All poems and stories

  • Independence, an illustrated poem

    What makes us feel accomplished? What makes us feel that we are worth a damn? Society and the media seem to correlate a person’s value to the quality and quantity of their stuff. From experience I know this is not true. There are many idiots that earn big money and live the high life, and…

  • Your time is your time, a poem

    You and everyone you know will die. All the stuff you collect and surround yourself with will belong to someone else in the future or will be considered junk and tossed. This is a fact. We don’t think about this fact daily; sometimes, decades go by without considering this ultimate ending. It makes sense not…

  • Lost phone, a short short story

    Note: I had a hard time keeping this one straight. I think I got it right. Jon lost his phone. He is sure of that. He looked everywhere for it: in his car, yard, and house. He called it a few times from his landline, but the call went straight to voicemail. Like a fool,…