[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

"this is the world as best as I can remember it"

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Brick by Brick

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Brick by brick, stone by stone someone builds  a house, but  time and neglect  wear it down ‘til we talk  about its bones. When life wears  ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Messed Up Me

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There was a time in the past when I felt utterly alone, like in those post-apocalyptic movies where a nuclear catastrophe or virus has wiped...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Worlds Overlap

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Such a strange but compelling idea: that worlds overlap. That there is an unseen reality intermingled with our own. Maybe that is the orig...
Wednesday, October 04, 2023

The Paradox of Paradise

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When life is no longer kind I will spite it with kindnesses seldom seen in this cruel world. The incongruity will shake the  universe and br...

Alien Abduction

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  It’s sad and sweet all at the same time.  My daughter was looking for me before leaving for her field hockey practice and couldn’t find me...
Monday, October 02, 2023

The Uncanny Owls

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  The Uncanny Owls meet on the roof  of Newcom’s tavern on Tuesdays.   Bring your lawn chairs and your airs.   Once a month there’s a Blues ...
Sunday, October 01, 2023

All Things Must Pass

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  I had a keen appreciation for the Beatles in my high school and college days, collecting a handful of their albums on CD in the late 80’s ...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

The Bookmark

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  This guy.   He’s a book mark  in the long novel that is my life,  a place keeper  in my heart. The beginning  and the end  that is just  a...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

The Statue of Psychiatry

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  Give me your tired, your poor,  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free (Grant is a smoke free environment)  The wretched refuse of y...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

This City

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  This city is a dream to some a nightmare to others a plodding existence to most. ***
Friday, September 22, 2023

The Camera Man

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  My eyelids have clicked the shutter and your image is now captured in the catacombs of my memory. It is an involuntary reflex, storing and...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

ZOMBIE

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  The world had gone to hell and I wasn’t sure what had sparked it, but I did know it had happened on the heels of my son moving off to coll...
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A. Monk
“Aaroneous Monk” brings to mind the image of a bumbling but well-meaning hermit who continually trips himself up in his overgrown beard as he attempts to battle evil in the world but, more often than not, forgets about the darkness in his own heart. It also sounds similar to the legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, but with a faux-Greek twist. Thelonious was known for being able to maintain two disparate rhythms going at the same time with his hands seemingly disconnected from each other. That kinda sums up my struggle...
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