Cities
Pearl, how are you?
In cities folk live too close.
Huh?
You know things you shouldn't,
about each other. Right?
You have to love each other,
like family. Pearl?
Cities make things harder Pearl....
If I only knew how much fun I was really having...
Carol
Thrown to the ground
Stones strike bones, sting
Inhaling blond hair
Spitting, gagging, suffocating
Ungodly strength!
Holy shit, this is for real.
Slaps, punches glanced
Hair pulls work until
Boots for backup
....ribs.....
A quick lunge, flip
Pinned to the ground
Shoulders pinned, safe
......inhale....
Squarebriggs,
you're one tough gal.
Whew!
...
Hold your nose
The 2004 federal election is a mutant among mutants. Never before has the list of vital national concerns been so incredibly out of step with the choices Canadians are being offered. I'm hearing it everywhere. Comments like, "For the first time in my life I just don't know how I'm going to vote", are followed ...
Kellowna Bologna
Snack and Dooder settle in for a licking session on the recliner. They slide quickly into a top-of-head,-side-of-neck technique, and flow easily into the two-neck-lick which often has amusing outcomes. All of this prompts contemplation on how to rework "recline" into "reclaim" thus placing my favourite chair under rhetorical siege for want of any other attempt. ...
War on Terror arrives on Canadian streets
After thinking some more about the War on Terror being a civil war after writing this and I'm more convinced than ever.
If I lived in Sarnia and some power elite from Toronto, claiming a connection to the Canadian constitution and a direct lineage to John A MacDonald's first parliament, had destabilized my local town council by ...
"War on Terror" is a civil war
I believe the "war on terror" is about to "come home" in grand proportions; everything points to it, everything suggests the rage of the word is boiling over, everything suggests the US is completely incapable of protecting even its important institutions, and nothing suggests that massing troops in foreign lands has anything other than a worsening effect.
I watched ...
Mr. Nero sir, uh, the fire sir...
Greatest Canadian? What's this? "Who's the greatest Canadian?", they ask, and invite you to nominate someone of your choosing. What a perplexing conundrum; someone will be declared the "Greatest Canadian" in the most un-Canadian way possible. Cursed be s/he who becomes this pathetic creature while still among the living? To which ideals would ...
I Cesar
At a time when the Senate was becoming increasingly concerned over its ability to govern and defend an expanding empire, a low-level Roman general of smallish stature and nervous air, and known to be self-conscious about his receding hair line, crossed the river Rubicon and entered the territory now known as France. Comprising such wealth its rapid ...
Some ideas are better on paper...
As a former unionist in Local 1338 Carpenter's and Jointer's of America my attention was stirred from its usual Radio One-induced halcyonic state when I heard, "Carpenters' union launches construction company."
Later it was revealed to be a "non-profit" construction company. Aside from giggles about a union running a business and how that may leave the incorporation papers ...
More Spring Rituals
What is it about spring that gets me drinking Tim Horton's coffee again? Well, I can't explain that, but I know what stops me. Two things actually: the first is that acid reflux warning I get. Uh-huh, I'm so tuned into stomach stuff after a decade of ulcers, Pepto-bismal, Tums, and 2am runs for the ...