Author Archives: sputterpub

1991

Posted on February 4, 2023 by sputterpub

A 2 raised to the power 5 resultsin tallied years since they had their affair.For 10 days then, two middle-aged adultsconversed, exposed, laid every detail bare.Outgoing both, they’d neither had a sharein any love so easy to convey.And though since … Continue reading →

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Other People’s Problems

Posted on February 3, 2023 by sputterpub

I bought the cottage 15 years ago.Its genesis in 1944was guest room in the yard, where it won’t show,behind a single-family shingled house.A college town, the place would undergoprogression into flats to rent, then buy.An H.O.A. of 5 at last, … Continue reading →

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Brain Draft

Posted on February 2, 2023 by sputterpub

Accused of thinking she knows everything,she’s smart enough to know that isn’t so.With every step of knowledge furthering,she glimpses how much farther she could go.And when she tries suppressing signs she’s bright,she fails to pull the bushel really tight.The lumens … Continue reading →

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Tints & Tones

Posted on February 1, 2023 by sputterpub

He saw the world in color, but his coursewas black & white cartoonish absolutes.His superheroes had explosive forceand all his villains acted thorough brutes.A man’s a man, and alpha is preferred;a woman misbehaving is a bitch.And so it stood until … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Agree

Posted on January 31, 2023 by sputterpub

I don’t agree with classic gender roles.They always seemed irrelevant to me.A human first, ignoring separate goals,I don’t agree. Of course I understand biology,but skeletons and muscles aren’t souls,and consciousness connotes some liberty. Simplistic attitudes are full of holes,and fundament … Continue reading →

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Morning Fast

Posted on January 30, 2023 by sputterpub

It’s usually not hard to wait till noonto break my fast. I never had a yenfor food on waking – I would just as soonlet most the morning pass without. Back whenI was a kid with parents who’d cocoonme if … Continue reading →

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Toward Castro

Posted on January 29, 2023 by sputterpub

Succeeding weeks of rain, the air’s so cleanit slaps my cheeks and soothing coats my throat.I’m walking to the Metro, and the sceneis gentle as a promenade. I floaton foot through color, like an antidoteto mudslides, teeming gutters, trees that … Continue reading →

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The Call Back

Posted on January 28, 2023 by sputterpub

The nightly call I never want to makethat she would miss, although we little speak –a check-in of some kind that doesn’t takemuch time but happens 7 days a week –last night produced a circumstance uniqueenough to mention here. She … Continue reading →

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Peeve (Subjective I)

Posted on January 27, 2023 by sputterpub

The older I become, the more I hatebehavior impolite or words that tryto rile. I have learned to modulatethe older I. I never went for any sort of lie.There’s murk and chaos in dishonest state.Exaggeration makes me question why. But … Continue reading →

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How to Fuck Yourself

Posted on January 26, 2023 by sputterpub

I noticed failure and it puzzled me.A person I respect and know is smartdecided to restrict her tendencyto buy another purse. I watched her start.I heard the resolution to be freeof sales for half a year. No shopping cartwould tempt … Continue reading →

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