Category Archives: Personality

Afternoon

Posted on April 4, 2022 by sputterpub

A rare event – I must’ve gotten high,for suddenly I’m craving food right now.I limit carbs a lot, and also trynot eating when I’m fasting. I know howto almost-Keto dine until today –I’m nearly overpowered by the driveto load a … Continue reading →

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Rebuttal

Posted on April 3, 2022 by sputterpub

My habitat is hidden from the street.I bought it for its perfect privacyamid a zone hospitable to feet,where I can hunker, carless, and be freefrom anybody dropping by. My dooris locked and I don’t want to be surprised.I’ve learned I … Continue reading →

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Attempting to Answer a Grown Son

Posted on April 1, 2022 by sputterpub

So vivid are my early memories,I trust my recollections till age 8,when time was passing slowly and no squeezeof adolescent pressure, blooming, weight,distracted my attention. Then the freightamounting blunted sight with addled stress.My teens and ever after I conflate.Your question … Continue reading →

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Affects

Posted on March 31, 2022 by sputterpub

She always sensed how much she didn’t know.Awareness of her ignorance increasedwith every year and every book. But “blow-hard” she was called – her talking seldom ceased.Imagining how smart a brain could bewas not outside her reach. She’d ever sensea … Continue reading →

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It Was a Dream

Posted on March 29, 2022 by sputterpub

It was a dream: a sleeping aperitif,disquieting and striking and extreme,behavior bound to carry heavy grief –it was a dream. It had a sudden murder for a theme:me perpetrating death as its motif –the horror unaccompanied by scream. I couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Seven at One Blow

Posted on March 27, 2022 by sputterpub

It got to where I played three games a dayof solitaire – the challenge deck on screen.And then a grandkid opened Wordle’s way,which soon had me engaged and kind of keen,evolving as it did to grid buffet.Of late I take … Continue reading →

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Considered Complaint

Posted on March 26, 2022 by sputterpub

Perhaps I need to be considered more,but I felt pissy yesterday, and mad.I nearly yelled at strangers in the store.I met no passing eyes. I mingled sadwith fierce contempt, disdain a launching padthat fired judgment into plaintive word.I felt alone. … Continue reading →

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Hoardino

Posted on March 22, 2022 by sputterpub

They have a crowded house. They buy in bulk,and don’t dispose as often as acquire.The smile boxes tower like a hulkin entryway – and though they say they’ll hirehelp before the situation’s dire,they model hoard behavior for their boy.Then he … Continue reading →

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Renée

Posted on March 21, 2022 by sputterpub

It wasn’t that she didn’t like the nameher father chose – she thought it undeserved.She didn’t have a chromosome of claimto French. Her heritage was ghetto lifein Poland, Russia (actually Ukraine),so how could she possess an accent mark?She dropped Renée … Continue reading →

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Advocations

Posted on March 20, 2022 by sputterpub

My mother said that I should practice law.But that won’t work. Although I argue well,she overlooked the mercenary flaw:it’s strictly my beliefs and thoughts I tell.A clump of friends and colleagues tried to sellthe notion teaching classes would fulfill.But I … Continue reading →

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