Knock on the door and when I open it, I’m immediately suspicious of the old man with the clipboard, green shirt from the electric company, and a yellow smile. He’s wearing pink basketball sneakers is what’s weird to me. He adjusts his glasses and does this Goofy guffaw and rolls out a greeting. I’m not …
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Writober-10-29-2019-Injured
You look up from your place on your knees on the bathroom floor. You’ve had a good streak going. Thirty-eight years of not having to be in the hospital. But something inside you hurts and you’re going to need help. You pour yourself down the toilet, ask the bacteria which way to the hospital, and …
Writober-10-28-2019-Ride
Things I miss about my ride:It was low and it looked slowsometimes it the front end would scrape on concrete parking space endsand it was upsetting but alsohey, the car was the right height.It punched forward, clunked through gearsthe rear sliding then grabbing then propellingsmell of rubberthe sound of it, again low, almost underground, and …
Writober-10-27-2019-Coat
What a silly thing to write about, living in Florida. Maybe it works if we talk about paint. My deck needs a new coat of paint. But we might be adding on to the house, which means the deck would be destroyed. That makes me sad because I resurfaced that deck with my friends. Those …
Writober-10-26-2019-Dark
I expected to go Batman or poetic on this one and when I couldn’t write anything quickly, I pretty much hit the brakes on Writober. It’s November 7th now and I’m writing this while at a conference. I’m wearing a black t shirt, got the black sneakers with the white bottoms on. Jeans. I wanted …
Writober-10-25-2019-Tasty
I just went for a walkbut it’s nice near Halloween sometimeseven though it’s Florida.It sucks I always gotta qualifyweather related statements with where I livebut it’s importantyou glean my bitchingbecause you probably have seasonsbut for meOctober in the darkcan taste as sweatyas sparkly crackly July nights.I am chewing on icebecause soda is the devilespecially before …
Writober-10-24-2019-Dizzy
Today, someone told me that maybe my problem is that I’m trying to get things done in a place where no one gives a shit. I didn’t know if he was talking about the earth or my job. I’m not saying that to be sarcastic or dark or a brooding teenager. I’m saying it because …
Writober-10-23-2019-Ancient
A thing in my left hip will pop sometimes. It seems like the sort of thing that would happen with my old GI Joe toys, when the rubber band inside, the one that kept the hips and the torso and the legs together, would go wonky. And my left knee, it fills up with sadness …
Writober-10-22-2019-Ghost
Someone from work died over the weekendHe was a good guyfrom what I knew of himthough he used to be a copand I guess it’s mean to say thatthough I dealt with a nice enough copa couple weeks agoand when I complimented himon his excellent customer service skillshe said, “We’re in a silent civil war.”So …
Writober – 10-21-2019-Treasure
We never thought, in all of our wildest dreams, that after the robot broke its digging arm, and the storm covered the solar panels, that two years later another storm would come and blow the panels clean and the robot would ping back home. The first thing we noticed was the robot was upside down …