Roland was some kind of mixed breed, a veritable freak in our high school of whitebread plainness.  Two years my senior, half Chinese, but broad shouldered with bowed legs and about my height, Roland was already an adult.  When he stalked the halls of our school he was usually tailed… Read full post »

“Look around Marshall, we’re all we’ve got.”  My mother spoke unequivocally.  “And it’s enough.” 

She was referencing her eldest sister death, and the fact that our nuclear unit would not be attending the funeral.  It was in Ohio/… Read full post »

Too often we Americans are seduced into only thinking about winning.  Thumbs up, thumbs down; our political system of winner takes all; our obsession with the acquisition of material objects; the inane ubiquity of sport, and of course, our ever enduring and continuing legacy of being a… Read full post »

“The Full Go Around”

In the introductions before the full-go-around
each Sex Offender need be well-prepared,
like sitting ‘round the dinner table, everybody knows why we’re here
We are not here to discuss deviant arousal or victim empathy.
We are all men here, irrespective of what… Read full post »

In the Navy I'd have to muster by 7 a.m. When we were  working on removing and replacing the F-14 Tomcat's engine we would report directly to the hangar bay to relieve the night check crew.

On the hangar deck there was no food, no drink because any item or container… Read full post »