Monthly Archives: January 2024

Drifters Wanted – January 2022

January 30, 2024 – 1:25 pm

Last year I was driving down Dekalb Avenue and read an open-call sign for workers. Drifters Wanted. Huh? I blinked and the offer of paradise vanished as reality jarred my eyes back into focus. DRIVERS WANTED. What a difference a single letter, then again I’ve always sought something more than the world has to offer […]

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A Bigger Broom – Tioman Island 1993

January 30, 2024 – 12:59 pm

In 1993 I went to Tioman island in Malaysia. beautiful beach. remote. jungle. A Western woman came into the restaurant crying that a lizard was in her bathroom. I laughed thinking it was a gecko and grabbed a broom. I went to her bungalow and opened the bathroom to discover a giant monitor lizard over […]

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Chaney – Sebago Lake – July 1960

January 30, 2024 – 1:10 am

Written July 1, 2021 My best friends as a child were my older brother and Chaney We lived in Falmouth Foresides, Maine. We did everything together. School, hockey, eating stolen strawberries from the nearby farm, hang at the docks at the end of our street, and swim at Sebago Lake. My family moved to the […]

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-10 Centigrade

January 23, 2024 – 10:24 am

-10 Centigrade On Myrtle Avenue Me Warm within winter wear Old Sol 93 million miles away Solar waves on my face It’s real wintah I might not be ready For the North Pole But I’m ready For Wintah on Clinton Hill.

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JE T’AIME Brigitte Bardot et Serge Gainsbourg

January 23, 2024 – 8:34 am

The Americans love to dismiss French music and that’s because they don’t know ‘merde’.

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