Electra-girl gyrates desperately.

Daddy is away on business.

The house practically empty,

Desolate winds rattle windows,

Stomach twists with craving.

Electra-girl squeals,

“Kill Mommy! Get her out of the picture.”

Little Miss teacup wants everything just right,

When daddy… Read full post »

Irrationality always wins

Chicago is aspirated beast

Braggart forced laugh

I had a vision but I have no vision

Dreamed I was making out with a woman

Who had long stretchy pink octopus tentacles

Sedulously legato ephemera… Read full post »

 "Empty glass looks like coffin" or, I don't want to awaken memories that need to sleep

I asked the old man

If he would miss existence

He flatly stated, “No.”

I asked him if he missed

His girlfriend who died

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It’s what I can’t imagine

That keeps my eyes peeled

Glued to seat

Everyone in denial

And maybe that’s the worst… Read full post »

Can We Possibly Be Friends Again, Or Conflicted Codependent Fantasy Involving Woman I Just Met And Hardly Know - 2013 M.R.R.

Being male, I wander

Mom dares not wonder

What kind of monsters she birthed

She brought her own equipment

I was aggressive… Read full post »

It took a very long time for A to find B,

and possibly even longer for A with B to get to C,

then D shadowed, and along came easy E,

F hurried, G stumbled, and before you know it,

H pushed, I shoved, J fell, K… Read full post »

A voice inside keeps repeating,

You’ll never have this opportunity again.

Title or first line set precedent.

Pride is my sin, even with low self-esteem.

I remember severe pain

sitting at table

with head collapsed

on folded arms.

God… Read full post »

^{Everything is such fun in the beginning,}

^{when it’s new and undiscovered.}

^{i’ll try almost anything.}

^{What is meant by almost?}

^{All these stupid sick shit roles we play,}

^{all this pretending, why?}

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 Drawings, Friday, February 8, Jennifer Norback Fine Art, 217 W. Huron, Chicago

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24" x 18"

28" x 22'

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It was obvious how to do it

Yet I couldn’t figure it out

Until I saw it in a movie… Read full post »

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She looks at mirror

Cannot understand

What she’s become

Never queen her entire life

She glances out alley window

Into 4am darkness

Feeling tragic ending

To accidental romance

Premeditated murder

In Chicago in bitter winter

In… Read full post »

I’m the worst cunt in the world

No one is worse than me.

For my next bride,

I shall marry the Queen of She

Ba (Academy presents her majesty.

Nominee gushes.

Audience applauds exhaustively.)

She will manhandle me,

Liquor on her… Read full post »

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In search of what we do not know

desire what we cannot know

she seeks strange desires inflames.

Strange is the only life I’ve known.

When I was young

I thought for sure

Some girl would marry me

And we’d be happy.… Read full post »

In Lieu of Abuse

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I have problems with letting go, moving on, losing people. Nothingness is recurring nightmare. It seems like events around me aren’t good, but I get used to them, then ground pulls from under me, and I’m supposed to adapt, which I do too slowly,… Read full post »

Uninvited Guest* Annexed

We are seated on opposite sides of ottoman,

Brother and sister,

long history of knowledge tenderness contention attachment,

sharing glances psychological plotting.

The uninvited guest plops down between us

large foreign hand touches both our thighs

We look… Read full post »

The dead ask nothing

Nothing offers no answer.

Life makes demands.

She reminds me of someone.

I once was deeply in love.

The glass is empty,

yet she keeps sipping the straw.

The surgeon’s serrated saw,

severed crown of… Read full post »

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Ophelia Reconfigured

The compl… Read full post »