Friday, January 09, 2026

mmmmcmxxxvii

What Industry?

Down with the Greek gods! 
 And probably
the Roman ones, too!  Graffiti that foretells
is much more ephemeral than the sun.  Sol’s
bright sliver of daylight (on the road to Dam

ascus).  Toll free calls with voices conveying
poems on the other end.  I used to do that.
For Special Olympics.  And for Southwestern
Bell.  Sports and communications have been

my life.  Okay, have been a sliver of daylight
in my life.  Well, that’s taking it a word or two
too far.  Collecting the sheets of inked paper
from the conveyor belt, quickly putting the

several hundreds of unique pages together,
binding them all together, placing the bound
product into a box, finding the time some
where to lift the box onto the truck, hop into 

the truck, drive it out to the nearest warehouse, 
seek out and investigate local bookstores, locate 
an eager audience....

playing Father Doherty in Angels Fall in 1989