Double Stuf Oreos are only 1.86 times as stuffed as classic Oreos.   24% of deaths from the ages of 15-24 are from suicides.   Opossums are so excited when they are scared they pass out.   Mental disorders in youth are ranked as the…

(after Octavia Butler’s “Earthseed”) there’s this place where I am special I can feel others feels famine, war, tyranny, this all complicates things so I travel on foot picking up other travelers I hope are safe victims children healers and others afflicted with being special…

“Don’t use the funnies for your painting. I want to clip them out later.” “Can you imagine that girl didn’t know she was pregnant?” “Do you think I could be pregnant and not know it?” “Do you think you could be pregnant and not know…

Blocked by the skyscraper A sunset spreads its waning light upon periwinkle clouds as the heartbeat of the city slows

In Idaho, some twenty-years ago, I chanced upon a moldy, old high school beau, A forest ranger in rubber gumboots with forty-something, middle-aged spread (Acknowledging old girl friends from more than a while ago engenders dread) with yellow hair graying, and eyes no longer that…

I thought my ‘soulmate’ would fit me like a puzzle piece a perfect fit the yin to my yang bread to my cheese until you entered and proved that soulmates don’t exist. You didn’t fit into my flaws you weren’t the half I was looking…

be everything you always have and don’t let anyone tell you you’re not

Dear church; I have so many questions so many things to find out that someone needs to answer Why do you love on me so much? Haven’t you been paying attention to what I’ve done? I’ve tried to get it right time and again I’ve…

Don’t let them see you coming Make sure to appear suddenly like a mist arising from dawn Don’t let them see you coming Lest the naysayers who are always adept at saying no, say the usual, nay Don’t let them see you coming Be a…

Mitch Brown Hr 11 Word salad The cloud floats over a periwinkle sky The birds thread the needle as they pass by The old man feeds them sourdough Although the forest ranger says no Their wings they beat and up they soar And pass the…