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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.

February 29

Like the extra hour
when we fall ahead, this one
day a trick in time.

Constant reader

see also Inconstant blogger

That you’ve found me and
read my life in seventeen
syllables floors me.

Inconstant blogger

see also Constant reader

Like a lover who
wanders I return here to
check in now and them

Headache

Accomplished nothing
’til I took Motrin a whip
that tamed this tiger

In mourning early morning

J9 can’t sleep since
her mother died stays up and
writes heartache in tears.

Live your dream

Today J begins
flying not yet a driver
the sky’s the limit

Contemplating midnight urban exploration

We drive to where his
girlfriend’s dad says the haunted
tunnel is. We freak.

Sympathy pain

He drank to excess
so why am I the one with
the splitting headacne?

WV Oscar night tradition

They walk the carpet.
We eat takeout Chinese and
scream for our favorites.

Oscars’ best dressed

Bjork’s swan an urban
red carpet legend. Today
beauty takes no risks.