Royal Treatment These poems, as I see them, reflect conditions that prevail at the Diesel Cafe. The “Beautiful Sandwich” is a delight that calls forth how well Diesel patrons are treated day-by-day. Even the most ordinary order gets royal treatment. “When Grace at the Bliss Cafe Calls” is much more serious and describes a grief …
Return to Oz I once had a Couchsurfer named Candy Royalle. We connected immediately over our partly shaved heads and over poetry. She was going to stay 3 days and she ended up staying a couple of weeks. On her way out of Boston, and back to Australia, she asked where she might stop for …
An Ode to the Diesel Bathrooms Your door, always ajar Beckoning me into your fluorescent fold Mirror reflecting the purple hue of an obsidian space I take out my phone, snap a picture, capturing a moment When my bone structure looks great, but also I felt held You’ve been there in times of need When …
Diesel Love Stories 