Erik the Melancholy

She was still muttering, rummaging through the remainders of her last hallucination when I hollered "BINGO!" to the crowd of 25 or so, and she stopped to admonish me for being so brash. "Some people here take this game very seriously you know" she whispered, chuckling as she looked nervously about the room. "Whoops, my mistake" I told the number caller while I flushed to the bone. I'd made the mistake intentionally, but there was no reason not to add some dramatic color to my ruse. "You're right mom" I admitted; "Let's let the crazy people win. It'll make them feel better." She laughed and looked me square in the eye. "BINGO" she shouted, and then leaned toward me to whisper "yes let's". With a wink and a smile she collected her prize and settled in for a night of heavy competition, aware that her skeleton had been sprung from it's heavily guarded closet at last. I despise bingo. I loved my mother. It was a fair trade. The art of compromise is a fallacy. It's a science.

Red Hawk

A bit of random, personal verse.

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The Frightful Competition

Giving up the deadly drama of the new, for the convenient comfort of the old.

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Glass Valley

As Frank Zappa might have said, “A real nice place to raise your kids up…”

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Marie

Once upon a time I wrote and produced music. Oh, I wasn’t all that good at it, but it paid pretty well over a number of years. This particular piece was the first, a test of sorts, a gift to my ex wife. It was our wedding processional, written note by note, humming each to a copyist because I couldn’t play any instrument save the pencil on desktop combination. It’s from a copy of a copy of a copy and better than 25 years old now so the quality is suspect, but I’m proud of it nevertheless; if only because in my wildest dreams I’d never thought myself talented enough to make music. I thank Bruce Bednarchuk, Gary Schulte, John Taddiken and Steve somethingorother, a brilliant horn player whose surname I can’t recall because I’m old and stupified, for providing the actual playing of the notes as a favor to me.

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The Great Book of Betty

The John and Martha Killerwhale Story

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Ardoyne

This is a piece from one of the many novels I’ve never finished. It’s working title is The Ardoyne American. I’ve considered subtitling it “the making of a terrorist” but as I’ve not gotten past what one writer tells me is nothing more than backstory, I figure it doesn’t really deserve a subtitle. The script takes place quite near the beginning of the book, a flashback driven by a man’s son who reminds him of the fragility in being a child. It is the earliest chronicled part of his life, and a foundation for what follows. It is about 10 mn long and a fairly large file to download.

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