Sporadically Brian
11/15/18: Morning Meditation
Inhale (two, three four, five six... ) Exhale (two, three, four, five, six... ) So much is different, so much the same. I sit here in silence, with a million thoughts. None of which matter. [...]
11/14/2018: Back… But not Exactly Here
And so it goes... Goodness only knows The bag, the boil, the big fat foil. Nothing left of those... To start anew... Shared with but a few In love, in life, in all my strife. [...]
9/25/18: Predators and Scammers (Part forty five, Toxic Environments #2, version #2)
It was like that the entire first week on this job, for all of us scabs. The smell of that dusty, toxic mess stayed with us long after we got back to the motel room. [...]
9/24/18: Predators and Scammers (Part forty four, Toxic Environments #1, version #2)
Well… it wasn’t exactly Topeka. That’s just where I was told we were going when I asked. “Some God-forsaken hellhole by Topeka.” I had no idea what he was talking about. “What’s so hellhole-ish about [...]
9/23/18: Predators and Scammers (Part forty three, A Long Way from Home version #2)
A Long Way from HomeOn the side of the freeway. State highway seventy-two. Well south of I-80. South Omaha. Near the stockyards. I’m on my way home. Heh… home? Am I calling my dingy little [...]
9/22/18: Predators and Scammers (Part forty two, Unskilled Omaha version #2)
Chapter Five Scab Unskilled Omaha After paying rent and the several days of my (perhaps a bit unwise) street punk feeding program, what was left of the two hundred bucks I’d gotten from Fred was [...]