In a wink blue trance Coy laugh hangs on tranquil air I blink away the balmy titillation Pure oxygen on dragonfly’s wings   Polite ringing soft low Captivating face dew wet remembrance Legs young coiled in quick lust Soft mountainous fury hides Jet-stream folly   Filed away in quick chase Tawdry pleasure provocative glance Coffee eyes steamed milk swirls Steam in cold morning impression Pulses through zephyrs of light   Hello in her smile resonates Vibrations echo in my e...

The audacity of egotism To say, here are some words. I’ve put them to paper. Place in your mind the understanding. Obtuse the slaking Fills the lust of the bourgeois mind. Now, Feel what I feel. Stand where I’ve stood. Hope what I’ve hoped. Withstand what I’ve withstood. Chase the American Dream in a ’74 Buick And $4/gal Gas Love what I’ve loved. Hear what I’ve heard. Dream what I’ve dreamt. Hurt like I’ve hurt. Be torn apart in a willingn...

grass high and green flowers faces wide shouting to the spirits – trees, the very thing that speaks to the gods give thanks for the rain the wind the sun the coolness of night eyes closed holding onto wind breath in the trees the sky everything bright melodious color on the wind deer perk their ears listen grass silent dance salutes the wind whistles through tall pines mockingbird sings it’s soft trill broken melody winds shifts nervously Still I walk i walk sunken soul no place ...

That was the day when I figured it all out. That was the day when I discovered how deep I was really in. Frances and I had said our good-byes just the week before, but I’d told myself again and again that Gilda was the reason. I’d been with Gilda again for just a few days and already I was headed for the deep end and I knew it. In the time I’d known her it had been fun, just pure unaldulterated fun. We had sex in just about every place you could think of. Anyway, that’s not the point. The poi...

When we walked in, I could have sworn we were in a shoe box. That was how it smelled, how it felt, like the inside of a shoe box. I felt as if the walls of cardboard were slowly moving in towards us, breathing like hungry beasts and moving ever closer. Then he walked up to us, our waiter. Now that I think about it, there must have been a black light in the foyer where I first saw him, because his gut reflected this intense purple light and jiggled right in my face because he was laughing as h...

It was simple really. Leave me with Brucey for the day, let us get to know each other. Simple really, except for one thing. It’s the blind leading the retarded. Frances and Neal decided to go to Great Falls for the day. It was something they had been planning for awhile. Only now, they had a baby-sitter. One hitch, this baby weighs two hundred fifty pounds and has obvious access to lethal weapons. OK, I’ll get down to the real point. Brucey absolutely loves the idea. He has taken to giving me...

It’s five days after the day I was nearly shot that I realize just how completely far off the edge of Earth, Fort Butt-Squeeze has fallen. I am desperately in the need of a cigarette and the events of the last few days have not helped things one iota. I now sit at the top of rusty bridge one hundred feet up from a shallow river. I am petrified, frozen to the bone and gripping the steal beam of this eighty-year-old bridge so hard that my knuckles are white. Francis has convinced me that sittin...

ACT I The Engagement (We open to a middle aged bachelors apartment. There is a couch with an afghan thrown over it and a coffee table on Stage Right. On Stage Left a dining room table is being set for a candlelight dinner. Henry is lighting the candles as the lights fade up and curtain opens. He is dressed in a suit and tie, not normal attire for him and he seems quite uncomfortable. He is abnormally agitated. He loosens his tie and unbuttons the top button. He takes a long look at the candle...

“Hitler’s Grandson is Alive and Living in Denver.” That was the headline on the latest edition of the tabloid I stole after spending my last three dollars and eighty-five cents in change on cigarettes. I didn’t believe it either. I just put the magazine inside my coat so I would have something to read while I was taking a shit. I had no idea at the time that what I read in the bathroom would soon be parallel to my life. But it’s all true. Pressure was coming from every direction at the time. ...