I wrote this during a poetry reading at the Ballard Library… Continue reading
Dear Thursday…
Dear Thursday,
Okay, Thursday. What’s the plan?
Love,
Kevin
(10 May 2018)
シェー・シェー・シェー・DA・DA・DA・Yeah・Yeah・Yeah・Ya・Ya・Ya
Fans of YMO, Yukihiro Takahashi, or Japanese rock in general may be aware that The Beatniks have a new album out (Exitentialist a Xie Xie), with a catchy new single, first heard live in concert last year:
Bookstore Poem #252. Deepest blue
At Third Place Books this afternoon. Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets caught my eye, resulting in this: Continue reading
Dear Wednesday…
Dear Wednesday,
I swear, it could be an old country song: ‘My Kitty Loves to Sleep (But Hates it When I Do)’…
Love,
Kevin
(9 May 2018)
‘I’m aiming for ninety-five’ (a poem)
Why am I thinking about this first thing in the morning?
Dear Tuesday…
Dear Tuesday,
Monday eventually rallied. How about you?
Love,
Kevin
(8 May 2018)
Bookstore Poem #247. Inner voices
A short while ago, I overheard an author saying that kids ‘don’t have those inner critical voices’, that they don’t compare their drawings to others and judge themselves. Not so, say I… Continue reading
Dear Monday…
Dear Monday,
You seem strangely tentative today.
Love,
Kevin
(7 May 2018)
Sunday morning, Century Salon (a poem)
Bonus round—another long poem from the typewriter (in edited form).
Ordinary Average Thoughts 