Joe Gensle's Blog – May 2010 Archive (7)

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A Memorial (Day) to Come

In his wheelchair, Davy sat in the darkened 6-man bay, his mind swirling in reflection from the 6th floor of Letterman Army Medical Center at the Presidio, staring over the runways at Crissy Army Airfield and beyond at the fog-lighted Golden Gate with its stream of headlights sustaining white blur ropes in both directions of traffic.



Davy awoke from his drug-induced coma sixty-two days after his arrival, awoke groggily to find a Purple Heart pinned to his pillow atop a bed…

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Added by Joe Gensle on May 30, 2010 at 1:30am — No Comments

Forecast for Peacekeeping

This morning's full moon posed itself between a lone palm on the left, and a stand of palms to the right, all at minimum heights of 4 stories. In its topless frame of palms and terra firma, there was an added, resounding magnitude in its call for me to gaze, one held so captive that I realized it appeared to me as the Eucharist, a Catholic's embodiment of Christ transubstantiated from a thin wafer of bread.



As the pre-dawn light intensified, the moon slipped away in the natural… Continue

Added by Joe Gensle on May 28, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Should It Really Be Called a "Date?"

I read a blog titled "It's Only a Date," and thought, 'Shouldn't it be called an audition?' because audition just seems better fit, more accurate to me.



So you have an audition or several, all goes well leading to the horizontal mambo, after which you brag to your friends, "I had a time with Sally, Friday," and in the future they can drink all the beer in your apartment and won't expect you for late-night video games.



Things progress and all…

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Added by Joe Gensle on May 27, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Insurance Man Disappears: Search Focus Near Swamp

It’s black as pitch an' nighttime in the backwater got a chorus o’ animal and insect noise all its own but it don’t mean you feel any bettah 'bout bein’ out in it by your lonesome.



This was one o’ them very nights when a car parked on the ’shine road with the light on inside and some city boy all spreadin’ out the map on the dash with that interior light o’ that dinky foreign car, that light seeable for miles like a lighthouse.



He in a white shirt and loosed-up tie lookin‘… Continue

Added by Joe Gensle on May 24, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Good Grief

Nettie wasn't aware Roland had slipped out of the house when she startled to find him coming in the kitchen door, grinning, holding an old kitchen clock with its plug dragging along the floor. He pointed toward the downstairs room into which she'd moved him with the Alzheimer's diagnosis as she gently scolded him for leaving, finally smiling to say, "Yes, honey, I know you need to fix it and it's okay."



Roland sold his shop and retired 26 years earlier but continued to tinker with… Continue

Added by Joe Gensle on May 19, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

9th St. Diner: A Lesson from Coobie

Coobie knew no one at the diner paid him any never mind in that threadbare beige sweater he loved, sittin' on one of only two stools after the last curve of the L-shaped counter, with me next to him on the other.



Irene had a case of the sharps and figured him rightly and early-on to eat the same thing every mornin': a grilled sweet roll, poached egg on top, and coffee. Fact is, she gave him the name, "Coobie" cuz every time she'd poke him with a question, "Think it's gonna rain,… Continue

Added by Joe Gensle on May 18, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

Single-handed Solace

In my 20s, I stopped 'looking.' I decided I'd take care of me, find a hobby or something into which to sink my passion and attract someone to me in a common interest circle.



I bought a small racing sailboat that took me out of the bars and the games and the 'scene.'



My life changed for the better.



The more I focused on my sailing skills, the more a growing circle of young women continued to be drawn to me.



The ballast of a bikini'ed butt on the rail… Continue

Added by Joe Gensle on May 14, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

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