Pain

...is a sort of human pinball game my brother downloaded for the Playstation 3. It involves a choice of three characters (a generic daredevil, a Santa, and a scantily clad Santa's helper) using a giant slingshot to launch themselves into a cityscape fraught with objects, vehicles, and explosives to collide with, fall from, and get creamed by. Good fun.

Snow Time Like the Present

I was certain I'd see snow on the ground yesterday morning. I was only off by a day. This is the pleasant type of snow that looks like frosting on a Mini-Wheat, and most features of the land are still visible. Time to put on 'Tis The Season For Los Straitjackets.

ken*again Again

"Actors"—a poem I'd shopped in various forms for four year—has been accepted along with two recent poems, "Back on Robin Lane" and "A Poet Dreams," for ken*again's Winter 2007/2008 issue. My thanks again to editor John Delin.