Kendall Defoe
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Teacher, reader, writer, dreamer... I am a college instructor who cannot stop letting his thoughts end up on the page. No AI. No Fake Work. It's all me...
And I did this:
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A Taste for Spam
I know that I am not alone in this, so I will comment on it. You can ignore the occasional junk mail. You can dismiss the offer of a lottery win, or the handling of millions of dollars, pounds or euros...for a small fee. You can laugh at the silliness of offers that are so ridiculous that you even write an occasional article about them (I confess that I have done this). But this is not funny anymore.
By Kendall Defoe 10 months ago in 01
Political Sixteen
Note: in Canada, with our parliamentary system of government, the current leader of the ruling party has contacted the governor general to call for an election, and I realized that I had another subject for a haiku in my series until I finish up some longer pieces. Should the age be lowered to 16 in my country? It is the age of consent, so...why not?
By Kendall Defoe 10 months ago in Poets
"The Fan" Gets Another Chance.... Honorable Mention in Self-Editing Epiphany Challenge.
Here is the original poem: There are some Challenges where I feel that the Vocal Gods are smiling down on me. There is work that I have produced that has brought out the best in me; sometimes it has brought out things I did not know existed in me. And I feel that I really do have something to say with this one.
By Kendall Defoe 10 months ago in Critique
Something in the Air
The moment that he felt the wind touch his face, he knew that they were going to take him out. The tunnel was dark for most of his walk, but Morgan thought that it would go on and on for as long as he needed it. The ground felt stable and it was easy to just walk and walk until he saw a pinprick of light leading to somewhere he knew he wanted to get to; that was why he was here.
By Kendall Defoe 10 months ago in Humor
To Blurb or Not to Blurb
From the dust jacket of this week's bestseller: One of the greatest novels of the past year, the author must be commended for his approach to the epic story of a boy, a girl and a sandwich during the Great War! - P. P. Simoleon, The Picayune Gazette
By Kendall Defoe 10 months ago in Humor
The Maid
“You have got to be kidding!” If it had been a different morning, things might have gone a different way, but here she was, once again, taking a pile of abuse from another driver who did not put enough change into the parking meter before heading in to buy something in what looked like a very upscale store. She noted that the woman staring daggers at her had two very large bags in her hands and was driving an SUV. And was this a zone for only handicapped parking? No, that was not under her jurisdiction. She only covered what the city demanded as payment for the privilege of parking.
By Kendall Defoe 10 months ago in Fiction
Café Etiquette
This was inspired by one of my own comments: Take a look at these brain droppings once again, and please note that I have commented on many small details about life that we often ignore. Here, I wrote about how the best cafés serve coffee not worth their particular atmospheres, and many of you were amused by this thought. And I may one day continue with these lines (so much to contain in notebooks).
By Kendall Defoe 11 months ago in Feast
The Merella Papers. Top Story - March 2025.
Note: this poem was written about a very personal moment in my life. I met my half-sister when I was living and working in Montréal as a grad student. I saw her photograph when I was a teenager, but it was many years before we met. And I wrote this as a way to understand my emotions and feelings about chance, love and how life can throw you curves you never expect.
By Kendall Defoe 11 months ago in Poets
