Category Archives: Behavior Modification

Tantrum

Posted on May 26, 2017 by sputterpub

I’m done with counting carbs and calories. I don’t like summing minutes for my bills. Fatigued by all the bullet lists that freeze me more than fire me, I’m lately ill on numbers, and I need to take a break. … Continue reading →

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Design

Posted on May 18, 2017 by sputterpub

Redundancy’s a benefit in smart design, along with sensors and alerts. And symmetry’s a necessary part, aesthetically and practically. Then hurts are not catastrophes. Malfunctions do occur, but engineering kept in mind the likely fails and rarer problems too, so … Continue reading →

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Patient Progress

Posted on May 8, 2017 by sputterpub

My belly is a pouch of ripply fat that hangs apart whenever I prepare to touch the floor, and on my lap it sat last night when I relaxed within my chair. My buttocks have an action all their own. … Continue reading →

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Titration

Posted on April 20, 2017 by sputterpub

Now I’ve been smoking pot for 50 years. At 17, Gail offered me that toke. I liked it even better than my peers: Discovering that I was born to smoke (my mom inhaling cigarettes 3 packs a day when I … Continue reading →

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Breakage

Posted on September 23, 2016 by sputterpub

In general, the goods that we create we can repair, but sometimes we must start afresh with new design, and orchestrate a different way, and pull our stuff apart, to make it well. At times a damaged bone requires breaking … Continue reading →

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RLP

Posted on August 25, 2016 by sputterpub

Location was a fact of World War II. They happened to be here in ‘41 and stuck on visas. Everything they knew inspired them to angle for the sun. Tecate, then, for precious latitude of Nazareth and wealth of golden … Continue reading →

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Fat Sonnet

Posted on August 19, 2016 by sputterpub

With swollen legs and burning heart and every cell athirst, with flesh as tight as drumskin and a roughened tongue accursed from all the salts and fats and sweets that nearly made me burst, I pen this song of pig-and-bloat, … Continue reading →

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Re

Posted on August 16, 2016 by sputterpub

To Whom It May Concern, the contract read, and Be It Known, In All Events, To Wit, for Time Is Of The Essence, someone said, and now’s essentially appropriate for purposing in private to amend – desired more than any … Continue reading →

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Two-Thirds of a Box of Matzo

Posted on April 19, 2016 by sputterpub

I cut the sugar out 9 months ago. It wasn’t tough. As if I’d had enough, I stopped the nightly treats. And I can’t crow about my will – I didn’t want sweet stuff. I lost 5 pounds, and then … Continue reading →

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Trick

Posted on March 7, 2016 by sputterpub

The trick (I’ll make this quick), if that’s the word to best describe an easy thing once done that, prior to completion, seemed absurd or difficult – most anything but fun – the trick requires neither wit nor heart, but … Continue reading →

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