Creative Strategies for a Godless Reality
Patrick O'LearyDark Comedy, SF, Poetry, frank discussions about withdrawing from Religion, songwriting, and the ad biz. Expect surprises.
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BUYING UNDERWEAR FOR THE DEAD
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BUYING UNDERWEAR FOR THE DEAD
Prepping their father’s body for the passage
his daughters gathered his
Necessities
Glasses
Dentures
but not his underwear
–Having spent his last years in diapers...
The Twelve Steps of Disenchantment
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- Ask “Am I enchanted?”
Somewhere after Santa Claus we all realize that our parents are liars.
And after we get over that we realize: if they can lie about that then
what else can they lie about? We...
Sir, all your parts are out of warranty & that coupon is from the Sixties
When I turned 71 I woke late (Hell
Yeah) had great coffee & a bagel,
a bookstore (rare) as empty as a bell.
Two white girls read back to back agiggle
living bookends united in the aisle.
Infused joints to launch my new year over
& jet...
I don’t want you to describe the sky
The last sunset on earth
I don’t want you to describe the sky.
I want you to tell me
were you in love when you saw it?
Were you aching to recall a lost dream?
Was memory playing its game with you?
Were his eyes brown or blue?
For all...
Apples
I worked in retail at an Apple store for four years. Here’s a poem about retail from my new Fairwood Collection of poems, Obviously I love you but if I were a bird. books2read.com/u/bz9PQE
Apples
The customers who reek of pee & marijuana...
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SF novelist, poet. Detroiter. I marched with MLK and Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties. I write science fiction & even I can’t believe this future. I couldn’t imagine this much unnecessary suffering.
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