My childhood grocery store looms legendary It had an enormous step on scale a dull light green with a long old-timey pointer aiming accusingly at oversized too high numbers by 11 years old scales were scary My childhood grocery store, Publix, had a big deli counter we got some of our deli meats there, though for […]

I liked it and often used it, yet I gave it away. Then I realized I loved it.   I was moving the fourth time in six years so many damn possessions every object more work. Now there’s not enough, Just the knee-deep clutter of Sadland.   The Lucite tray with the black horse and yellow […]

Oh, please be emptybut if fate does not allowat least have a dogNumbers fascinateso does the screen on my phonewish I could greet youTime passes quicklyEnter the slow-down machine:the elevatorLet me ride beforethe incontinent Great Danebig stinky puddlefine, stop on all floorslet the awkwardness increasehi, effing hate youLet 'vators evolvelight shows and custom musicwhee, let's […]

I met duck pond Debbie before computersbefore answering machinesbefore...well, I better stop. I’m not sure met is the right word. I was five years old (maybe four, maybe six)Life hadn’t beaten the crap out of me yet,so I was friendly and sweet.A girl close to my age was at the edge of the pond, next […]

Second to last day of schoolTomorrow, who gives a fucLast year my 6th graders dumped giant bags of Flaming Hot Cheetosinto a hastily washed storage bin,then added copious amountsof hot sauce and lemon juice.They polished off the whole thing.They also took all the play moneyfrom the ten or so sets of Pay Day gamesthat had […]