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Confounding expectations since 1963

Tag: October 2021

I don’t know how I got here (a poem)

2021/11/01 Kevin J. O'Conner

Partly based on a recurring dream. I’m having a dream, you see As usual, I got here in the middleso I don’t understand the plotline I don’t have my passportso I’m not sure how I’ll get back Being here doesn’t make any sense So I’m telling you all thisin hopes you might have an answerif [...]

Posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, WritingTagged October 2021, poem, poetry

Dear Sunday…

2021/10/31 Kevin J. O'Conner

Dear Sunday, Twenty-six minutes so far. I might actually make it through the whole movie. Love, Kevin (31 October 2021)

Posted in General/Miscellany, Life, Musings, WritingTagged Dear Sunday, love notes to the days of the week, October 2021, Year 9

Dear Saturday…

2021/10/30 Kevin J. O'Conner

Dear Saturday, Making crockpot chicken and watching The World’s End. Love, Kevin (30 October 2021)

Posted in Life, Musings, WritingTagged Dear Saturday, letters to the days of the week, October 2021, Year 9

Dear Friday…

2021/10/29 Kevin J. O'Conner

Dear Friday, All quiet so far. Love, Kevin (29 October 2021)

Posted in Musings, WritingTagged Dear Friday, letters to the days of the week, October 2021, Year 9

Dear Thursday…

2021/10/28 Kevin J. O'Conner

Dear Thursday, Alrighty, then! All Pfizered up. Love,Kevin (28 October 2021)

Posted in Life, Musings, WritingTagged Dear Thursday, love notes to the days of the week, October 2021, Year 9

死神 (Shinigami) (a poem)

2021/10/27 Kevin J. O'Conner

Based on a prompt: ‘write your worst fear as if it were a living monster’. This doesn’t quite do the job—but some things are hard to translate. My monster is a sneaky bastard—invisible, silent… waiting. Always. He pretends to disappear,but really he is a masterof camouflage. Always waiting. He feeds on the ticksof the silent [...]

Posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, WritingTagged #NWWC, October 2021, poem, poetry

Dear Wednesday…

2021/10/27 Kevin J. O'Conner

Dear Wednesday, First coffee, now drowsy. Will I never learn? Love, Kevin (27 October 2021)

Posted in Musings, WritingTagged Dear Wednesday, letters to the day of the week, October 2021, Year 9

Laminate: the noun as an object/the verb as a fetish (a poem)

2021/10/262021/10/26 Kevin J. O'Conner

Written in part while watching a documentary about Joseph Beuys. The trip has so many legsit can probably stand on its own—meaning I don’t have to leave the house At six and a half hoursI could put the car in gearand drive there myself But the subjectis not cooperatingwith the rest of the sentence It [...]

Posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, WritingTagged October 2021, poem, poetry

Dear Tuesday…

2021/10/26 Kevin J. O'Conner

Dear Tuesday, I don’t plan to get much done today, if that’s all right with you. Love,Kevin (26 October 2021)

Posted in Musings, WritingTagged Dear Tuesday, letters to the days of the week, October 2021, Year 9

Dear Monday…

2021/10/25 Kevin J. O'Conner

Dear Monday, So why do I have to wake up early whenever I set the alarm clock? Love, Kevin (25 October 2021)

Posted in Life, Musings, WritingTagged Dear Monday, love notes to the days of the week, October 2021, Year 9

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