” →

“Human Being”

to the layman i am an enigma and to the professional a thing to be studied and classified, a disordered mind shuffling through life in a disheveled body, misunderstood and more than a little apprehensive about interacting with my fellow humans whose goal in life is to have it all together, altogether not a bad … Continue reading “Human Being” →

“Evangelistics”

i just wanted others to love Jesus as much as i did, throwing myself headlong into the task, a harrowing process of holding signs on street corners, handing out flyers and talking to the strangest of strangers, all in the hope that my tiny spark would catch flame in the dry tinder of someone else's … Continue reading “Evangelistics” →