Pretty As You Feel

Over the course of 66 years (and still), I have encountered so many women (including my still lovely ex-wife) in person and…

National Vietnam Veterans Day, So What?

This is America, everything gets its day. Yesterday was National Vietnam Veterans Day. For…

Why It Is Dangerous To Love A Poet

You must give him your life.
He won’t settle for less. 
He will turn it into poetry
and become you…

Why It Is So Difficult To Be A Romantic Man In America

If You Could Just Love Me Back…

Like a blast from the past,
It’s amazing how I can still recall,
Of how I fell for you years ago,
So hard I get a migraine,
Whenever I think of the conversations we had,
Was it your name, 
Which sounded musical, melodious nonetheless arousing,
Was it your​ smile on the…

PTSD

A beast in your heart
with an itchy trigger finger.
Only takes the tiniest prompt.
Your brain erupts shrapnel.
Zero to 1,000 in a second.
No brake…

Rays of Hope…

In the heart of Nairobi slums,
She lay down in the shack,
Immersed in deep thoughts,
Squinty eyes peeling open slowly,
As if the light was hurting,
Cloak of desperation and desolation,
Could be seen all over her feeble self,
Her heart beating and resonating of regret...
'Men are a joke' she murmured in…

Surreal Screenwriter Needed. Apply Within.

Having reached a certain age, I thought I might write my memoir, but quickly realized…

Biology, Evolution, And War

Your average
testosterone drenched
nineteen year old soldier
wakes up every combat morning
desiring only three…