AT THE ANTIQUE MALL At the antique mall, a reclaimed schoolhouse Abandoned not all that long ago: In the restroom graffiti remain intact, Unkind words and pictures about someone’s daughter, Like a fresco in the villa of the Vettii, Released from Pompeian ash By archeology’s delicate hammer, For the perusal of unintended viewers. At the [...]
Entries from July 2010
July 22, 2010
Swan Song For Wild Rick
I’d heard rumors about “Wild Rick” Mizell for years. He was the hottest guitarist in the region, and considered one of the local musicians most likely to make it big. He’d been playing in jammed nightclubs for years, and when he opened for Johnny Winter at the university, Winter asked him to come up and [...]
July 15, 2010
Hugh Everett and a Lap Dance
Did Everett ever figure on the many people of his many worlds trading places? Briefly, discreetly, the self conscious self finds himself in the world of the rogue who shares his face – the world of a red headed stripper whose skin smells like weed and whose gaze peers outside of her own existence into [...]
July 8, 2010
Diary of a Mad Croupier
1 The sun burns today. I wear my cap again, to protect me. The customers look right through me as they slide their shiny, hulking cars into the endless rows in front of Target. One young girl says to the other that I must be wearing a tinfoil hat to keep people from reading my [...]
July 1, 2010
Had a Body like a Coke Bottle
Everyone wants her, she is always for sale Perfect as plastic, bubbly as the air that comes out of her mouth She’s always in the grasp of my hands, I take her wherever I go I shake her hips as they rock back and forth Her curves are flawless, complete, manufactured I’m thirsty for her [...]
