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About gimble

I've never understood why solitary confinement is considered a punishment. My favorite time of year is when vacation forces me to drive long hours on the overnight stretch, all other companions in the car asleep, my thoughts and the dark stretch of white-striped road all to myself. Having said that, I can happily keep busy inside my head, yet am distracted by so much of the larger world that I waste time putting those thoughts generated by those distractions down on cyber-paper. Maybe I want to see if anyone else feels likewise. Though not as bright, sharp or hard as a diamond, I am many faceted - esoteric in my literature, tending toward magic realism - pop-culture vulturish in my take on media - sentimental enough to cry at dog food commercials - and a lover of kitsch, like diners and other holes in the wall of life.

Spring break

Florida is the
cheese at the end of the maze
known as air travel.

Natural born plant killers

No one waters them.
Tiny cells plead, but TV
seems more important.

You take after your mother

My weirdness is as
apparent in my kids as
streaks in a fake tan.

If gum were chocolate

Like cows with their cud
we would chew constantly, and
then we’d all swallow.

If chocolate were gum

One piece would last for
hours and have few calories.
(I’m working on it.)

500 haikus

From a Revealing
start to this auspicious point –
my life in short form.

Inexplicable sadness

In wordless despair
M dissolves in tears clutching
me like a life vest.

Laptop

An adult blankie.
To take one from its owner
will make grown men cry.

Ironing as a metaphor

Smoothing over the
wrinkles in life takes more cold
cash than hot metal.

April Fool’s Day

not sure what’s so fun
about a day when we’re all
afraid we’ll get punk’d