A poetry, fiction, and spoken word podcast. Completely irregular. Web site: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/
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It is only a little after dinner,
but a womb-like darkness has laid down across the highway.
This being the winter solstice,
the sky is an endless blanket of blackness
as if the highway had slid down into the guts of the earth
instead of running the patch of Maine
between Portland and Kittery.
The only lights are cigarette red from the cars in front of me
and dashing white from the cars northbound.
We swim down the arteries in our compartments,
containerized and separated.
It has been years,
but Bono still sings through the speakers
about how he still hasn’t found what he is looking for.
None of us have, Bono,
I say out loud to no one
because I am alone on this journey.
Not one of us.
The darkness feels like it should be milkshake thick,
perhaps even obsidian amber, with our headlights trapped
and shining forever.
But instead, the miles slip by like time
as we each push the gas pedal harder
to get where we are already destined to be,
all the colors bleeding into one.
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24 Nov 2024
Closing the Windows
Poet and writer, [Name], explores the poignant moment when one realizes the last time windows will be closed for the year, marking the onset of a long, gray winter.
31 Mar 2024
Oh, Achilles, you were a sucker
Oh, Achilles, you were a sucker
you died and you were forgotten.
Perhaps not your name
but who you actually were -
the details that differentiated you
from the other brutes on the beach -
and who knows how much Homer just plain made up
after a glass or three,
and he wasn’t one to disappoint the crowd.
If they wanted a little more blood
or wanted you to be a little bigger and stronger
and not actually have had to fight your fear
well then so be it.
But that’s not you he’s singing about,
let’s be clear.
That’s Homer's Achilles,
and people are remembering that Achilles,
the one he made up to turn a little gold.
They're not remembering what you actually did,
not what you actually sacrificed -
not the beautiful children you could have held,
not the fields you would have tilled,
not the sunsets you would have pondered
leaning on your plow
in your old age
that you did not have.
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