Acceptance is the Cure I just want someone to accept me for who I am- “But you don’t even accept yourself for who you are!” I accept myself for being someone who can’t accept who they are. So I guess I’m looking for an exception, someone who accepts me for being someone who accepts themselves […]
cockpit of despair
By Brandon Adamson
Flight From The Senses by Brandon Adamson Putting on the invisible disguise in an effort to evade untimely demise it’s off to navigate the maze of the skies without a wingman, minus a stewardess, and the crash lessons of the last as the only guide, such is the flight experience on the airline of the […]
Time Machine Daydream
By Brandon Adamson
Dawn Batson dredged up this photo of me at Harlowe’s from when she came to visit in December of 2006.When I see it, all I can think is “such innocent times.” Dreary to see a photo like this really. I feel like I need to time travel back there to my diet depsi drinking, cream […]
the coin of the realm
By Brandon Adamson
“That’ll be 8.02” (I hand the girl at the counter a $10 bill and she starts to count out 1.98 in change) “You’re not really going to give me 98 cents change are you?” Normally I pay for everything with my debit card, but at certain places I only pay cash because I don’t necessarily […]
The Virtues of Being a Number
By Brandon Adamson
People just don’t seem to understand the name Brandon. By that I mean they literally never can get it right when they hear it. Anytime I go anywhere or do anything where some stranger feels the need to ask me my name and I say “Brandon”….they always come back and mistake it for some other […]
Chalk it up to GFE
By Brandon Adamson
So one day while I was looking at condos online, I ended up stumbling onto a mini-subculture of internet perviness I had previously been completely unaware of. I had been contemplating buying a place at the Mirada Garden condominiums, built in 1962 and converted from apartments in 2008. I put the address of the complex […]
no luggage, merely a carry on
By Brandon Adamson
“Excuse me sir, will you be checking any luggage?” “No, just a carry on…I don’t have any real baggage, only a chip on my shoulder that I take everywhere I go” “Oh I’m sorry sir, we can’t let you through security with that…it makes you seem too creepy to the other passengers and it will […]
a poem for the ages
By Brandon Adamson
Out of Me oh, what will it takes not to make the leap from patience to a patient. when one can’t catch a break can’t buy a bucket, my luck at the slots of a lot in life is worse than the licentious howlers that suck it -Brandon Adamson
space mountain of fountain drinks
By Brandon Adamson
QT is totally the Disneyland of convenience stores. Seriously, it makes Circle K and 7-Eleven look like one of those ghetto “mall carnivals.”