Category: Writing

Touchless Paradise

Sources

• Philip Brou, Mainer News (March 2020)
• REI mailer
• Leonardo’s Pizza coupons
• Kate’s butter packaging

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Let’s not call it an obligation

Who cares what the neighbors think, you're right, we do, we do our best but we're not about to spend more money just for some extra silence.

one in one’s own illuminated cone

Exclusive cheeseburger, bonus miles, be with you again shortly, home by 8:15. The Prayer of Saint Francis, a buzzer beater. I’ll write cards this trip but not if I can’t find stamps. By coming here from there we’ve merely traded …

what they do with me

Much of the writing I do (not much to speak of) is inspired by the writing of others, aspiring to be better than the bad, maybe even as good as the good. None of the writing so prompted succeeds. Much …

Behold this Monument to my Effort

It’s a dance they have us do, by law, in fact. One of the two steps is more imperative, by which I mean enforced, so you can wind up a ways off in one direction if you let them let …