I’m not a fan of this cop-out rhyming “i” with “by” but I was on a roll at the time. I’ll go back to it…in several months, as seems to be my style.
One, Two, Buckle in my Knees and fall
JCD Kerwin
i tap the sidewalk crack
harder and harder,
hoping to hear the snap
in my own back;
maybe i’ll twist, contort;
become a grotesque sideshow
for passersbys
as they flit on by,
while i
watch my coffee
pool sadly
and flood anthills.
(April, 2014)
coffee and rain by ozlm on Flickr
PONGO
JCD Kerwin
the image
of a cup of java
(black-brown,
a hint of vanilla,
and steaming in just
the right
kind of swirls)
might seem
rather cliché,
but it’s the best way
i spend an afternoon,
hidden deep
in couch cushions,
and tapping my foot
to Frank Wes
and Miles Davis.
the water droplets
on my windowpanes
agree:
nothing cliché
about jazz rain.
(April, 2014)
I suppose that when you submit what you think is a really cool short story to a really cool science fiction magazine but then don’t hear anything for three months, so you query about your ms (per their guidelines), but then also don’t hear back about your query, you should probably–despite your pathetic hopes–add that submission to the rejection category and move on with your stupid, little existence.
Eh?
Yeah, that’s what I thought, too.
Aaaaaand that title has nothing to do with this blog entry. I’m helter-skelter. And I can’t write much of anything lately. Anything “short,” I mean. Just the novels. Sorry. I will post some older stuff. I swear. Pinky swear. D’aw.
You know that Novel That Will Get Me Published?
Well I must be buttah, because I’m on a roll!
And not one of those shitty rolls they reuse at those quick, turnover chain joints you direct mid-western tourists to go when they demand you tell them a “real Italian place.” Nah. The kind of roll Sal has his guys make fresh at that small, family-owned, family-run place you went on your first date like six years ago; the one off the beaten path, far down a couple blocks that only you and a handful of people know about that sells chicken Parmesan like your mom used to make when she still cooked like she gave a damn.
Yeah, I’m on that kind of a roll.
Hell yeah.
Get out and vote today! Do your civic duty!
I’m gonna rock the vote so hard today, you’d think MTV was still relevant. Word.
J.C.D. KERWIN 