by Fred Nicholson | Feb 13, 2019 | All Mixed Up, Stories
Before you read this or not, please be forewarned. What follows may not be a poem, but once it took off, I could not stop it. Not sure if throwing in line breaks turns words into a poem. There I go ‘wording off’ again. *****the Agreement We had one,...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 12, 2019 | All Mixed Up, Stories
falling forthe CARROT and the stick WORLD Carrots are used for many purposes. Some folks may cover their mouths, aghast.Others think about a glass of fresh squeezed juice.Me? I’m talking about the donkey carrot, the greyhound rabbit, and the human habit. What...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 9, 2019 | All Mixed Up, Stories
TRUST is not a continuum,though like all else,it appears to be. “OK, I just stepped out of character.” I have no idea where this is heading.Let’s follow and see if we break a leglike they say in showbiz OR wind uptapping [Delete], saying good night...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 6, 2019 | Fredisms, Love is...
Am I here? Dance yourself off the edge.Who, me?Yes. You! Get what you want.I want nothing!No thing is one step away. You mean jump?I mean let go words and spaces.How I’m gonna do that? Be Hear Now.I am here.Let go words and spaces....
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 4, 2019 | Stories, War Games
I SHOUT, “I’M COMING . . .” The sun is hotter today.The stink is worse. coagulatedblood n gutsflies(where there used to be eyes)bits n piecesbody partscollectedin zippered bags “You got 10 minutes to chow down!” Lunch timeC rations, a...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 2, 2019 | Fredisms, Love is...
When we cut spendingin halfon bullets bombs and BS* we will have enoughto fix the people’s teethfree. f183Bonus Points: Drafted while hearing Futaba Inoue& Jean-Pierre Rampal, Rampal Greatest Hits, Vol. 1Classical, 1975Ave Maria, Charles Gounod...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 1, 2019 | Fredisms, Love is...
Don’t Go! Go where?Away from here,now? I AM all ways HereNow. Hear Now! f182
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 26, 2019 | Love is the Answer, Stories
Let’s see what 8:44 PM backward gives us. 8:44 PM and back. Had steak and salad for dinner. Kaia had bits of steak in low sodium organic beef broth mixed with mushed pumpkin and her daily meds. Added 30mg of codeine* to her meal to help her chill from the...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 26, 2019 | Love is the Answer, Stories
Maybe I will call all this stuff, stuff. That’s what it is, right? Stuff! Break that stuff down, and get what you want. Is seeing believing OR does believing come firstOR does it even matter? Lets not forget the Way Home is not a destination,a voyage, an...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 25, 2019 | Fredisms
Some one saysYou’re so honest. I saySeeds must be plantedto get results. Honest seeds reap honesty.Honesty starts at home. f181
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 23, 2019 | Stories, War Games
no name, 6 ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, then ‘Many Rivers To Cross’ filled my head after Vietnam. Well, not directly after. Directly after, I was going to get a job in the newly established computer field. That’s where the money was...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 23, 2019 | Stories, War Games
no name, 5 I am liking this ‘no name’ continuation. It frees mind from ‘thinking in the box’. That takes more work than is necessary, ‘thinking in the box’. Think about it! See what I mean? ‘I follow my feet’ is what I...
