dennis scharnberg

elementary my dear

And, in essence, the issue came to this: “Was Gerald mentally ill, or was he just a very unpleasant person indeed?”

Park V. Kessler, Nearly Happy.

equality of poverty

Small bird flying low missed by inches

Could feel its breeze

Went for a doze in shade.

Ann Sensabaugh, The Faulty Haiku.

postal service devotee

Sculpture at the “heroic scale” is inevitably ludicrous. Let’s stop pretending.

Nelson Poindexter, Corpuscular Aesthetics.

old bill jones

“You cannot talk about everything at once. We are condemned to be at least somewhat analytical.”

Will Bestwyck, Letters from Mr. Palindrome.

cruising the alleys

“Here are a few more words to consider abandoning: amid, daunting, remiss, very, literally. Especially that last one, John.”

Will Bestwyck, Letters from Mr. Palindrome.

workshop on songwriting

“I don’t know what those things are,” gushed Lynda, “but they certainly are well-designed.”

Heywood Wakefield, The Humdrum Demon.

here to help

If a word or phrase can be isolated as a manifestation of the internet era, I simply ignore it. And I never use it.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

driving my truck

Todd is being “welcomed” by Windows, and he has an unfortunate tendency to get a bit misty at such moments.

Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

pretty stop sign

Job: an activity that can be audited by a manager.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

circle of radiance

Can you find anything in your surroundings at this moment that is neither an image nor the result of an image? If so, you are probably not in a city.

Tristram Speaker, A Book of Postulates.