Honest Chaos

My people married their first cousins and passed on crooked backs and congenital deafness - my people scraped desert island hills into terraces and pleaded with the earth - my people gathered the rain in cisterns hidden beneath their huts.   There was never enough, and poverty only begets beauty and generosity in the movies. It's only true children are fear and jealousy. And that is why my people set sail and did not return.

Spoken word. See text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-first-day-of-spring.html

Friend from Childhood's Last Days Would I recognize youall these years laterfriend from childhood's last days?From bottomless time playing Atariand banana seat bicycles riding over cracked sidewalkslate into summer nights?How have you aged, with adad-bod belly and a receding hairline?or are you just divorce-worn,living aloneexcept every other weekend?What have you become, what with your skills at Space Invadersand your facility with the Rubic's Cube?If you saw me,would you know me?Would we pull out two Huffy's from behind the shed of memoryand pedal off together once moreby the blue glow glory of the street lamps?

Spoken word. Text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/01/leonardos-first-flight.html

Spoken word. More at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-residents.html

Spoken word. Words here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/unleashed.html

Spoken word. https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/when-it-was-not.html 

Text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-it-begins-again.html

Spoken word piece about running out of time. see written piece here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/05/us-who-are-lucky.html

Spoken word piece - some days you can't be. words: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-am-only-fool.html

A spoken word piece about gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins Written here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/gluttony.html

A spoken word piece about Envy, the worst of the 7 deadly sins written: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/banishment.html

A spoken word piece about the thinness between reality and the mystical More at: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-path-between-worlds.html

Spoken word piece about the damn cat and his morning howling.  Text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-cat-is-awake.html

a spoken word piece text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/02/office-of-days.html

A spoken word piece about winter. For text, see https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/01/collective-action.html 

A spoken word piece about the frustrations of being young and not knowing better. See https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/01/youth.html 

At the end of a semester, saying goodbye. The class vs. the students. Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/empty-classroom.html

text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-game.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/08/45365-driving-to-work.html