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JK Fowler: Gossamer Notes
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Gossamer notes by JK Fowler. If you are looking to laugh, cry, think about strange things or normal things in new and unexpected ways, this blog is for you. Within, you'll find explorations in poetry, short stories, NYC notes, Paris notes, Berlin notes, pieces marked Communion, film critique, and essays and articles on everything from District 9 to corporate structures of sentiment.
Recent Posts
Wallpaper
“Let’s change it to yellow. You always liked yellow, right?” He doesn’t care what color they change it to. All he knows is the wallpaper needs to go according to his wife, it’s his one day off a week from work and they a...
Sparrow
The sparrow twists its little head left, then right. It knows what we are thinking, studies us, flits away and posts itself gallantly on the weathered tree branches now barren. Thriving off of the growth of civilization, the sparrow has adapted to th...
Prayers Unanswered
A tragic story of a father left in the dark. Listen here: Prayers Unanswered ...
50 Degrees, Cold and Cloudy
Truly these are troubled times When the nearest one can get to one’s brethren Is a ten-foot pole’s length, And the most one can talk about With one’s nearest neighbor Is the goddamn weather. ...
Moonbeam Corporations
Faulty beams of fluorescent light Shine upon the moonbeam corporations And the red lights of braking commuters Burn through the dark entrails Of the never-ending freeway. Walmarts, In and Outs, Applebees, Valeros and Shells and I sit, Encased ...
Deadlines
Something was due. He knew this and it made him uneasy, rolled around in his stomach, punched him in the gut every time he thought about it. He tried the normal routes of procrastination: the painting of the walls, the cleaning of the bathroom, the m...

