A Most Excellent Trip

The black and white television screen flashes to a bald man The color of his suit is a bright blue and with a blink of his eye, I fall forward into the glass of my Hennessy colored table Purple and turquoise fog clouds my eyes…

Road To Broadway [Prompt 20]

Child of the Arts… Dance classes … Felt like a star; in tap shoes and leotard! Begged parents to make a star… move to California? No! Mom sings opera. I hate opera. Joined the theatre… Fell in love, with theatre, of course! Mom said, “You…

Prompt 20, Hour 16

Skip and hop Skip and hop I skip and hop After I throw that rock Down the blocks it is taking me To new sights I’ve never seen Even though I know It is only across the street However not one step further I’m allowed…

Universal Music

It’s dark, and our turn to face the truth. Do you see it as we wander this celestial route? They stay the same, or so we think, but they move in unison, almost, along the warps and wiggles of time. Listen. Do you hear the…

Missed it

We set out to cross the country in three days. Three of us and a new boyfriend in his car a sack full of cassettes And barely enough prerolled joints to make it all bearable We made it all the way to the canyon just eighty…

Last Call

Surrending to the chaos we wait for the call. The destination predicted to end us all. One by one we look up towards the sky, many still questioning why. There is no fire, nor storm, or rain just simply pain. Cascading around us like a…

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

Have a crazy bunch of people around me Who care for me in every special way!! Feels just yesterday, we started off together on the path, Who knew, we would be as we are today! I look back.. Years gone by, I now see in…

The Rest of the Story

There will be no Apocalypse. No ending of the world. Certainly no ending of me. Oh, they of the balance of Light and darkness, Young Loves unaware of The nature of me, Gather shells like squirrels Before winter. And happiness still eludes them. Why? Like…

Hold My Hand When the World Ends

The world has come to an end It’s a sea of black And I can’t find my friend The world has come to an end There was a bang and a crash My cell phone rang The world has come to an end He managed…

Drift

In neon chromatic I skim in a machine that purrs. The wheel smooth as it responds in hairpin curves, Lazy winding on glass smooth blacktop And roaring engines that snarl hungry plumes To a cityscape blur. I’m slipping, sliding, gears slick and tuned Flowing as…