Sharing the World with the Undead
Biographical Musings from the Zombie Jar
A few haiku etc. from the semi-recent past: Going to the airport at Thanksgiving Stop start in the darkThanksgiving plane clusterfuckCargo road again Desperate peopleStruggling to reach far exitsAll crawl to O’Hare. J Turner In a restaurant Short-circuiting: I watch eyes go wide then blank Put that phone down, kid!Brains misused are brains you lose.Fried… Read More
3 haiku standing alone or in order: On November 3rdCostco deals overwhelm me —But a new car key! Yesterday’s crazyEnds in dumped purses scatteredAcross my landscape After church I restI will reorder my messOne day at a time. Jocelyn the Plaid
An app here, an app there, and pretty soon our phone screens become a crazy mess of clutter we cannot even recognize sometimes. What is that italicized Z or off-center popsicle inside the purple square with the rounded corners? Zedge, it says. I look up Zedge. It’s a wallpaper app. But I create my own… Read More
In September of 2021, I weighed 123.8 pounds, and I guess I cared because I wrote that down. In July of 2024, I weigh 123 odd pounds as well. I got that weight-recording thing from my mom. She repeatedly told the story of her Aunt Ethel, who was apparently so obese that she got stuck… Read More
Believe. Believe a life written in moments, Moments remembered and moments lost in time, Becomes more than memories, More than lost knowledge. Flexing and fluxxing, flowing into New Years and new years, One after another, As art equals life and life art — While beliefs struggle for and against Lifelong learning. Who I am is… Read More
A POEM BY WENDELL BERRY To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. The next total solar eclipse falls on August 12, 2026. This… Read More
I watch as schools are closed, sold or leased, the already outsourced maintenance workers forced to move on or merely shift locations. If it is Tuesday, we clean “The Latest Healthcare Facility to Replace a Dead, Large Retail Space” instead of the empty, boarded up school of last year. Where do the battered, aged Chromebooks… Read More
So I am working on getting the second book out. At some point, I need to focus on alerting people to the first book. But here is a book cover idea sent to me: We put a giant magnifying glass on top of the front cover, with light streaming through and down to a point,… Read More
Really, the crone is rather fascinating. It takes a special person to decide to weaponize a dog park — a special person to pull up to a park and immediately start taking movies to send off to animal control even though there are only three dogs in the whole park, they are all pretty close… Read More
Conversation with Shasta: (End 2023) (Shasta and Mommy are on an airplane, flying to Chicago after a five-day visit. Mommy is comfortable in her loose, gunmetal-gray, Free People travel outfit, although she ended up getting patted down thoroughly because of her voluminous clothing. That TSA woman even tapped across her chest and inner thighs. Mommy… Read More
