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the official home of rolli author cartoonist and songwriter skip to content the official home of rolli author cartoonist and songwriter twitter menu who books recent work cartoons shop music contact newsletter featured presenting plumstuff hello friends a poet robot a chain smoking seductress a dying connoisseur all of these characters and more make appearances in my new collection of poems and drawings plumstuff out today plumstuff is a reinvention of my out of print debut plum stuff it contains 20 revised poems from that collection plus 40 new ones and all new drawings poems and drawings from plumstuff have appeared in the walrus rattle the saturday evening post the wall street journal transition the feathertale review the new quarterly quarterly west the antigonish review and other outlets here s what the critics are saying quirky and fanciful a wild curiosity shop broken pencil this is a book for those who truly love words cloud lake literary bursting full in its depths cinnabar moth sit with these poems give them a 2nd or third go round let them marinate the brain a bit so you can fully savor the flavor the poetry conversation a wonderful collection of poetry and drawings grist there are many ways to get your hands on plumstuff my online store the rolli shop ships to every country on earth and there s always amazon usa amazon canada and amazon uk whatever the method i hope you enjoy the book it was a labor of love and i couldn t be happier with it take care friends cheers advertisements rolliwrites uncategorized 15 comments march 16 2022 march 17 2024 1 minute hello substack greetings friends just a quick note to let you know i m moving my posts to substack if you re already a subscriber here don t worry i ve redirected your subscription to substack where i m looking forward to seeing you if you have a substack newsletter too let me know asap and i ll subscribe my newsletter is called rolli writes and will feature original essays fiction poetry obsessions observations and updates whatever i feel like posting whenever i feel like posting it not too often though my first missive is in progress and will be published later in the week here s the link to rolli writes https rolliwrites substack com i hope to see you there soon cheers rolli rolliwrites uncategorized leave a comment march 18 2026 1 minute new poem in queen s quarterly hello friends just sharing my latest piece a short poem from the new issue of queen s quarterly you ll find it on the back cover i hope you re doing well cheers rolli buy me a coffee rolliwrites uncategorized leave a comment march 6 2026 1 minute mascot terrors and drunk mothers greetings just popping in to let you know about two new just published pieces the first is an essay in chapter 16 about how i conquered my masklophobia an irrational fear of mascots by becoming what i feared most the mascot chronicles the second is mom s drunk a short story in expat press mom s drunk rolli how have you been cheers rolli buy me a coffee rolliwrites uncategorized leave a comment march 2 2026 1 minute the malevolent octopus hello friends just letting you know about my latest essay the malevolent octopus a brief dream odyssey which was recently published in outlook springs the malevolent octopus a brief dream odyssey have a great week cheers rolli buy me a coffee rolliwrites uncategorized leave a comment february 2 2026 1 minute naked in a graveyard hello friends just letting you know about my latest short story naked in a graveyard which was just published in transition and reprinted on medium have a look i hope you re doing well cheers rolli buy me a coffee rolliwrites uncategorized leave a comment december 19 2025 february 2 2026 1 minute new essay insomniac hello friends just letting you know about my new humorous essay insomniac which was just published in cutleaf it s all about the quest for a good night s sleep i hope you enjoy it insomniac cheers rolli buy me a coffee rolliwrites uncategorized 2 comments december 5 2025 1 minute my latest poem for the new york times hello friends my latest poem for the new york times central park 9 a m was published today if you enjoy the poem you might like my latest collection plumstuff have a great day cheers rolli rolliwrites uncategorized 2 comments august 31 2025 august 31 2025 1 minute mr ainsley s new hat a story you look wonderful in that hat every morning i step onto the balcony of my apartment with my coffee and stare at the building across the street that blocks the sunrise it s probably a gorgeous sunrise i told myself one monday taking a sip of coffee in the corner of my eye i saw a pigeon but it was mr ainsley my neighbor he was standing next to the stone gargoyle on the ledge between our balconies palms pressed flat against the wall he was wearing a bowler hat and a grey suit morning mr ainsley he was breathing deeply nice day isn t it he swallowed a gush of wind blew mr ainsley s hat off we both watched it fall twenty four stories to the street a taxi drove over it i looked at my watch it was 7 30 i have to go to work if i m even one minute late brenda will frown at me i downed the rest of my coffee have a good day mr ainsley didn t say anything he was still gazing down at his hat on tuesday morning i brewed some coffee and opened the balcony door mr ainsley was still on the ledge he was breathing even harder now and rubbing the grey stubble on his chin would you like some coffee i poured him a cup reached through the balcony bars and sat it on the ledge i watched mr ainsley meticulously step over the gargoyle and edge closer several minutes later he picked up the cup it s probably cold by now mr ainsley shrugged i forgot to ask if you take cream and sugar he seemed to be drinking it anyway i sat down the sunrise was beautiful presumably the machine got jammed yesterday when i was making copies brenda came into the copy room and frowned at me mr ainsley nodded sipping his coffee when he finished he set the cup on the ledge he shooed the pigeon off the gargoyle and maneuvered back over it it was close to 7 30 dangerously close i polished off my coffee see you tomorrow i was drinking from my biggest mug because it was wednesday then i dropped the folder and pages went everywhere one of them slid under the door of brenda s office and she came out frowning mr ainsley was half listening he was leaning on the gargoyle s head abstractedly fussing with his cufflink on a balcony across the street a woman was painting a picture of something i wondered if it was a sunrise i stepped inside and back out with my binoculars i focused on the painting it was a plain grey rectangle i scanned every balcony from the top of the building to the bottom but didn t see anything then i saw a