Broken Records and Last Cigarettes
Broken record playing the same chopped-up chorus on repeat. The words spin closer together with every turn. I’m down to my last cigarette. It’s not…
Author: Josiah Pilskalns
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Lost Girl
She wanted to be saved from what she had become. She wanted also and perhaps more profoundly to be tortured for all that she might…
Greasy Pockets
An oil tanker filled to the gills passes through the Strait of Hormuz. On either side encamped armies play soccer like the men they really…
College Bound
Stepping lightly across a flight bridge I duck my head as I enter the small charter jet that will take me to Denver Colorado. I…
Walking the Worlds Edges
The internal beauty of persistent struggle is not inlaid with gold, but with desperate serenity. Walk the knife’s edge, toes curled around its jagged shape…
The Shadow
The venomous intention leached itself to my hollow words and suddenly they were alive. Their strength announced my own presence onto an open stage. The…
On the Water
Placid masterpiece written on the water teach me your language and I’ll teach it to men’s daughters Vibrant blue painted among the pages delight my…
Beautiful Words
I have beautiful words that flow just beneath my skin, when I write them down, I cash them in They no longer belong to me…
Life is a Lesson
I relied in my strength and quickly discovered where I am weak. I trusted in wisdom which revealed to me a fool. I tried to…
