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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The Appointment
Missed a meeting? Late? Two shits passing in their spite? Get a proper watch! * Thank you for reading! If you liked this poem, you can add your Insights, Comment, leave a Heart, Tip, Pledge, or Subscribe. I will appreciate any support you have shown for my work.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Poets
The Study of It
Horology? Ha! A joke in itself, because... Time makes us all whores. * Thank you for reading! If you liked this, you can add your Insights, Comment, leave a Heart, Tip, Pledge, or Subscribe. I will appreciate any support you have shown for my work.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Poets
How to Build a Firm Foundation
If walls could talk…we would probably all lose our minds. No, not you. Not at all, I think. You seem to be quite sane, although I wonder why you exert yourself this way. All that walking with the others on this strip of earth that must be hundreds of meters long. It makes sense that you would need a break, and then stretch and walk over to somewhere a little more secluded. At least you did not run away because you thought you were hallucinating. You are absolutely all right. I can talk. And I have a story to tell.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Fiction
Upstart or Start Up?
“‘I’m feeling JPEG rich and crypto poor.’” – From the article, “In the Bubble” (The New Yorker: December 5, 2022) Another cold season is upon us. I am stuck here in Montreal, considering what 2023 is going to bring, besides wishing for an early end to the season (that groundhog better make me smile). My resolutions involve very simple things – exercise, learning a skill that I should have had by now (ice skating; sue me), and finally renewing my driver’s license (did not have much need for it in this city) – and then other things that might be a little trickier.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Trader
Surviving January
Another year means another chance, so they say. I am back to working on my schedule of classes at two different schools, and as I write this, I have heard an announcer on the radio warn us of the “January Blahs”. This I am very familiar with: those feelings of being run down and restless that hits us at the beginning of the year. The days are still too short; the weather is still too cold; the bills that you thought you could handle keep piling up. I myself spent the holidays with my family in a slightly less-colder part of the country (not really a vacation, despite seeing all those familiar faces and indulging in all that food and drink). So, my thoughts are on how to get through this time of the year sane and stable.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Lifehack
The Unprofessional
All stories really are about leaving town or arriving in one. She was trying to remember who said that, and it bothered her that it was a mystery; also, the train’s slight lurch pushed her back into her seat, and that had irritated her neck. In first class, she thought that she would truly be able to set her thoughts down, whether in a notebook she had just bought and really did not need, or in the space on the screen of her cell phone. She stared at both of them and tried to remember.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Fiction
Life as Lab Rat
You never know what you are capable of until you have no choice but to face the truth, and your own bank account. I had no money to my name after two years into a master’s program at McGill University, and the summer, once again, promised very little except contract ESL (English as a Second Language) teaching and some private language students who often had classes with me more out of pity than for self-improvement. Usually, with the two roommates who paid their share of the rent of time when they remembered, this worked. But this particular summer ahead of me seemed to be closing tightly around even my very small income. I had to find more money, maybe even earn it in a productive way.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Confessions
