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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.

Enola Gay pilot dies

Paul Tibbets just went
to hell, where a black mushroom
cloud is his tombstone.

November 1st, according to Mike Myers

That candy still sits
there.  What would Fat Bastard say?
“Get in my belly!”

Mindless bingeing

When I eat crazy
trans fat, hot wings, donuts, all
sucked into the void.

Mindful mouthful

When I eat healthy
it’s cottage cheese rye crispbread.
I’ll live forever.

Majesty

My husband’s pride is
African violets, purple
faces genuflect.

Bus stop – daylight savings time

7am could
be midnight. Kids stand on street
corners like hookers.

Trick or treat 6

Every year they say
they’re too old, but hit the streets
for that sugar fix.

Trick or treat 5

I answer the door.
Offer kids cooked broccoli
They demand candy.

Lost and found

Moving furniture,
the Bermuda Triangle
is under the couch.

Trick or treat 4

Only buy the good
candy because you have to
live with leftovers.