Poor Mojo's Newswire

Dear Giant Squid,

Should I go into business with my father-in-law?

Best,
Chris in Roanoke

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My Dearest Chris d' Roanoke,

I am going to "apply the level" with you: Probably, no. But, to every "probably no" there is, like the yin's yang, a "but maybe yes," so let us approach the matter with the cold, concise logic of the consummate business person. ...

... "You're nothin' but an embarrassment ifya ask me—It's alright ta be yaself and all, but I draw the line when a youngin' like you makes ah cheap FREAK outta themselves for any lil PIMP and PERV that comes by—Listen child, when you're livin' under MY roof and eatin' MY food, you can forgiddabout runnin' round like ah ten-cent floozy." ...

the platform
eternal pausing, the shells
of smoked peanuts
scattered
drips of tea on the stone bench
cold, now
and as I watch the train pull away
dragging a bit of my heart
with each chug
across the littered tracks ...

... Various opinions have been hazarded concerning dreams—whether they have any connection with the invisible and eternal world or not; and, it appears to me, the reason why nothing like a definite conclusion has yet been arrived at, is from the circumstance of the arguers never making any distinction between Mind and Soul; always speaking of them as one and the same. I believe man to be in himself a Trinity, viz. Mind, Body, and Soul; and thus with dreams, some induced by the mind, and some by the soul. Those connected with the mind, I think proceed partly from supernatural, and partly from natural causes; those of the soul I believe are of the immaterial world alone. ...