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Danger Zone
Tomorrow I transition from being a steely eyed dealer of death to a steely eyed stocker of shelves. Fuck it, it’s 42k a year on top of my Navy retirement. And I’ve certainly had more difficult ...
Alert 15
Alert 15 / Vampires I had my phone interview with the manager at Wally World, she had already offered me the job. Working the overnight is something that civilians really don’t like. She asked,...
Wave Bye Bye
”This is the last time I’ll ever Say I love you This is the last night I fall among these graves The and last time that I’ll Cry and walk beneath a dark Lonely sky and wave bye Bye, bye bye…” Ti...
Inspirit / Gate Three Drop Four
Inspirit / Gate Three Drop Four Lola is playing her Grand Piano on a beach on a beach on the island of Brač, Croatia. I am familiar with this island. Although from altitude it wsn’t nearly this...
April, Come She Will
Sad song, but accurately expresses the lifespan of my loves. Sometimes years, sometimes months. Well endgame is coming on regarding this condo. I can’t get a solid read on what bank guy Garret...
Lights On
Turning Your Lights On by CDR Jack “Farva” Curtis, USN(Ret) On the signal from a 20‐something Sailor, you advance the throttles forward and feel the machine come to life. You don’t hear much beca...
Fallen
Heaven bend to take my hand And lead me through the fire Be the long awaited answer To a long and painful fight Truth be told I’ve tried my best But somewhere along the way I got caught up in all...
Blizzard
Anyone who has lived anywhere in the north knows what a Blizzard is – and no it doesn’t come from Dairy Queen. Starting tomorrow at 4am the snow will start, then the wind will start. By Noon the...
Heaven
Falling asleep last night, I got this earbug. Music is a time machine. I was back in the small Condo off Tropicana a mile from Boulder Highway. The first time I heard this song was driving fro...
Spaceship
Hood of my car Radio’s just loud enough So I can hear “Levon” Where you are is anybody’s guess for now Just a song I grew up on Constellations seem so out of line Wish that we could make it this ...
Rescue Me
Our story’s old, older than the wind It’s been decided for years How can we pretend That we all know just how it’s gonna end Rescue me in the middle of the ocean Crashing down, it’s always hard ...
Louder Than Ever
You were there in the front seat, Windows down we were burning, It was just like a movie scene, Those dashboard lights, And your pale blue eyes cutting through me… -Daughtry, “Louder Than Ever” ...
Confluence
Today is two years since Sandy committed suicide. I still haven’t reconciled that, between who I knew as, and who she was. I still can’t comprehend how deep into a dark hole you would have to g...
Up the Wolves
Our mother has been absent Ever since we founded Rome But there’s gonna be a party when the wolf comes home.. Up to ‘Salem’s Lot to meet the newest member of the family. Only a few weeks old, a...
Oubliette
Oubliette There is a scene in the movie “Labrinth” where Hoggle explains to Sarah what a Oubliette was: “Yes. It’s a place you put people… to forget about ‘em!” Apparently in my home I have a mul...
More Than a Feeling
More Than a Feeling It’s more than a feeling When I hear that old song they used to play And I begin dreaming ‘Til I see Marianne walk away I see my Marianne walking away… I got up this morning,...
On-Ree
On-Ree Hurricane/Tropical Storm/Tropical Depression Henri was a great fat nothingburger in Maine, despite the shrieking of the media “The! First! Hurricane! To! Make! Landfall! In New England! In...
Too Late the Hero
So here I am, rocketing through the Coronoverse in my spiffy cool condo-ship. Other than an unpleasant week getting my chest cracked open last summer I pretty much live in my condo-ship. I do t...
Into Dust
Mazzy Star, always the masters of melancholy. Well. I suppose we could call this the bleak mid-winter, but that is a Christmas song, and I personally think of “The Bleak Mid Winter” as being Feb...
Let It be
Let it Be Obviously I haven’t been writing a lot in the last few months. While I have felt “okay”, I haven’t felt great or even normal. Six month check in with my cardiologist included a chest ...
Valar Morghulis
Valar Morghulis Weird banging, clanging going on in my head. 19 years ago I was studying for the one-two punch of my NATOPS open and closed book exams. Sitting in the study of my house on Penn C...
Valar Morghulis
Valar Morghulis Weird banging, clanging going on in my head. 19 years ago I was studying for the one-two punch of my NATOPS open and closed book exams. Sitting in the study of my house on Penn C...
Memento Mori II
Memento Mori II So here we are two days later. I tried to go to the beach today, but they are limiting access, and the entrance was blocked. There is another way to the beach, down by the fort,...
Momento mori
Momento mori So I did this thing. After months of tests and planning I got up at 5AM and took yet another shower, using this weird presurgical soap that they warned me about getting in my eyes ...
Memento Mori
Momento mori So I did this thing. After months of tests and planning I got up at 5AM and took yet another shower, using this weird presurgical soap that they warned me about getting in my eyes ...
Book Description
The random and sundry. The sacred and profane. The pleasure and the pain.
Warning: I crack myself up sometimes
