A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES …BY “THE BUNTLES” Three Die-Hard Beatle Fans found they had the knack for singing and playing early Beatles Songs. The raw stuff. The stuff you never hear on the radio anymore. Come join Patrick O’Leary, Greg Sumner and Mike Wilhelm for an evening of fab. We’re playing for fun [...]
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RADIO
08/27/2010
Hot summer nights in the thick close air on the front porch Dad listening to the Tiger Game after a full day on the railroad job his Tareyton glowing in the dark orange & off like a firefly flirting with Ernie Harwell as he ran down the play by play Sometimes he’d let me take [...]
The Beatles: The Brilliance of Both/And
06/16/2010
A meditation on the exceptional gift, commitment and comic distance of The Beatles.
BUYING UNDERWEAR FOR THE DEAD
05/14/2010
A mediation on the rituals of preparing a loved one for his passage to the other side.
TWO COUGHS
04/10/2010
The contrast between how parents hear a sick child and how single people do is explored.
NAMEBLIND
03/28/2010
I live in a world where names are disposable I have no choice in the matter I am nameblind It is as if I am surrounded by people with familiar faces & no names Like a huge convention & all the nametags are blank That place your brain reserves for names is a slippery black [...]
IN OR OUT IN OR OUT
03/16/2010
In Or Out In Or Out That’s What Doors Are All About Take The Cup Drink It Up You’re A Kid You’re Not A Pup Up Or Down Up Or Down There’s The Sky There’s The Ground Go And Stop Go And Stop There’s The Bottom There’s The Top Inside Cool Outside Storm Outside Cold [...]
SOMEBODY LOVES ME
03/15/2010
A little girl dreams a life free of her annoying siblings.
SO MUCH DEPENDS
03/09/2010
upon the round black momma on the cell-phone pushing her red-capped toddler in the stroller on a sunny morning beside the strip club