Is it bad
to root for
Prospero

because he gave
you hopes
of conquering Death

and when he dies,
you still shiver
and check the time?

It is like
one of those
little toy dogs
that you don’t
notice
until it is too late

and you stumble
right over it.

J. M. Berrie
is the greatest
horror playwright
in history

because
he wrote
the truth.

Neverland
is a dream.

And I just woke up

Personification
of emotion
and complex ideas
is a really
clichéd practice

but,
Karma really is a
*****.

It’s hard
to concentrate
when the hum
of incandescent
lightbulbs
grows louder
and the pure
white screen
in front of you
becomes brighter
after an hour
of sitting
stuck
in writer’s block.

My sock
caught a snag
and a single thread
unraveled.

Without a thought,
I pulled the strand

And now,
I am left
with nothing
but a pile of cotton

I have a terrible habit
of dragging my feet.

Around the corner,
a blast of blue
comes screaming
just outside the coffee house.

A small boy,
no more than five,
is a beaming
chocolate goatee
from the local ice-cream parlor.

A woman chases him
with the exasperated look
of a mother on a date
with her son
.

Her eyes still red
from her four hours
of sleep,
but her smile:
as big as her son’s.

She catches him as he stops
at the smell
of fresh chocolate chip cookies
emanating from the coffee house.

Her motion is quick
and calculated
as she turns him around,
zips his jacket,
& kisses his forehead.

She takes his hand
and they are off.

I assume they live happily
ever after.