Upon Reading Raintree County
Mar 19th
“Raintree County…which had no boundaries in time or space, where lurked musical and strange names and mythical and lost peoples, and which was itself musical and strange.”
Ross Lockridge Jr.
Poor Uncle Ross…I never knew the man, in fact he extinguished himself in 1948, with a sweeper hose ran from the tail pipe to the back seat [...]
East and West
Mar 16th
Pangea is real. Maybe Charlton Heston and Ted Haggard rode dinosaurs with Mel Gibson to get to Thunderdome before the Ice Age. Why not? I’ll believe when I see it. Play the tape back… Somebody get Homeland Security on the phone.
Once, destruction was confined to countless microcosms packed together in a motherland of innocent [...]
Watchful
Mar 10th
Piles of pink plastic toys shimmer
Around her pigtails in the center
of a capsizing bed
She scrambles for shelter
a wet dog on deck
holding on
And squirms below father’s plump finger
Voices thunder and tremble
She wails like a siren
Innocent cries for justice and mercy
Without the words or why
A father repeats
Door swings open and he enters
A sibling with memories
Of such blood
Vengeance [...]
The Glenn Scott Stamp of Public Notary Approval
Mar 5th
It should be known to all who hobby what has become of Glenn Scott Clarkson since the final days of one the bloodiest business disputes of all time, the hobbytown massacre, details of which have proven to be scarce, although a thorough report of the actual events is rumored to be in the making from [...]
