Author: Matthew Rodriguez

I wrote so many in college, but what were they all for? Oh, that’s right, for a grade. At least that’s what they taught me in high school. It occurred to nobody to mention it was an exercise in critical thinking –wisdom building. Smart enough to realize, but too young…

Things might somewhat change for the better in the external, but seemingly the internal will always be haunted despite knowledge that should appease it. Whether you think or not, the horrors are there. It is their home, and like the Madrileños from Olivo street, refuse eviction. A Baptist man stops…

It is ironic how so many of us became so glued and addicted to our own creations. To solve some problems, we created so many more, and Will our shortsightedness lead to our premature doom or will we listen to the wise sometime? You can go a whole life, and…

There comes a time when you’ve gone through something so many times it doesn’t make any sense to go through it anymore. It is, however, difficult to recover. Difficult to become someone else. Some help is always warranted. Time got you this far, maybe just give it a little more…

In here, in this place I can feel my heart starting to give out like a warning that my time has begun to run out, and I wonder if these are merely poetic musings or anatomical realities vested upon me through lineage. My time along with everyone else’s began running…

It was a night around this time six years ago when I was on my way to pick up the blonde for our first date. I was a stranger in that structure patrolled by twelve paws. In the darkness of the night, I approached and saw the four paws that…

I was planning to make my move to The Walled City when a woman who I grew up with contacted me, saying she needed my help. However surprised I was, I accepted unsure of what that decision would bring or how it would alter the path I was on. She…

Sitting out on the rooftop porch again, looking at the trees, thinking, writing. It’s cloudy, windy, and rainy. A plane’s engines are heard overhead along with a dog’s bark in the distance. A man’s voice speaks over a loudspeaker, but I can’t make out what he’s saying. Perhaps a holiday…

A new year isn’t a time to become perfect and infalible such is what dreams are made of. A new year is instead a time to leave unhelpful habits behind, unhelpful thoughts, unhelpful behaviors in favor of the beneficial. A time to chase down goals meaningful to you. A time…

Someone who believes in what the horoscope says would probably say I attracted the Zippo to myself because I put it out into the Universe. Or so it goes. I don’t know much about that, but the Zippo did come to me. A friend of mine gave me his after…