Archive for February 2012
High School Grades of Earl Warren
enter archives at bakersfield high school look left at long glass case displaying handwritten grade book note highlighted name earl warren read four years reports revealing history his best subject and three times earned his top grade in final quarter many students before and since doubtless had similar trajectories only didn’t become three term governor…
Read MoreBobby Brown – The Whole Truth
Before presenting what Bobby Brown allegedly said and did, I must explain this book was originally conceived as an autobiography and author Derrick Handspike, according to his account, hung out with and interviewed the singer for a year, diligently wrote the book, and later squirmed as Brown and his advisers delayed final preparations for publication.…
Read MoreCow Sense
on side cow’s legs forever extend toward chewers and a head stuck in barbed wire looks confused
Read MoreRelative Real Estate
newspaper says going to be one oh three in bakersfield seventy three in santa barbara but former has lower housing prices
Read MoreMemo to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
do not burn the koran intentionally or unintentionally and do not use it for target practice
Read MoreAnimals in Office
swine snorts at talent wish i’d wonder if too late reptile darts and hisses insinuating problems exist wish i’d wonder if too late hyena snarls at herself through others wish i’d wonder if too late
Read MoreOral Alarm Clock
deep voice grinds my name too early every morning
Read MoreJust One More
said have drink come on let’s party least one more now no one listens so exhorts himself
Read MoreSupermarket Bulletins – Part 2
in supermarket checkout line headlines and color photos pronounce this star’s fatter than you that one’s more wrinkled both had botched plastic surgery another’s anorexic he’s drunk they’re addicted she’s in treatment he’s in jail she’s spendthrift he’s abusive she’s vain he’s unfaithful so’s she wonder what rag publishers are like
Read MoreWhitney Houston, 1963-2012
one beautiful as whitney houston who made star spangled banner soar and moved heaven singing i’ll always love you may harbor soul broken as man in gutter and seek relief same way To watch Whitney Houston sing the National Anthem before the 1991 Super Bowl, please click here
Read MoreRichard Nixon Where Are You
Richard Nixon called his first congressional opponent a commie, in ‘fifty senatorial race painted Helen Gahagan Duglas pink before trouncing her, and as vice president under Eisenhower snuggled with Joe McCarthy. By late ‘fifties he already wanted to invade Castro’s Cuba which however imperfect had just freed itself from American lackey Batista. After losing, perhaps…
Read MoreBig Al Allosaurus Responds to Brother – Part 2
How strange my brother accuses me of predatory incompetence and cognitive ineptitude. Let me clarify dark history with precision dear brother never practiced or understood. As youngsters he frequently tried to maim me and other siblings but I always overpowered him and rebuked with restrained bites. Our mother never disciplined him and would’ve perhaps turned…
Read MoreBrother Allosaurus Remembers Big Al – Part 1
I’m not jealous my brother Big Al receives much publicity a hundred fifty million years after death. In life we emerged from the same subterranean nest of a hundred allosaurus eggs and soon, following carnivorous instinct, bit, clawed, and wrestled each other, and serendipitously survived while most siblings died from illnesses or attacks by dinosaurs…
Read MoreThe Right Room
first time on puerto vallarto tour quite hungover stand at basin looking into fright woman pops up behind and says sir are you aware this is women’s years later long sober at bakersfield movie women enter one says what’s guy doing in here leaving rapidly forget to say heat intoxication
Read MoreEternal Taliban
This story is from the collection “Obama on Edge”
Read MoreMadonna Teases Super Bowl Audience
hey some guy flipped off america during super bowl halftime show few noticed nonevent but bible busters protested when should’ve imagined madonna fifties fit in parked or moving cars on sofas in reading chairs on or under dining room tables planning to disappear in smoke revealing message world peace
Read MoreLiberated Computer
omniscient computer denies access to my pictures file
Read MoreOver Written
novels over written short stories over written poetry
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