by Fred Nicholson | Apr 27, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
1) the PrelubeSaturday night came and we’d cram into the living room.Ma had the prime spot,centered on the opened Castro Convertible.Us 6 kids found places around the bed. It was TV night.We had an RCA Victor Console TV. This was in the late 50’s.Our...
by Fred Nicholson | Apr 27, 2020 | All Mixed Up, COVID, Fred Nicholson, Stories
One more inhale could do it,end my life in this body,because of Covid-19.This is a challenging time,when my very next inhalecould be end of the line. This has always been the case,but now when my kid coughs,this truth is right in my face. Death is all ways at the...
by Fred Nicholson | Apr 27, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Love is the Answer, Stories
They ask something of us. Who are They?Love and Light, so bright at night,in living dreams. Oh, what a sight,this love and light. The morning mannaand in all our meals, the living we loveand those we don’t, our animal friendsand those we fear, The ones that...
by Fred Nicholson | Apr 27, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Stories
We North Americans . . .are at our wits’ end. This is the first time our borders,the Atlantic and Pacific,Mexico and Canada,are not a defenseagainst invasion, in a very long time. Our aggression across the planetOur leaders wanting to own it allOur weapons and...
by Fred Nicholson | Apr 9, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
Walking on air. I stay in Yoga/Meditation centers.At Wat Suan Mok, Thailand,the mosquitoes stick uswith sharp daggers. No moving, flinching, suffering.Just breathe and observe.The bite heat spreads,then soon dissolves. After some months of meditating thereand at a few...
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 26, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Phantom Pain or not? Prelude 1.I was recovering from a headshot deliveredby one of two taxi passengers,who held me up. Prelude 2.3 AM. Am heading home. Brooklyn.She steps from between parked cars.Says, “I am going to Brooklyn”.”OK”. He slides...
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 26, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Black and White, Fred Nicholson, Stories, War Games
the Feared questionis upon us.What is most important,profit or people? When our government steps into save its citizenry from death, shareholder corporate profitsmay suffer consequential loss.Do we support citizens or profit? With COVID-19 living in our homes these...
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 26, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Think about how far we have come. Body parts are fashionably clothedSexual tools are used for pleasureMost products are manufactured. Eating bananas in Nome, AlaskaGetting skeletal bone replacedBeing here now escapes us. We converse with more than an UGGWe rape and...
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 26, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
the 3 Short Stories, I cannot tell a lie.the Emperor’s brand new clothes.the Pied Piper of Fear. coming soon. SOON 1I cannot tell a lie.A lie? I never lie. I feed your fantasiesof being great again. I make it up, so truthis a grey matter word, tumbled and jumbledto...
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 26, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
Whisperedconversationswith spirit othersfill the hunger void. Come,join withspirit otherforest beings. foxbearhootersgrowlers, ivyfungilichenmosses, oakaldercherryspruce, bare feetrooted deepfinger branchesstretching skyward, skinspecked,burrowed,life feeding....
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 21, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
Whisperedconversationswith spirit othersfill the hunger void. Come,join withspirit otherforest beings. foxbearhootersgrowlers, ivyfungilichenmosses, oakaldercherryspruce, bare feetrooted deepfinger branchesstretching skyward, skinspecked,burrowed,life feeding....
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 14, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Love is the Answer, Stories
the Story.the Story needs a frame. more than a momentmore than an instant the Stories keep us,poking around here as living marionetteswith separate minds coming and goingepoch to epoch. Look in the mirror.Do I see me? Yes? There is the oldest story,since humanity...
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 13, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
LONGING all the Mastersand Mistresseswantwhat they want. all those visiblyserving up abovewantwhat they want. Let us go offon a tangent. now Hearthe truthboxed upany wayyou see. Longing fora tomorrow,not here now,is the big fat lie....
by Fred Nicholson | Mar 12, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
‘be brave’ Someone said ‘be brave’,and not just in battle,when taking away life. Someone said ‘be brave’when you stumble and fall,get up now, and again. I fell when my canine friendKaia took her leave 13 years,7 months and 21 days...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 25, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
What’s my story? To tell a life storywill take a life time.Then, no more story. The famous ones that diehave stories told about them.Let’s look at the Son of God story. Many of us tell his story.Are our stories all the same?You know the answer to that. I...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 18, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
a Shameful Apology California has just apologizedfor imprisoning the Japanese. Descendants of the prisonersspeak their Mother tongue,know their cultural history,and visit their homeland. Where is the white American apologyto descendants of African slaves? When a...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 18, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
TinkleTinkle Corn FlakeSprinkle*Crows,a murder, peck atthe crime scene*Nectar time babyCum and share it*take the load offto observe mind go loop de loop*Pebblesof love createripplesof life* f
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 16, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
a View of the Opposite Sex*. Funny how we guys are.At the sight of raw meatcovered with bits of fabricor not, we may go crazy. We do what it takesto possess that raw meat.We lie beg cheat steal kill,and will pay huge sums for it. This raw meat needn’t be...
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 13, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Roulette 6chambersloaded 5blankshells 4spentrounds 3A.M. 2wetpalms 1gunshot heardby theneighbor. f
by Fred Nicholson | Feb 13, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Bird Watchin’ One lazy summer dayI’m floating on the updraftaround timefor the barge to show up. Down left rests Jonathan Gullworn thin from flightsto far away placeswith strange sounding names. Closing from the rightrace three big fishmouths open wide for...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 28, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
Tales, Old and New.Scientists sayhumans migratedfrom Africa.Some men saywe will decideour own origin.”Our God created Adam,then woman from his rib.Woman screwed us all, by eating the fruit,which these daysmost of us enjoy. Today 7500 varietiesof forbidden fruit...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 21, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories, War Games
Color Full Words Martin Luther King and Robert E. Leecelebrate the same national day,in more than one united state. When the first Europeans arrived,freedom of where I live endedfor those of us, already here. Being in tune with living life was burned shot starvedand...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 21, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
Choice Democrats, Republicans and John Roberts.[From the Wall Street Journal]Chief Justice Roberts then administered an oath to senators, who will act as the jury. “Do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John...
by Fred Nicholson | Jan 21, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
the Black night. Black stiff man on the floor.Black child burns in the night.Black mother fetches doctor. Doctor drunk with love for mother.Mother burns in the night.Doctors diagnosis: Ebola Doctor runs out of house.House burns in the night.Doctor returns to his...
