end of year clearance

i've seen fire and i've seen rain

little bit o' soul

rc cola and a moon pie

you can get anything you want

one of these day I might not come back down

say it ain't so joe

wherever i may roam

do you believe in magic

nowadays clancy can't even sing

son of mr. green jeans

i just wasn't made for these times

roll out the barrel

we're gonna bring you the power

must be taco tuesday

an evolutionary tail

Here's another little short story ditty for your consideration and amusement.
An Evolutionary Tail

quick silver daydreams

Carpe Diem.

Here's another little story for you to read.

Soldier Girl

all summer long

 

blue rondo a' la turk

 

wonderful radio london....whoopee!

 

laissez les bon temps rouler

 

walking down main street

 

drabble #3

 

you ain't seen nothing yet

 

drabble #2

 

drabble #1

 

quicksilver message

 

revolve in peace

 

let's go fly a kite

 I don't know what's up with me. I go 25 years with out writing any prose, and I've written about a dozen short stories since in the last six months.  Here's another one.

Winds Of Change

let me be stormy let me be calm

 

stomp them grapes

 

don't you notice how the wheel goes 'round?

a little science fiction ditty for you to read

I had a dream I was on a futuristic "steam-punk"-like B-29 Superfortress. I woke up and wrote a short story about it. I did some major revisions and then I revised that draft even more to make it fit right under the 1000 word level(it's called "flash fiction" apparently). I'm pretty happy with what I ended up with, though it has very little resemblance to the original dream/draft.

Time And A Bottle

running down a dream

 

saints don't bother with a tear stained eye

 

i went down to the crossroads

 

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 No time to read all 1500 stupid poems on my blog? Well, for a limited time, you can read the greatest 101 Tales From The Typer at this link (also available on the "Poetry Books" Tab.) Yes, is "101 Tales From The Typer -The Best of The Mess 2010-2020. Yours for free at this link. Act now, operators are standing by!

101 Tales From The Typer

will it go around in circles

 

where hippie meets hillbilly

gonna take a freight train

oh to live on sugar mountain

Click Here For Sound

i can see clearly now

it was twenty-two years ago today..

a blast from my typewriter past

Johnny Came Marching Home Again

Johnny Came Marching Home Again

OK. Here's the whole "novel" I wrote back in 2012. Took me 3 months to write in cursive back in 2012, but 5 months to type up in 2020. I'm pretty happy with it.  It's 44,000 words which "barely" qualifies it as a novel I think. Feel free to download and read. Link is also posted on the "Novel" tab above.

St. Genevieve can hold back the water

cause there's a million things to be

who you gonna call?

the drifter

Seven summers ago, when my son was 10 years old, his favorite thing to do in the world was to go swimming. Pretty much every day that summer, I took him swimming. I myself, would jump in and take a few laps, and get out after 5 minutes.  He'd stay in 2 or 3 hours a day. I spent all the extra time waiting on him writing a "novel". It filled 6 spiral notebooks in cursive. At the end of the summer I put it away in a box thinking "one day I'll find the time to type this up". Well, thank you COVID-19, I've finally found the time. I'm about 85% done typing it up. As I finished typing this chapter, I realized, with just a few additions, it could stand on it's on as a short story.  The rest of the book is posted elsewhere on my blog.


The Drifter

el toro es bueno

sweeping the clouds away