Prose & Poetry

Fragments & thoughts April 22

Apr 22nd, 2009 | By | Category: Fragments and Thoughts, Lyrics, Prose & Poetry

April 22 Ford Falcon rounds the corner as I’m waiting to cross a defective muffler that shouts at me as he plants his foot to beat the traffic racing the bridge he doesn’t know just around the bend is a ‘divvy’ van with checkered police eager to test his breath like they did with mine [...]



Fragments and Thoughts April 14

Apr 15th, 2009 | By | Category: Fragments and Thoughts, Prose & Poetry

April 15 a colleague overheard saying “that’s the problem with teenage drinking, a bunch of young girls were flaunting it on a train attracting the attention of drunken uni students zooming in on them f’ in this f’ in that the girls were apparently an ‘insult to the profession’” April 12- Sunday walk Drooping rose [...]



The day Cash Played Folsom Prison

Apr 14th, 2009 | By | Category: Fragments and Thoughts, Prose & Poetry, short stories

Based on an article I read in ‘Sunday life’ – original story appeared in The Telegraph U.K. I’d been living in Los Angeles since I was seven years old my daddy was a truck driver mama worked the county court when I was 11 they divorced and I started doing some bad things Pretty soon [...]



Mihn Trahn Bakery

Apr 9th, 2009 | By | Category: Fragments and Thoughts, Prose & Poetry

Down at the bakery, they’re always asking me as they piece together a slice of ham and a sliver of cucumber “sul, pepper, may’naise” no, that’s not a spelling mistake but the way the say it down at the Mihn Trahn They’re exceedingly eager to deliver their question looking up with those puppy dog eyes, [...]



A wedding Dream

Apr 6th, 2009 | By | Category: Prose & Poetry

In a caravan outside a misty office I had been called for musician duties You were looking uncertain a grey northern light filtered in through the curtain I wasn’t sure, but that caravan seemed more like a food van you know selling hot dogs and pies The last I knew he was happily married a [...]