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A Night in the ER

Last night I was in the ER until 4 am with breathing troubles. It wasn't very severe, but it didn't seem to get better as it usuall does and my wife was worried so we went in. I was given Albuterol, which didn't help and a chest X ray and EKG, both of which were normal. I kind of wish they'd found something because then the problem could be solved, or at least explored, but I'm glad they didn't find any problems with my heart. The breathing troubles come and go and it may be what's called "Exercise Induced Asthma", since the symptoms worsen with physical exertion. I'm meeting with my GP on Wednesday, and she will perhaps run more tests. I intend to write more in depth about this over the next day or two and publish it on my hubpage . The staff, from the admins to the nurses to the doctor, were all terrific and it was a very good experience. I'm not one to go to the doctor so it was kind of interesting for me to see a hospital that wasn...

wizzley

I recently started writing for Wizzley, so now you can follow my writing here on blogspot, on hubpages and on wizzley . My Wizzley page is going to be exclusively art analysis, namely film, poetry and fiction. I published my first article yesterday, which was an analysis of Elizabeth Bishop's Poem Filling Station . It received 42 hits in the first 12 hours (which I consider rather impressive do to the niche like subject matter and my new author status) and was actually given an Editor's Choice Award within the first thirty minutes. My skeptical nature had me believing that, perhaps, this award was given out to all new Wizzley authors to sorta bait them into staying, but, after further research, I discovered this is a legitimate award and my article was moved to the front page and featured. Further research and I discovered that I was only the third author on Wizzley to have their first article awarded the Editor's Choice Award. It's an author and my initial experi...

The Girl in the Yellow Dress

I see her over there across the grass between me a creek and a bear. The woman—beautiful, blonde, bloody—in a yellow dress, is being mauled by the bear. She is trapped, the bear ripping scarlet rivulets of pink flesh from her otherwise fleckless epidermis, under the bear, between the creek and me. It has terrible, merciless claws and vicious teeth. She sees me seeing her and she screams. Weaponless and impotent, and fearful to swim, I leave her there with the bear as her yellow dress turns to rust. I originally published this here

The Lies We Know

my latest poem. Brief, yet packed with meaning. The Lies We Know Knowing lies told concurrent with the televisions’ three-piece suited viceroy. He with his news paper and faint red lipstick on his collar. She smelling of foreign cologne the original

Parasite

With roars, crackles and pops it dances unevenly casting an orange glow tinged with blue. Consuming it's prey in a parasitical suicidal rage before settling into coals dying and leaving behind only ash. this was originally published on  my hub , back in November.

The Squirrel, Ever Vigilant, Always Working

View this on my hubpage if you'd like. I prefer the format here, but, feel free to check out both and decide for yourself :-) The Squirrel, Ever Vigilant, Always Working Up down across he runs Pauses peeks Ever vigilant of hawks Eagles owls Who desire his flesh Up down across he Scurries scrounges For nuts, fruits the grand prize: A discarded apple core A half-eaten sandwich he fills his cheeks And runs Up down across to his home In the tree tops Secure and panting Stowing For like the hawk Winter Is descending.

Happy Birthday, Kurt Cobain

I usually post here in the morning but I wanted to finish up something I was working on in honor of Kurt Cobain's 45th brithday. Here it is: the Kurt Cobain Story  . I hope you enjoy it!