Ah, routine That old anesthetic Digging into the familiar To escape the terrifying and uncertain Condemning the future to death So it can…

It can be tempting sometimes, reviewing my life on the cusp of fifty, to fret that I should have myself together by now. The image I have in my head of a half-century vintage man is much less chaotic than the daily consternation and confusion I seem to live in. …

At times, the realization that no matter when I die, I will leave behind a giant pile of unfinished creative projects can be comforting. I know I’ll never be done, so I don’t get in a hurry. But in recent times, when people in the neighborhood of my age are…

Dreams are heavy I feel the weight of them Browsing my shelf of discs Collected over decades Each jewel case Each cardboard slipcover Each one a dream A hard-fought struggle A triumph of the will Over so many obstacles There it is Complete Unique Alongside so many others Taken together, they are massive You can’t lift them all But individually So small So disposable…

(from a dream) This ship is strange I’m not sure how I got aboard Dark grey surfaces Banging metal in unknown corners We pull into Somewhere Mass motion, bodies shuffling An exit Debarking The lighting warms Some sort of large building Convention hall sterile Impersonal beige An odd certainty…

Dear CERN, I am writing because I believe you want to do the right thing. Though it has been denied, all the evidence points to the weasel incursion at the Large Hadron Collider in 2016 as the event that shunted us off into this dark timeline. Don’t argue, it’s science. …

Most Americans are bilingual. We don’t think about it, but a lot of us can slip into the language of religion with relative ease, even if we weren’t raised with it. I stopped attending church at age five, but through rural osmosis, picked up the tongue regardless. In younger years…

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Humans create idols. The one that gets worshiped with the most fervor is The Market. Its existence enables us to watch inhumane things and say, well, that’s what The Market will bear. The Market believes hedge fund managers are worth more to our society than daycare workers. The Market thinks…