pigeon on the sidewalk and focused on that no it was mr ainsley s flattened bowler hat i sighed mr ainsley sighed too brenda didn t invite me to her birthday party she invited everyone in the office except me i gave her a pigeon pendant anyway and she frowned at me mr ainsley blinked he was holding my favorite grey mug but wasn t drinking from it he hadn t touched yesterday s cup either i decided i wasn t in the mood for conversation i flipped through a book during a sunrise short wavelengths are scattered leaving longer wavelengths like orange red and yellow i closed the book and stared at the building across the street for a minute then i looked at my watch it was 7 31 i dropped the book and my coffee and sprinted inside on friday mr ainsley was sitting on the gargoyle s back with his eyes closed there was a pile of dried grey pigeon shit on top of his bald head i nursed my coffee and told him about my dream i was sitting on the balcony drinking my coffee when suddenly the sun rose the building across the street was gone i saw all the colors orange red yellow my eyes glowed orange red yellow don t turn your head i thought but i did i turned my head and saw the gargoyle it was frowning at me i glanced at mr ainsley but he still hadn t opened his eyes he must ve been sleeping my alarm didn t go off so there was no time for coffee saturday morning i had one after dinner instead i slipped into my grey pajamas it was a chilly night and carried my cup outside as i sipped i heard whimpering sounds i wasn t sure if it was pigeons or mr ainsley i peered through the darkness at the ledge but couldn t see anything i leaned over the railing and still couldn t see anything are you there mr ainsley there was no response i sat back down i was going to mention something about brenda but i didn t see the point i swallowed my coffee in silence the moon is superb i told myself i looked everywhere but couldn t find it i go for a long walk alone in the park every sunday morning i breathe the fresh air i feed the pigeons i was scattering breadcrumbs when brenda and her greyhound came bounding down the path i hid behind a tree until they passed me that afternoon i went shopping strolling home with a cappuccino i passed quinton s haberdashery i stopped because there was a bowler hat in the window i left the store twirling the hat around my finger the sun was setting behind my building as i approached it i was pretty sure i was about to look up when something landed on the ground right beside me it was mr ainsley how are you mr ainsley didn t answer so i asked him again nothing i stared at him a minute then i put the new bowler hat on his head you look wonderful in that hat said someone walking by her friend nodded in agreement i gazed down at mr ainsley yes i had to agree he did look good mr ainsley s new hat appears in the spring summer issue of transition reprinted with the kind permission of the publisher if you enjoyed this story please consider buying me a coffee rolliwrites uncategorized leave a comment july 5 2025 july 5 2025 4 minutes writing stories i didn t feel anything at all when they froze me to death i liked writing stories but no one has read stories since the 70s a man in a trench coat told me an editor then he went back into the liquor store i thought about killing myself but it was too expensive i didn t feel anything at all when they froze me to death when they woke me up i was in incredible pain they also had to electrocute me which was painful as hell welcome mr izmiris to the year 2076 a man in a wheelchair took me on a tour of the city when he finished he gave me the key to the city it s an honor i said we give it to everyone he said out of breath there was a crater where my old apartment used to be but i found a charred notebook with thoughts and fancies written on the cover the inside was blank there was a singed pencil too i sat in the crater all day writing stories it was a lot colder due to global warming we could have sex i looked up the old woman was standing on a slant there were about a million crows on the skyscraper behind her the skyscraper fell over the woman didn t even turn her head about a million crows flew up then the woman dropped down dead it was cold as hell on the subway when i started crying a staggering man put his arm around me an editor listen he said i sympathize with you a lot i died but it didn t hurt because i can t remember he told me about the time he fell off his bicycle the ambulance ran over him a tear started falling but he caught it in time eventually he agreed to look at my stories he didn t read them exactly no he said flipping pages they re too far fetched i was writing about my life i said a rat ran past the editor dropped my notebook he was still chasing the rat when the subway squealed to a stop the sun went down a shell of frost formed over everything to warm up i took a walk in central park central park was the name of the biggest crater i passed a guy on a burnt bench swallowing wine an editor when it s as cold as it is you just need to stand outside for a while you don t need cryogenics he was right my blood was freezing see the gargoyles up there he pointed to the war monument that was the only thing in the park that was still standing they re actually writers you re allowed to paint over them if you avoid the eyes really they might wake up one day he emptied the bottle probably not a man with dirt or makeup on his face walked by his fly was down the editor jumped up and followed him it took me an hour to climb the monument i hadn t eaten since 1976 there was a gap between gargoyles so i squeezed between them i crouched down the paint was flaking off the white gargoyle it was black underneath i took out my notebook and wrote down everything i d seen and heard that day even this the editor crawled out of the bushes up to the war monument he defecated next to it i closed the notebook i scratched out thoughts and fancies then i wrote down do not thaw until 2176 writing stories was first published as mr izmiris in broken pencil if you enjoyed this story please buy me a coffee rolliwrites uncategorized 3 comments june 21 2025 2 minutes news best of rattle hello friends one of my poems free speech being nowabouts has won a best of rattle award you can find it in the new anthology pictured above keep an eye out too for new poems in the new york times queen s quarterly and other spots how are you doing cheers rolli buy me a coffee rolliwrites uncategorized 1 comment june 5 2025 1 minute posts navigation older posts website powered by wordpress com website powered by wordpress com subscribe subscribed rollistuff com join 3 635 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy rollistuff com subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website