Jim chose to write about, “Heartbreak Hotel,” which is full of, well, heartbreak. When I went to lyrics.com and put hotel in the search box, it came back with 6,263 songs with lyrics containing hotel. That doesn’t even include motel. Why is it that motels/hotels are so often sung about as these dwelling places of…
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#MM — Photo Challenge — Insomnia
– image by Julien Tabet Like a wraith, in the night Insomnia descends Smell the stench of my blight Foul visit never ends Insomnia descends Counted sheep attack me Foul visit never ends Dread is at an acme. Counted sheep attack me As wooly-bodied snakes Dread is at an acme. My frightened sleep escapes As…
Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, August 7th 2019, daisies
A million yellow- cushioned buttons, white-framed polka-dotted carpet. * yellow featureless faces, wearing white bonnets look up in the field * A sea of white with yellow polka-dots — a bird’s eye view. * Warm summer winds — music that makes daisies hula, dreaming Hawaii. * Yellow, white, green a perfect summer outfit sunny field…
Hungry (mature audiences only)
image link WARNING: THIS MAY BE TRIGGERING FOR THOSE WITH PTSD Father Jones had been sent by the church to the far reaches of Alaska to convert the Alaskan population to Christianity. You see, Father Jones was a weak man. He’d been bounced from parish to parish for years, as his weakness of “infatuations” with…
#MM — Tale Weaver, FOWC, and WOTD — Forklift Files
In my old work days as a juvenile probation officer, it was small victories that kept me and my co-workers going. The strengths-based model we worked from had us always assessing where the strengths in the “biopsychosocial environment” were, while at the same time acknowledging where the barriers were. Our jobs were to enhance the…
#MM — Saturday Mix – Unique Personality, 27 July 2019 — Vert and Brid
image link Vert was a 1965 Imperial Sedan Green Hornet. He’d sat on the lot of Sal’s Sweet Deals for a good two years. Day after day, week after week, month after month, Vert experienced the tacit rejection of the stream of customers that spilled through Sal’s lot and chose others but not him. Vert…
#MM Music Challenges — Wild Wild Life and Quentin Tarantino’s, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”
Jim Adams is the ever-patient host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on [The Talking Heads song, “Wild Wild Life”] and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression (including but not limited to short stories, a piece of flash fiction, poems, lyrics, artwork, photography, (etc.)…
Tao-Talk 