September 10, 2016 Hot outside, Hot everywhere. I am hot, we are hot. Kinda drunk too. A quarter to ten at night on the subway train with two bananas. In a white van under a bridge at a van party in Williamsburg. “I didn’t know this would be such a sausage party,” Amanda […]
a motel above a slow river and a highway
Budget Inn – Canajoharie, New York March, 2020 My brother and I had been driving all around Upstate New York for days. It was just a few weeks before COVID-19 really reared its ugly head, but there was a sense amongst most people that something was up. We were looking for houses to buy, all […]
One Night in Clarion pt.1
September 29, 2016 Clarion, Pennsylvania A quarter to 6:00p – Motel 8 – room 217 – rain This place is the real deal. My intention was to drive all the way to New York City today but there is a strange noise coming from the front driver’s side wheel on my truck so I am […]
a blue mood on the airporter shuttle
November 19, 2015 11:11a on the airporter shuttle Bellingham to SeaTac The height of this bus is 10.4 feet or 3.1 meters. It is time for me to go. Time, time, time to go. I am unsure if I want to be here possibly not. A heavy weight, I carry and not in […]
A brief conversation between a dog and me
February 20, 2018 Tompkins Squark Park, Lower East side late afternoon A man approaches two friends who sit on a park bench with their aging black lab. They make small talk, the man and the friends. “She was never that fat,” the man says at one point, talking about the lab. I look at […]
it’s been a while
Hello – It’s been a while since I last made an addition to this website. Alas! I return. Some thoughts were had with regards to whether or not I should keep the former content. It is out of date, surely, but it is also indicative of the changes in my personal style and writing technique […]
from spring
June. The Chihuahua taco truck is running hot. They do not serve Chihuahua tacos. It is pulling out of the parking lot now and I wonder how many emissions are being paraded into the atmosphere. Just wonder. I am leaving and this is only the beginning. As always, what I shall encounter I do not […]
And
I am at a restaurant and it is the sixteenth of May and I am with a friend and wearing a new pair of sandals and I have a crush on a person who writes holding the tip of his pen with the tips of his fingers and I am drinking a mojito and I […]
violet pt.ii
there is a family having a picnic next to me and they are all extraordinarily obese. eating hotdogs and drinking soda. many hotdogs and many sodas. cigarettes too. there is a walker perched nearby. trusty steed. yelling. they are yelling. the youngest is a girl named hannah. possibly anna. it’s hard to tell because i […]
violet
i am at the park looking over the lake and there are two women in front of me. each of them appears to be around the age of 60. sometimes it is hard to say. one of them talks about living in the midwest, chicago. “that was for a decade,” she says. a freelance writer […]
