Author Archives: jackpelham

They will invite you up frontAnd hand you the micAnd let you have a go of itHoping they have foundA new championAnd judging the matterBy little more than the levelOf the audience’s enthusiasm.

He who thinks that authority on EarthIs a stick to be wielded cavalierlyHas got another thing coming.

He reposes in humorAs if on a kind sabbaticalFrom weightier mattersIn deference to the sensibilitiesOf a fragile worldWho can at presentHandle nothing more.

Some have gotten themselves so emotionally conditioned that they simply cannot endure the amount of drama that it would take to improve their lives, or anyone else’s. Thus, they rule themselves out from the improvements, opting to walk away from … Continue reading →

It will gall you to knowThat I can sense your gaslightingEven before I have figured outThe particular trick you’ve gotWrapped up in it. You are not as opaqueAs you believe—Nor I as stupid.

As comes the morningSo comes the Spring

Most people are said to be “neurotypical”—meaning, more or less, that the way their minds work is “normal”. And then, in contrast to that, there are the “neurodiverse” people, who are “wired” differently in one way or another, we are … Continue reading →