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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 equinox

Days grow longer like
smiles that stretch wider as one
greets a long lost friend.

Ides of March

‘Beware!’ Caesar was
told. Like teens in horror films
he didn’t listen.

In like a lion, out like a lamb

What’s that mean? That spring’s
a dominatrix, whipping
March ’til it submits?

Obama’s turban

Headgear gone wild I
tip my hat to idiots
who have flipped their lids.

Tina Fey’s new black

Reclaiming the word,
she grabs the bitch by the horns
and makes us all proud.

Negative campaigning

With all this trash talk
even the winner comes out
smelling like garbage.

Last lines

for jem who says, “it’s your last lines that get me everytime.

I’d like to think of
myself as the O. Henry
of the haiku form.

Bad choice for the Oscars

Could Cameron Diaz
maybe have done her hair? That
ponytail  so wrong.

Gary Busey on the red carpet

Anyone who makes
Ryan Seacrest sweat deserves
a special Oscar.

Leap year day

Secretive. Works for
the CIA. Won’t say where
it’s been for four years.