Usually, when referring to moments when his inattention to something became embarrassingly apparent.
Understatement!
Short naps are great, for all intensive porpoises.
A quick rest here.
Grab a cot there.
Head down on desk, earbuds on stun.
Phased out, tuned out.
The inability to control consciousness would strike my mother, from time to time.
Sometimes she’d fall asleep with a live Newport in a variety of knuckles.
A supple snoring burn.
Glowing red, burrowing wormholes in woolen housecoats.
Surrendering mostly good clothes to good will is not as therapeutic as it might sound.
How many burnt holes decides the usefulness of a garment?
Who decides?
The rain still soaks through, even when you use an umbrella.
Especially, when you are cleaning out the rooms of a loved one that succumbed to the dirt nap.
Note: dirt nap is not a short nap.
The long nap, as it were, is, and will ever be.
Short naps are great, but…
sometimes you wake up less refreshed.
Waking rage. Sleep walking daze.
Turn of phrase, to say…
maybe,
just maybe,
short naps, aren’t that great?
A very special thank you, to my parents, for turns of phrase, worries, and life lessons from beyond the dirt nap. True compasses, evermore.
40/40: Summer Poem Slam-a-bam is a project in which people have joined me for 40 days and 40 nights of on-demand poetry. They have submitted the concepts, ideas, and subjects; I’ve done the rest.
Welcome to my effort. Yes, as a great procrastinator, it requires great effort to stay focused on something productive that matters to me. I’ll find any old excuse to traipse from project to project, and I rarely end up at the place I started. I find this maddening, and exhaustive. So it is with high hopes, and a greater grasp of self-awareness, that I embark upon staying the course so to speak.
I enjoy writing. Be it blogs, fiction, poetry, etc. I love the craft and the act of creation, the art in and of itself, for it’s own sake and end. I am happy to be able to do it.
Some stats:
Born: March 1974
Education:
St.Francis de Sales, Charlestown MA
Don Bosco Technical High School, Boston MA
University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell MA
Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown MA
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
North Virginia Community College, Arlington VA
Harvard Extension School, Cambridge MA
Place of residence: Somewhere in the land of metro Boston. It’s vaguely familiar and becoming home more and more by the day, but when you come from “The Town” all else fails by comparison.
Favorite Color: I’m partial to all forms of blue.
Favorite Author: c’mon! don’t expect me to answer that, there are too many.
I enjoy memories of playing 80’s Atari better than playing any advanced gaming system that exists today.
Some day:
Hope to be recognized for my paper clip collection. As well as my 27 rejected applications to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailiey Clown college.
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