Evolution If we took every advertisementthat we saw under advisement,envisioning ourselves in carsfilled with TVs and guitars,food choppers and Barbie dolls—everything we saw in malls—we might buy it all and after,fill every house to every rafter.Blenders, stereos and blouseswould pile up in our many houses.Consumerism would be the keyto how happy we would be.Lethargic children
FACING THE INEVITABLE . . . Alone By Judy Dykstra-Brown Tilting at windmills or slaying dragons is too retro for my taste. I’d rather just have a man who tickles my funny bone, or at the very least one who tickles my fancy. At my age, I am between vulnerable stages. I don’t need
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The Time To Be Good By Judy Dykstra-Brown “The” is the most frequently used word in the English language and each of the other words in my title is the most common word in the English language for its part of speech. This is no surprise for the word “the.” “The” creates specificity. It
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Jump By Judy Dykstra-Brown Once the grass had grown waist-high, some summer nights, my dad and I accompanied by the shake and rattle of his old truck, would go watch cattle. In the twilight, barely light– but not yet turning into night, he’d drive the pickup over bumps of gravel, rocks, and grassy clumps,
The Ways I Do Not Love You I do not want to count the ways I do not love you. To do so casts me too solidly in your image without your excuses for doing what you did: that you were crazy-jealous, crazy-in love, crazy-in rejection, crazy period. I had always wanted to be
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My Karma Ran Over My Dogma! By Judy Dykstra-Brown The small disk that had been pinned to my visor pinged off the steering wheel and landed on my lap as we jolted over the rutted dirt road. I picked it off my leg before it was jostled off onto the gray carpet covered with
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Skewed Liberty Everything is tilted. Slightly unaligned.The Constitution set askew. Liberty maligned.Some of the well-heeled citizens think that this is fine.They cannot see that everything is slightly out of line.All the pretty Philistines queue up at their teeswhile their flunky lawyers determine what to seize.Contracts with the Russians. Schemes to sell off national land.Cronies
The Time To Be Good By Judy Dykstra-Brown “The” is the most frequently used word in the English language and each of the other words in my title is the most common word in the English language for its part of speech. This is no surprise for the word “the. “The” creates specificity. It
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Outsmarting My Smart TV By Judy Dykstra-Brown My TV is smarter than I am, springing to life on a whim.When my Jack-of-all-trades comes to work here, I think she is flirting with him.She flicks on and then off in a second, just like she has given a wink,or perhaps registers disapproval by shutting us
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Reclaimed Treasures By Judy Dykstra-Brown My grandmother used to come home from her wanderings with her pockets full of little treasures she had found along the way. Cracker Jack prizes, stray rubber jacks balls, lost skate keys, jar lids, rubber heels from boots. These findings were carefully sealed away in old canning jars—preserved as
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