Kendall Defoe

Joined February 2018

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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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How It Becomes You
You pretend that you’re not looking (the first time) Then you see she’s holding a heavy book in her hands and you wonder what
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
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Note: I am submitting this on the 30th anniversary of Nirvana's 'Nevermind'. I was in high school and faced a similar moment like the one in this story. Also, it was one day before my 18th birthday (yeah, tomorrow is my birthday).
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Fiction
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Douglas Adams created the best world for fans of science fiction, technology and the changes that come with it, and the unknown. He also did so with a very healthy sense of British humour (the best there is).
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Geeks
Return
This is an honest picture of what it is often like for me to return to where I once was... Hell, I thought as the cabbies
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Poets
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
Trigger
Warning: this is the first in the set of series of warnings. Be sure to look for more warnings to come. Bring in several of your friends and relatives who are susceptible to warnings.
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Poets
While You Were Out...
A little background info... I wrote this while staying with a friend in a guest house in Japan, and came up with the idea for it because of a girl (why else would I write a poem?).
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Poets
The Professor
Before I begin, I'd like to thank you for taking a meeting with me during what must be a very busy time of the year. I know the pressures you're under, but I cannot hold back any longer. I have already waited long enough.
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Fiction
Why We Need Poets
This is just another of my experiments and thoughts about what poetry can mean: We never had a poem from the hands of
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Poets
Observations I
You can go gentle into that good night (who would mind?) The world can end with a bang and a whimper. Between the Idea and the Reality is
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Poets