Bad Gabe, BAD!!! Okay...

I have been neglectful (<-- according to Android I just made up that word) about this blog lately and I apologize to anyone who cares.  I have more things going than I have time to do.  I guess that's what it is like being ambitious.

Seriously, though, if I can get my writing career going and also get into grad school, then I will have more time to work on my writing projects.  I would love to be able to focus full time as a writer, and I feel teaching is an extension of that.  That's why I need to be back in school.  Well, that and it is a more guaranteed way of earning an income.

Still, though, I can dream about being a professional writer and work towards setting myself up for such.  Maybe I will not be successful, but at least I will be able to say tried.

Plus, I have been working on my book, and, the closer to being done, the more excited I get about it.  I have come up with a killer name and re-worked the chapters so there are fewer and they fall in natural breaks in the story.  I'm also changing the names to the final names, developing the characters entirely, sewing together the threads that build the many layers of ideas, and editing out unnecessary parts/characters to make it more tightly focused.  It's a process.  Once I am happy with the story then I will focus on the words:  I will line edit thoroughly.

Well, that's about all.  Also, wish me luck on the GRE.

Toodles!

Gabe does William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"

I wrote these for my poety class.  Enjoy.

1.

I’m sorry I gave

You syphilis

You had better

Get that treated.

Trust me

I let it go

And now I’m

In great pain.

I had a good

Time and so did

You, that’s what

Matters, right?

2.

I smoked the

Last of the crack.

I’m not sorry,

Though.

I think that

You have a

Problem and

Need treatment.

Perhaps you

Should go to

Betty Ford. I hear

It’s nice there.

3.

I have eaten

The paint chips

That were flaking

Off the icebox

They don’t use

Lead paint on

Metal, do they?

I don’t think so...

They went well

With my cereal.

Fruit Loops never

Tasted so good.

Revelations With Extreme Prejudice

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." -- Revelation, 22. 13

And he comes down from the heavens, an Elvis looking Jesus in a wool suit and tie, with a Gideon’s Bible in his back pocket.  Jesus is an Evangelical.  His own light reflects off of his magnificent cross medallion and blinds the onlookers of the world with righteous fury.  His eyes wear a self-assured scowl behind his sunglasses, but no one can see that except for him.  Behold, the Archangels, smiling with certitude, on his flanks armed with automatic weapons.  With a sweeping point of his finger he sends all the sinners to Hell and all the saints to Heaven.