Category Archives: Imagine
It Could Be the Beret.
Is this sandwich for eating? Yes it is. Might I eat some of it? Indeed. It is quite delicious. Good. Might I now extract the nutrients internally to burn as energy today? Yes. I see there is a pickle. There … Continue reading
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Aloe and Goodbye
Once upon a time in the year 2112, a handsome man and correspondingly beautiful woman rode a horse along a sandy ocean beach. A twisted, scarred, half-buried Statue of Liberty came into view. “Oh my God…” screamed the man, who … Continue reading
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Rise of the Planet of the Squirrels
Part III, the denouement by Jeff Sawyer No one knows when the gray squirrels became carnivorous and learned to parachute. Not even the Mayans predicted it, and they forewarned of great floods and Kardashians and reverse mortgage lenders. I spotted … Continue reading
EMERGENCY MUSTACHES ARRIVE IN TURKEY
ERCIS, Turkey – Truckloads of emergency mustaches began arriving today to aid desperate survivors of the recent quake here. Even some 65 hours after the major trembler struck, mustaches were being pulled from beneath the rubble by rescuers – tangled and … Continue reading
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LEXICON, HENRY V, and PINATAS of the 21st CENTURY
I was out walking the dog the other night – a protracted endeavor now that he is deceased – and thinking about a word I’d read for the first time: weltschmerz. This is not a sausage but a noun describing a … Continue reading
Filed under Creative, Imagine, Philosophy, Women
Journey of One
Midnight. A boy sits eating cereal at a small kitchen table on the green of the third hole, a 370-yard dogleg, of the Purrington Hills Country Club. His short legs swing front and back against the rungs of the wooden … Continue reading
Filed under Imagine, Philosophy, Religiosity, Short Story, Uncategorized
just stop that right now, they said
Hey alright then you kids, You’ve been gnawing at these arbitrary electronic treatises in such great numbers lately, applying your content-needy eyeballs to the glass like lionesses to the rear haunches of a live springbok even as the front end … Continue reading
Driving Mr. Warmth
I was Don Rickles’ driver. He had just finished the late show at a major room in Vegas, and was standing in front of the hotel waiting for me to pull around and pick him up. But I couldn’t find … Continue reading
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Supersized
You walk alone along the edge of a rushing stream of liquid polyester Under the clear, steaming, viscous ribbons, schools of neon grouper fish dart and feed and blink High above you, mature bankers in serious black suits float by … Continue reading
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The Trouble with Art is it’s Too Quiet
Art museums would be busier places if people could react to what they saw without fear of being tossed out. Artists practicing other creative forms – live music, live comedy, for example – feel they’ve failed unless they receive applause, … Continue reading
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