There are just a handful – very few – people to whom I refuse to speak. Sometimes it’s because their behavior has been criminal. No point in mincing words, but I prefer not to speak to criminals. They all get cut off at some point…

He did it on purpose… driving me crazy to feed his ego. Oh, how clear I see it now, thirty years hence. “Call me! I dare you! Call me on that number listed online. I’ll listen, then remain proud behind your back.” Oh, love, it’s…

Ego! Ergo I might fall for some stupidity or another. How my mind works to fool me into fantasy, imagining what could have been, but isn’t. Pretending for the sake of verse. I feel it and think it’s real. It’s not! It never was. Well,…

  Sleep is his absolute favourite 12 hours a day, that’s just basic A comfortable blanket and ample space That’s how he likes to savour it Any hour of the day he picks Not a cuddler but loves curling up That’s my cat, a tiny…

Awake for over twenty-four hours at work on a project pulling an all-nighter far easier when I was far younger My clock got sluggish at three A.M. and all I hear in my head is Cat Stevens singing ‘Morning has Broken…’ I need to add…

I once read a book by a guy who turned fifty, went to circus camp trained to be a trapeze artist most difficult lesson to learn was to let go of the bar simple concept; if you don’t let go you don’t fly the metaphor…

  Stardust Stardust on hands on soft moist fingertips stardust on lips and cocoa brown skin stardust filters through curly coils stardust it glitters everywhere touched everywhere lingered, everywhere loved it’s you only you the stardust of my dreams  

Preaching tenderness he smiled at her, steaks on grill now picnic for one – Mark L. Lucker © 2022 http://lrd.to/sxh9jntSbd

An uncanny friendship between two women Bonded through pain and suffering Eventually, they escaped, but how and when

Hobbits famously tell of their dietary habits especially mornings most definitely second breakfast Not living in a cozy shire nor having large fairly hairy feet I can still speak to the efficacy of breakfast two For second breakfast simply put is actually fifth coffee or…