Category Archives: Philosophy

Sateen

Posted on September 10, 2019 by sputterpub

My 90 year-old mother said to me (she’s really 93, but that’s too much for meter), that she’d like her bed to be equipped with linens softer to the touch. “I have two sets of sheets. But I’m not keen … Continue reading →

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Ordinary Rudeness

Posted on August 29, 2019 by sputterpub

We often disagree, my closest friend and I, about mundane experience. Mature and metro, we should comprehend alike discourtesy. Imperious she waxes if her path should intersect with rudeness from a stranger. There’s a role that breached she calls a … Continue reading →

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Love is a Symptom

Posted on August 15, 2019 by sputterpub

With love the subject of the poems and songs, and love the object people crave the most, philosophers assume that love belongs atop the list of human wants. A host of minds agree on that, excluding mine. We know our … Continue reading →

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The Omniscients

Posted on August 13, 2019 by sputterpub

My father was the guru of my youth, responding to my questions patiently. It felt as if he always told the truth – he gave me answers with calm mastery, or helped me understand we haven’t yet. We ranged from … Continue reading →

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Fans

Posted on July 29, 2019 by sputterpub

I love two people into watching sports. I can’t assert I understand the draw. Enthusiasm they insist supports their teams – it matters – but I never saw the evidence, and when I’m in the zone (not often or heroic, … Continue reading →

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Arborism

Posted on July 25, 2019 by sputterpub

While classic symbolism’s long been held for art produced in oil, words, and notes, I saw, I read, I heard and I rebelled. I argued only ignorance devotes itself to elementary attitude, like woman is the moon and man the … Continue reading →

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The Genie’s Joke

Posted on July 18, 2019 by sputterpub

I thought I’d wish for wealth. But I soon learned no matter what I saved or spent, or how invested, I’d forego the power earned from earning, obligated to endow. Then specifying leisure time instead, I planned to take the … Continue reading →

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Silver Lining

Posted on July 15, 2019 by sputterpub

Of course nobody wants catastrophe. For all the drama, everyone invokes affection, peace, domestic harmony, sufficient stimulation. Someone jokes about the time to study jail affords: the space to write a novel in your cell, the limits in the yard … Continue reading →

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Missing

Posted on July 11, 2019 by sputterpub

I lost a friend two years ago. She died alone, unwell: unwelcome news that stunned us all, although we know how she defied most critical advice. Conditions gunned for her at last: a metabolic bomb. She never cared enough to … Continue reading →

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Don’t Stop Now

Posted on July 3, 2019 by sputterpub

When you were 12 years old, your father quit his job, his engineering work, his life in many ways. He took to home, to sit and view a hundred channels with his wife. He never more felt vigorous or well … Continue reading →

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