Silence Sounds of words unspoken Words unheard Words, words, words Won’t stop dropping pen tops Won’t stop jumping roadblocks Won’t stop chucking hard knocks And I can’t keep calling time fake I can’t sleep so I stay awake Thinking second belated Backwards ratings about past Relationships. I’ve got some frustrations. Let me tip my hat […]
I am really irritated at my neighbor’s dog, a miniature schnauzer. And not for what you might think. I have had neighbors whose dogs barked incessantly and pooped indiscriminately. That’s a whole other set of problems. Of course if I am really honest, it’s my neighbor and not her dog that I am really irked
I wonder do you have any idea how you look and sound to normal people? Your braying and shrieking supposed to indicate sincerity, your pandering, your condescension, your invocations of The People, as if you knew any, your focus-tested, shopworn slogans, your Issues. Lead-poisoned children are not Issues. Shit gigs are not Issues. Collapsing bridges,
“Let there be Form” Pleaded Something That felt too much Apart, too distant And so the concentration began – A hunkering down Of gasses, a conviction A coolness, a slowing down of Molecules, Until there in the center Of the universe Came spinning gently This liquid blue orb. And how lovely she played The soliloquy,
We make things. We do things. And we’re smarter than you think. Our language is basic, but we mean what we say. We judge others based less on words and more on actions. You learned how to make a living from words, but you don’t follow the rules you try to impose on others. You
Rye Curtis will read from his novel Kingdomtide at the Pikes Peak Community College Downtown Studio Art Gallery on Wednesday, February 19th, at 7:00 p.m. Kingdomtide was named one of the best books of January 2020 by O, The Oprah Magazine. In the novel, 72-year-old Cloris Waldrip survives a devastating plane crash only to find herself
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