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“You are the ways of my mistakes I catch the rainfall Through the leaking roof That you had left behind You remind me Of that leak in my soul…” It is strange how music can put you right bac...
I Will Mend Your Heart (7/26/2017)
A little over 7 years ago I fell in love for the last time. I was still living in my house on great island. I had gone to the Sea Dog for New Years Eve. I danced with a girl I had known for f...
”There’s something sexy about the rain” She said as it came pouring down “It feels like kisses on my skin” She spread her arms and spun around In a summer island storm In a field of sugarcane She...
Cedar and Sage 4/2/02 (Background Noise)
I was rinsing off a plate or a coffee cup, don’t remember which. I looked at the drying plant on the raised wood platform that straddles the sinks and thought “What the hell is that….?”. Quickl...
Feels Like Tonight
Feels Like Tonight My birth certificate tells me I am 59 at 530 tomorrow morning. I don’t have a lot of complaints. Most of the weird twingy pains from last Summer’s heart surgery have subside...
Better Days
Better Days And here we are again. Crazy early Christmas morning. A wind storm blowing a gale outside, and they have been predicting power outages all day. Also predicting torrential rain. The...
I Remember LA
In 1985 I was a SSgt in the Air Force. Our wing, the 363rd at Nellis AFB, Nevada was the redheaded stepchild of the base. What with the rapidly growing Red Flag and the growing test and evalua...
1979
Written 5/17/2007 Background Noise is where I plant stories that strike me from the OD days. Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I shoul...
Maybe Be Alright / Chapped / Don't Ever Let me Go
Written 12/31/10-1/1/11 William Fitzsimmons came on the iPod today Maybe be Alright 12/31/10 I prayed tonight. Let’s be clear, I am an agnostic. To me that means that I believe in God, I just d...
There's Something Sexy About the Rain - 8/8/2007
Background noise is where I put entries from OD. This was written in 2007. The events described happened in 1989. ”There’s something sexy about the rain” She said as it came pouring down “It f...
Celaena (2008)
She appears in front of me and stares into my eyes. She has pretty eyes. Green with flecks of hazel. I don’t think she is Mexican. She smiles. It is a sad but pretty smile. I pretend I can’t ...
Lila
One of my many attempts at fiction - Lila 6/27/2012 I looked to the port and saw our three mosquito craft astern and slightly trailing. Over the wireless I told them to break off and head back t...
Hollywood Waltz
It has been rainy and windy today. I have the back door and the front windows open and it smells like fall. It seems like overnight the leaves all started changing. It seems like it will be a...
Hells Bells
My Original OD Name was Blinded by the Light, BBTL. I threw that one away, and became “Duke.” This is the entry I wrote when I made that decision. . . . Written 7/11/2008. After hitting the s...
Shimmer
Shimmer - 8/28/2008 It comes back to me, over and over again. Being at angels two-seven ten miles off the Dalmatian coast as we went about our work. The impact. The loss of control. The inci...
Exit Music (Background Noise)
I have a new book on PB: Background Noise. I will occasionally post things from my old OD diary. Exit Music for a Film - 4/27/2008 In San Diego, as a member of the battle group staff of the Con...
Book Description
Where I occasionally re-post old OD entries. The ones that scare the shit out of me.
