C.R.G.
Always the protagonist, his characters enjoy life more than him now. They have the chance to grow, to be free, to live forever — like he wanted to.
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Through the MoMA
Looking down toward the street below from a window inside The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, New York.
August 19th, 2023
When I was a hundred
When I was a hundred, I was fearless.
Brandy Alexander
Pervis was irritated by the admonishment, and instead of the Brandy Alexander he had anticipated, out of sheer schoolboy spite, he made himself a straight bourbon.
Live Like You Were Dying
Looking back, the way he lived his life before he started suffering from Alzheimer's, was like a man who was trying to complete his bucket list while he was still able to.
1975
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The Trouble With Transoms
No one else around seemed to mind or notice that the girl was not standing on the floor, or sitting in a very high chair.
Merrily Along We Go
not seeing anything, but the things we wanted to see.
no, everything is not ok
His expression is evidence of his brain telling the rest of his body to divert all the stored chemical energy to the muscles in his face that make his lips pucker in the middle and curl up at the edges. Making him smile makes me smile, and it feels good, until one second later when it doesn’t.
Anxiety
If not for yourself
Live for those who love you
Anxiety runs high
They don’t need to see
It’s written on your face
Anoxia
I never wanted to be here, but now that I’m here, I don’t want to leave.
Floating away and thinking I’m happy, but I’M not.
AI
I walked across a memory, and fell into a forgotten place; it was a lapse in memory. I’ve hurt myself. As I climb to the edge of the cranial recall.
Blaspheme
life is strife and to survive it too long is the true “hell.”
I still wanna be able to help somebody
Exactly one year had passed since the first time he forgot who I was.
That event would change my life and start me on a path of discovery reconciling emotion, and grief and ultimately healing and fulfillment through my writing, prose, and poetry.