Words from Inside My Head

thoughts coming from inside my head

sarcasm

  • Long Distance

    After three days I became worried, worried that my phone was not out of order, that I’d left it plugged in. I worried that something tragic thing hadn’t happened to  a member of your family, that you weren’t lying dead next to your phone I worried that your memory was fine, that you weren’t lost Read more

  • Won’t You Be My Friend and Neighbor in Our Friendly Little Town?

    (just something written for social media posts, specific for our progressive but sometimes divided little town) If you intend to be my friend or neighbor you must sign a loyalty oath to agree to belong, though if you find in reading it that you do not concur, I have to say, you cannot stay, you’ll Read more

  • I May Have Become a Conspiracy Theorist

    …since coming to realize, nearly fifty years after the event that there had been an event;  the Greensboro Massacre,  which happened in November of 1979, almost exactly three years before the date I myself was sexually assaulted, something which also happened in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1982. I’m embarrassed to admit that, at that time, Read more

  • Just A Poem About My Mother’s Advice To Me On Marriage

    There’s poetry inside your head if only you could write it downbefore it disappears And here I am, doing that, thoughI know that when I’m dead and gonesomeone will throw it all away, like uncle did, with grandma’s diaries because he hadn’tliked what he had read, thoughts she’d had but hadn’t kept inside her head, things he Read more