Author Archives: Victor

Warning: SHIT abounds TOO DISTURBED Let me tell you, I can’t find shit. Ok, I’ve found shit, I remember the joke what’s warm and brown and crawls up your leg~ homesick shit. Should have told that to the furious nurse when I was lying in mine, abjection like Kristeva writes, Cast Off! I may be.

My lungs I was a child during the polio epidemic in the 50s I was only born in 1955 so the worst of the scare passed me by. There was a fella in town but wasn’t so lucky and had irrepairable lung issues and wanted to keep breathing understandably. So he spent most of his

TIME IN LIFE first cut-up of my own books* Media can’t keep up with all the killing car doors swing open on Portage Avenue I do not find this reassuring though there are days filled with ants and rot the wild geese are gone. Inclined to the sky the Cockshut wheel reels in the blue

Yesterday I met two wonderful mental health professionals. The first was a female psychiatrist, my first woman psych and I believe there is more to know ab0ut being, Alive.She was very clear, “I don’t do psychotherapy depending what you mean. . I described the difference between two of my psychs in Winnipeg and was fine

December 24, 2021 The first 12 books that I remembered in the order I remembered them, revised. The first 12 books that I remembered in the order I remembered them, revised. The Bible – though I believe and say shit like “I’m such an atheist, I’m not an atheist,” and “God is dead, but sometimes

I was debating whether to use all caps; ghost-towns being too small, unworthy of ALL CAPS. A New Yorker reviewer used a fine bit of word play with allusions to place before it was empty. This phrase “ghost-town in waiting”  seems aptly suited to some-one like me,  my brain toying with undiagnosed  early stages of dementia.