Inflated Deflated Burgeoning Withering Cascading Trickling Sinking Rising Mallomars Biscuits Insightful Unperceptive Straight-laced Bohemian Gooey Zooey Aridly firm Give it to me all And let me bake in it Out I come out Like a hot cake with a fudgy inside I’m your friend I’m not your friend […]
I don’t know about you, but this year has just gone by too quickly. I still very clearly remember the 2018 lettering exploding in bright colors on New Year’s eve. Each day since then has been a whirlwind. Each month has passed by without me being able to […]
There it was staring at me. No eyes, no ears, no mouth. Yet, it glared and screamed. I had tried for so long to not see But it was always there waiting to overrun the surface. I went searching for water. And, I found a raging stream […]
The night was dark and damp. She tried to not focus on the darkness as she felt her way across the room. She pushed back towards the wall and it seared her skin. The sounds of the night were getting louder and chillier in the frightening, oppressive air. […]
It doesn’t stop It just keeps going like a freight train on steroids It picks up speed And never lets up It’s relentless The trenches built in deep The veins hardened with no relief Tonight Let’s go before the train stops Let’s wipe those tears away And, it’s […]
“There’s only one place at a time where eyes can be” Growing up in a Puerto Rican household, with a very superstitious mother, meant that I carefully monitored my dreams. And, by that I mean the nighttime movies I constructed while sleeping. My dreams were extremely […]
I’d fallen through the murky abyss And, then I woke up I nodded off to the melody And, then I woke up I hit the snooze button over 1000 times And, then I woke up The bright lights blinded me into a deep sleep And, then I woke […]
He was very wistful these days. He now had a grandchild, although that was completely unexpected. It was all very strange to thim how life just kept on going with no breaks in between. He liked to go into his music room every morning and look at how […]
Facebook, at work, on the highway. Everywhere I look I am bombarded with pithy sayings. I think these are meant to be motivational and encourage me to live a better, more fulfilled life. As a New York curmudgeon, I often scoff at such pithy, supposedly insightful bits. […]
In this day and age there are still people who do not use the out-of-office reply message. And sometimes that is because they don’t know how to use it or sometimes it means something about how you perceive yourself. but let me not get ahead of myself here. […]