Two Years, Fifteen Pieces ~ May 2021 — February 2023 — I’ve been at it since I was fifteen years old, when I took a bus to Washington DC, to join the 100,000 or so to protest the war in Vietnam. Y’see, I didn’t agree with the idea that I should be trained as a soldier and sent to the other…

Avarice In Wonderland — Co-authored with Remington Write. Photos: “Life Underground” art installation by Tom Otterness at the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station, New York City. Photos by AleXander Hirka. Digressing Up To The Macro It was while my partner Tammy Remington and I were talking about our apartment building’s management companies — their…

Restless Horizontal — He lay his head on the pillow, eyes closing to the outlines of the room created by the streetlight through the curtains. And so his ears took over the vigilance. As his body relaxed on the bed he pulled a cool smooth sheet over himself. They had made love. She was…

A Poem — On roller coaster rides and during sex we sometimes have to close our eyes — the immediacy is that powerful. Hurtling towards the ground and the animal passion in the eye of the other as close as we can get — is (almost) too much. And yet that’s why we’re…

A Tale of A Mechanic’s Meditation — Obe had a mechanics shop on Old Hollow Road in Starksboro, Vermont. I was on my way home to Winooski, from a weekend visit to New York City, when my engine overheated on Route 116 and I’d pulled into the parking lot of the Stark Raving Cafe parking lot. On…

They’re Here To Help Protect The Children — On what began as a thunder-stormy and became beautifully sunny Friday morning I took a subway from my home in Harlem, followed by a bus, to the farther edges of Brooklyn, near the ocean and the Rockaways. Always grateful for an hour and a half of book reading time. I…

Visitation In A Cubicle — An excerpt from the forthcoming book—“Leaps Across The Partition” edited by Zĕna Kōan ©2023 Anomalous Duo Press — a collection of people’s experiences of the departed communicating with their loved ones from the other side. The author of this piece chooses to remain anonymous. It was one of those bathrooms…

A Threat To America’s Boys — The Situation China is planning to respond to the fact that the U.S. is setting up more military bases all around it. Earlier this month the U.S. struck a deal with the Philippines, its former colony, to expand its military presence to four additional bases—part of a years-long Pentagon build-up…

Visiting the ignorance of the fathers upon the sons (Stop!) — An Introduction — The Basics Foreskin is not a design flaw! Sixty+ percent of the world’s men remain intact. This fact alone should certainly stir some doubts about the claimed “benefits” of this surgical procedure. Finally — the preemptive removal of a healthy body part on every boy— one that…