Jason Ryberg
The Imp of the Perverse
You would think that at this stage of the game one would have
their business together enough, at least, in regards to the
basics of maintenance and general upkeep, risk assessment and
impulse control, but no, the ability to momentarily let one's
judgment drift askew into the oncoming lane of bad decision
making is bone deep and muscle memorized, most likely mixed
into the very ink in which the sacred script of the DNA is
written, and no matter how much cognitive therapy you've
had or how many years it's been since your last incident, you
know your old road dog / runnin' buddy from way back will
always be there, waiting for you to call.
Bio
Jason Ryberg is the author of eighteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and, a couple of angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His latest collection of poems is The Great American Pyramid Scheme (co-authored with W.E. Leathem, Tim Tarkelly and Mack Thorn, OAC Books, 2022). He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.