a poem is a sermon
What makes up a community, if not those common threads that make us not such strangers and more interested, instead, in how the other sees the world, what makes a good friend tick. To share the things that shape your life: that’s what makes friendship stick. And who need know out and beyond some wide, […]
What is there left to talk about? The lines have all been drawn, and leave us little common ground; not much to dwell upon. Why squirm in silence here together, bound by social whim to say not what is on our minds, but delicately skim around the ugly awful truth: that you and I will […]
I’m living in a small, rural town again. It may have a university campus smack dab in the middle of it, but face it: Natchitoches, Lousiana is not a center of urban sprawl. I’ve lived in small rural towns before. Hell, I spent 2nd through 8th grade 15 miles outside of one with a population […]
Don’t say a word; let the silence between us deepen and swallow us whole; forget who was in control, who had the more meaningful role. Don’t say a word; let not speaking remind us of what can be better unsaid; better to not be misled, or say something ill of the dead. Besides, talking never […]
for Merle Haggard I’m an easy-going guy as far as that’s concerned I tend to only simmer where another fellow burns Let live and go on living is the lesson that I’ve learned I only ask for the same in return Some fellows look for reasons to get into fights They claim its just protection […]
I don’t talk politics down at the honky-tonk; doesn’t seem to make much sense to me: stirring up a hornet’s nest with some of ol’ Milwaukee’s best and finding out just where we disagree. We both want the same things, besides, more or less: love and understanding with some happiness. What’s the point of splitting […]
for Starlight Dances We met by chance, our wires were crossed in some freak Internet exchange; but in the years that came before we’d laid the groundwork separately for karma, destiny or fate to bind the ends of ropes thought lost. With words we reached across the space from separate isolated worlds. Our stray electron […]