To: The People of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Members of the Commonwealth For the past seventy years and twenty nine days, I have ruled this country with an iron fist. Yes, when my fist lands on this table, the metal ores and diamonds raped from your lands clang together. I haveContinue reading “Memorandum”
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Happy International Women’s Day
I have largely ignored International Women’s Day. It has gotten lost among the proliferation of meaningless, monikerous days, weeks and months that we have designated to bring “awareness” to various issues. There’s National Debt Awareness Week, a salute to capitalism, There’s a National Do Your Fucking Job Day and Week for every single profession (I’veContinue reading “Happy International Women’s Day”
N. I. P. P. L. E.
It’s hard being a popstar, man. All that gyrating gets wearisome and sometimes I wanna jazz things up a little, but the record label usually says Hell no. One time, though, me and Janet took the reins. It was Super Bowl XXXVIII and halftime was ours. Me and Janet masterminded the plan that ultimately cementedContinue reading “N. I. P. P. L. E.”
Los Mexicanos
They alighted the train at 125th street. Not the type who enter at Grand Central. Not unusual. But today I noticed the family. All tiny, Three kids, woman, Man. Speaking Spanish Probably Taino Indians Probably not It doesn’t matter. The woman and three girls sat down, not together, scattered across the train In the sparselyContinue reading “Los Mexicanos”
DIVOC’S ARMY
Our only prenup agreement was to never yell at each other. We’d both been products of broken homes, so we’d decided to always use our inside-voices. But Tim had been acting strangely for three weeks now, and I’d had it. “Honey! It’s like I don’t know you anymore!” He was staring at me, well, throughContinue reading “DIVOC’S ARMY”
THE ROUGH DRAFT 