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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Deputy
It was a long time before anyone spoke, but the boy knew almost immediately that he had made a mistake. “What kind of a question is that?” His father, halfway through his rice pilaf and roasted vegetables, was frozen with anger. He shook his dreadlocks at the boy and seemed to be on the edge of breakdown. “Who would ask such a thing over dinner?”
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Fiction
The Thursday Haiku
Note: It was not a great day for me, and I needed to create this. I could explain everything that happened to be today, but I am going to let this poem get it all out. I think that I have reached my limit, and that I need to take a real break before I collapse and find myself a short-term shut in.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Poets
The Assistant
The following letter was found in the desk of Ms. Sue Alva McIntyre, a former mother of four, grandmother of five, who decided to share the material with her local library many years ago. The letter itself was found in the archives and there was much speculation as to why it was never shared with the general public (such matters should become clear to the reader). It was deemed historically significant, and therefore shared with the general public.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in History
Jurassic Punk
Note: I have been experimenting with the poems I have created for this challenge, and I have a conundrum: one limerick and two haikus (what should I submit?). There is very little chance that I will win this one, so I am going to share all three with you here.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Poets
Goodbye, Alice
Sometimes a shock does not feel like a total shock; some of them can sneak up on you and knock you off your feet and make you wonder if there is still justice in this world. With the loss of Alice Munro, I feel like I am straddling both extremes...
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Writers
My Top Five YouTube Channels
Maybe I am getting softer in my old age, but television and most movies do nothing for me now. Yes, I did see a few Hollywood films this past year – “Oppenheimer” and “Poor Things” – but I am more likely to rely on my own collection of DVDs and saved files that I have managed to compile and not betray by heading off to one of the online channels that gives you a taste of what’s out there, and then decides to remove them to make way for the next waste of time. I did this because I realized that someone was piggybacking onto my account, and that I preferred borrowing what I could from libraries and friends, or finding them at secondhand and surplus stores keeping the faith with us lovers of solid media.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Geeks
The Very Last Star Wars Haiku
Note: Yes, I have been busy with quite a few other things with the approach of summer. I have still been dumping (sad word) books and trying to find a new place. A move might be on the docket, but I could not forget my Vocal fans, despite all the recent technical problems.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Poets
Versus I
Note: Again, I am in the middle of doing multiple things all at once. No luck on the househunting, but taxes are done, exams (first set) are marked (have time off to contemplate what my students do not know); I cleaned, swept, wiped and ran when I could. And it is a beautiful day to start sharing this particular idea.
By Kendall Defoe 2 years ago in Poets
