Maudlin House

It started with the pot. My wife had texted me, while I was at work on Friday, that she stopped at a dispensary and bought some flower.  “Party weekend!” That day the dispensary was having a special sale to the first 200 people who came into the store.  For $40 dollars she had gotten a quarter of 4 different strains, two packages of gummies, 8 prerolls, and some resin that me...

“That,” Martin says, “is the World’s Largest Rocking Chair.” And it actually rocks, he says—it wouldn’t be eligible for the designation otherwise. He gets this from the plaque out front, but relays it to his son with the authority of someone who knows everything about everything—and does, in the eyes of this boy who has learned from him to fish, to throw, to separate sunflowe...

there’s a detective in the corner of our I : it’s jetsam and quite a while : unavoidably

thereafter in pools of starstruck : begin : profess doubt : be brunette : take note of

the self : until the exhausting episodic loci pendulums open didacticism :

etch-a-sketch an ancient Americana into toothsome sentences : those two by two

trailblazers : vagar...

of course he is the winner–

gold-plated decadence sits on mahogany,

“JIM HALPERT” reads victoriously

as my envy turns to vengeance.

he is effortless,

I am flawed;

he, a ripe sweet potato & I, a bruised beet. 

my mauve flesh is raw & brittle.

Jim’s Ipomoea Batatas skin is firm,

it holds with dignity,...

Bloomberg reported that Rebecca’s ex-husband was going to prison. She came into the office with a big beautiful smile on her face as if nothing happened, but obviously she’s never had a big beautiful smile before, carrying a big fluff of flowers in her office and slamming the door. I had known they were done-zo for a while, but damn, the article was tough. No one who b...