Can Any Song Get Us Through Dark Days? Even the Stupid Ones?
A song can pull someone out of even the deepest and darkest of places, but has every song saved somebody? Even the stupid ones? With billions of people on Earth and billions more songs, you’d think it would stand to reason that there is at least one recovering alcoholic out there saying, “the ‘Numa Numa’ song saved…
Best Buy Poem
I want to walk into a Best Buy and be seated at a table with a white cloth. I want my date to pull out my seat. I want to ask, “What’s good here?” I want to be served a 4k TV. * * * I want the menu to be a tablet that I…
Could You Help Me Get These Garbanzo Beans Off Of My Hands?
Hello, my name is Marty Turner. You might know me from not knowing me unless we’ve met. Whatever our history together isn’t, I have a problem and I hope you have the solution. See, I had a huge family reunion on my calendar for a couple of months and as any Turner, or Turner adjacent…
My Time On A Recreational Swim Team
At first, things were great. I was welcomed to the team with open arms! The boys and I would swim, swim, swim – not unlike our brethren working on the railroad – all the livelong day! We’d laugh, we’d cheer each other on, we’d slap each other on the ass. A couple of the guys…
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