On the occasion of coming across Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lady. Lawsuits and suicide Then it was lawsuits and no suicide? You think I’m gonna run and hide? When I’ve been living’ this same old nightmare on repeat, on repeat, on repeat, on repeat — Shilpa Ray, Lawsuits and Suicide…

[ Stretch, two, ] — Soon I — [ three, four, ] will fig — [ five, six, ]ure out how — [ hold it for ] many days — [ nine, ten.] I have been alive and that number will replace the date, or at least rest beside it…

It occurred to me that at this point money is more important than life. Take DAT and abortion. Technology created both — technology is not a God-/natural-given right. But women can have abortions — technology is not withheld from them. But with DAT, first we were not allowed to sell…

We are beating our heads against a cement sea, and soon they’re gonna pop open and our faith won’t hold our skulls together and we’ll need medical attention, and we’ll have to pay for our Medicare and we’ll need a job and this is what happened to the hippie generation…

My grandfather died with the closing/opening night of the rock opera. All that I ever got from him was his little crucifix that used to ride in the Dodge Dart with him and I. { Must we always discard these small register receipts, tell-tale ticking time bombs of steps retraced…

We all seek in our old age progressions, this self-induced journey | two fingers down those throats |, a confessor, someone whom we believe can absorb all of our sins. Most of us settle for someone who doesn’t really care for them. God cares for his followers as much as…

So here I sit in Kutner’s office { The surgeon’s tremulous hands shook the scalpel as they approached the chest cavity… } — one with white walls, soft Muzak, and no clocks. { Yet I hear the ticking of dog tags wrapped around stationary toes, lost their boots in the…

So therein lies the problem with women’s lib. Women are trying to succeed in a man’s world and as shall it always remain a man’s world. Why do the sharpest feminists tend to adopt the bad habits of men? What does that prove except that men’s creations are so {…

See there! { Bionic myopia — vision fogged with the inaleatoric concept of objectification, wherein sits just anything you can imagine. } A son is born { Generous thanks to you for the lack of precision; burdened with the knowledge of metaphor or biorealism needn’t be we — imagination prevails…