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...
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You Can Dance, Or...
Oh, Halloween. You never let me down. I have very fond memories of All Hallow’s Eve. We were always out and about with our costumes, pillow cases and garbage bags, with a spring in our step and dark thoughts in our hearts. Even as a child, I thought of Halloween as not a time for candy and costumes, but a time to reflect on the darkness out there and in us. I had begun watching horror films as a child and never stopped, not even when teachers and counselors warned us about the dangers of too much exposure to those fantasies on celluloid.
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Beat
Fall is a Verb
This is just where my head is at with October here and another autumn upon us. I wish that I could get more responses on my work and hear what people actually have to say about my writing. Poetry is something that is much harder for me to write as the years pass because I feel that I have to read the work of the best before I even try to create. Also, I write poetry in rough on paper (never directly to the computer screen). A longer process, but one that feels right
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Poets
A Small Victory
I still wonder how anyone gets through their adolescence. I had heard statistics as a young man about the suicide rate among us, and also knew about all the dangers out there that would eventually claim many in my circle of friendships and family (death, jail, drugs, disappearance, etc.)
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Psyche
Mr. Know-It-All
Who is John Waters? The Prince of Puke? The Sultan of Sleaze? The Pope of Trash? I thought I knew the answer to that first question long before I read anything that he put between the covers of a hardback book. And yet, here I am, looking at a copy of “Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder”, still baffled by the man and his work.
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Humans
Taste Test
Erin knew that they lived nearby, had the same days off, and had not tried these particular bars, so he was glad to drink with them at Gala Brothers. It was a series of bars in the area near their ESL school that varied from Gala Brothers to Gala Cabin to Gala Set. Erin knew about a Gala Jalibu, but he never found it. This one would be enough.
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Fiction
