and this may shock you…but you think I haven’t noticed? I am more saddened than shocked. It hit me hard, of course, but it wasn’t quite like the blast of cold that slaps you when you first jump into the lake in January…its like being in the water as it slowly turns to ice…my skin […]
Category: On Writing
Criminal Law. 3:12 PM.
There are those who ask question after question, merely because they don’t understand a particular legal issue…I have been there. Sometimes, the black letter law just fails to take root. That’s not the case here. Time after time, class after class, case after case, his hand goes up. We have all seen them before. Everyone […]
Grrr
Go ahead. Play like you don’t care. Don’t return my calls until weeks later? Fine. Act like an ass because that bothers me? Sure. Just generally be aloof and pretend like you don’t give a damn? Cool. But don’t bitch and moan because you think you belong where you don’t. You were special in my […]
Hair Cuttery
Barbershop. Six black men, one black woman. Two barbers, and one half of the ownership present – the Van, but not the Frank. There is something I love about the barbershop…my grandfather was a barber, though I had only been to his shop once or twice, but something about the smell of Barbasol that always […]
Framed by Fire
Framed by fire the shadow man stands head bowed born of ash and flame “Its a good day to be indigenous.” […]
Hippity Hop
“Do you know anything about this ‘rap’ music?” The old man stopped me in the middle of a certain massive department-type retail outlet, which will remain nameless save for its bullseye oriented logo and quirky marketing campaigns. The question jerked me out of my discussion concerning the love Elton John gets on the block…lets just […]
Each Key
each key on this board, white expanse, crying out to my depression, too many hearts have fallen in my wake, now mine too likewise crushed by love’s loss. how many times have the doors closed behind me, how many warm wet dreams bled into my shirt as I let her cry? as she let it […]
What Sweet Caress
Teetering ever so delicately on the line between staying in a school where I detest both the work and the environs and sallying forth into a cold world of gnashing teeth determined to rend me to little bits…this is where I find myself now, on this day, preparing to battle my inner conflict. “No sun […]
She Passed
She passed and when her breath had gone we ate and drank to her life and dreamt of her smiling face and crying heart and thought again of good times shared when first she left us. She returned for but a breath and then when hence we caught her eye and realized she was in […]
A Poem For You
her smile is tears enough I want to believe the reach to clutch the light she hides her pain behind I cannot touch her smile was tears enough to drink in so we fed upon them and drunk on each drop shed we hungry men, sated and felt ourselves lucky then to be given an […]
One Night at the Dreams
Then, out of the mass of moving bodies, there she stood. I stopped, frozen for a second or two that felt like forever, then: “Hi, Anthony…I am in trouble, aren’t I?” “You damn straight.” The difference between my eSelf and my real person are so vast and great as to make any real description of […]
Its Not Love
Its not love my mind denies it whilst my thoughts lie caught in absentminded dreams of her smiles past its not, it can’t be each wish a dish full of a mishmash of desires unsatisfied and hunger unfulfilled the ache in my stomach is just the caffeine that keeps me up at this ungodly hour […]
Sittin’ & Waitin’
At the crossroads, me and Ol’ Scratch. Shit, here I sit, waiting for my future to meet me. Thing is I probably don’t even need the deal, but my insecurity has led me here, got me sellin’ my soul for fame and success. The gifts I’ve had, the talents I’ve been given, and the opportunities […]
[written 9-11-02]
I guess it’s almost required that I say something today. A year ago, this time, I was driving people home, fearing for my life, for my family’s life, and fearing for the life of my girlfriend (now my ex), all of whom I could not reach on my cell phone. I had written before about […]
Sitting in Class
Wondering what is gonna go on my lil’ “Omerta”…my professor is so funny, but it takes away from the subject, if only because I have such a deep interest in the topic. Computer law, the legal issues related to computers and the internet, is in my opinion, the future of freedom. We have bought and […]