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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.

Urban outfitted

Going to New York
City. I’ve bought black clothing,
black low-heeled shoes.

Before Lost season 4 begins

Speed-viewing seasons
one through three’s like life in the
hatch. Push the button.

Forced

Disappointment like
a kidney punch makes it hard
to smile through the pain.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

He had a dream but
his murder was our nightmare.
It’s time to wake up.

Theatre of the mind

Never read the play
before you see it performed.
There’s too much drama.

Toil and trouble

Cleaning is like con-
fession. You’re surprised by dirt
under the surface.

Face waxing

In a misguided
effort I peeled off half my
face and left the hair.

Lieutenant of Inishmore

Bloody mess of a
play that has you laughing at
clots of gore and death.

Meaning lessons: 3 views of two words overheard

“Meaning glistens.” Or
“meaning listens.” Or perhaps
it’s “meaning lessens.”

Tree falls in the forest analogy

I stop posting in
the blogosphere.  No one reads
me. Do I exist?