Author Archives: sputterpub

Re-uppance

If I continue living, I will fail by increments – I fear the hearing’s next. The years fling inflammation and assail the circulation and I’m undersexed already, bent to burp with gas attacks, reducing height and vigor every year, obtaining … Continue reading →

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Sleep Study

Asleep my fellows wander through a maze without a clue of strategy or thread. Somnambulating heavy are their days as dense as night, as if they’re walking dead who cannot even note what path they took. They live oblivious in … Continue reading →

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Basics

It’s just about time to go back to school. Or at least to learning, even if the lesson is something already learned (but not fully accepted) about the futility of keeping a new year’s resolution in the darkest coldest season of … Continue reading →

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Greek to Me

And it came to pass that I went to college. There were a few weeks that last high school year when I conjectured that I might not attend, that it might be better for me to proceed directly to the … Continue reading →

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Auto-Doc

I notice flaws in others as I move around – I see my friends grow old and stout, my relatives relapse. I would improve the lots of most I love – I have no doubt my cure is best; my … Continue reading →

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Flux

I used to sleep so well and heal so fast, and what was then I thought would still be now, for I’m as much myself as I was last December 31st. I don’t know how the hour hand that I … Continue reading →

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School Films

Most of the movies we were shown in school were not good. Film strips reminded me of ViewMaster experiences, and the reels we screened were in general shot by mediocre camera people and narrated by patronizing voices. That’s not to … Continue reading →

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Prejudice and Discrimination

Talk about a couple of negative words! The nouns in today’s title suggest unfairness, bigotry, racism even. It wasn’t always that way. It isn’t always that way now. Awhile ago I got sued. It wasn’t fair, but the wheels of … Continue reading →

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Oyster

A trespasser insinuates its grit through corrugated portals. So it’s gone and ever will; the sand is infinite as insects, inexorable as dawn. The host is irritated and reacts by isolating, coating, adding size until that laminate through cataracts of … Continue reading →

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Tigridia

The metal railing warm against my hand where sunlight silvers it, and striping cool beneath the shade, I fully understand: Such education doesn’t need a school. The turn of leaves of birch upon the breeze, that captures green as sequins … Continue reading →

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