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The Voyeurism of a Free Faller

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I wrote this piece after I told the originator of the youtube video "Mieders Alpine Coaster" by David Jellis how I felt watching it. I admitted I was a voyeur not a participant, but that his video fascinated me to the point that I needed to write ab

Fuck Yeah America

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After sportscasters announced the assassination and while the reverberations of the words were still fading people were already shouting

TRAUMA

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Everybody breaks. Everything splinters.

The seduction

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1. HeWomen's heads turned when Remy stopped in the doorway — as they always did. He noticed — as he always did — but paid no attention as he scanned the room. Too nervy to care. No sign of Fiona. Good. It paid to be the one doing the…

Infamy

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These were the kind of days children dreamed of. A warm sun shone over Coronado, California. December weather on the island did not prevent outside play. The wind off the bay remained soft, even if chilled. Church let out early. There was time to pla

The City of Lights

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Paris is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Off Island

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There were only six passengers aboard the small ferry...

shakey

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You held my hand when I hit the ground and told me the shakes would start soon.

left handed

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under your skin the moon is alive

Polo

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“You look strangely familiar,” he said, taking a drink and swinging his leg over the horse, landing on the ground beside me ...

Perfect

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a perfect afternoon

Guinness for Iron

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My sister / craves raisons

The Sound of Human Lives

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The room smelled of an old rank basement. Boys and girls of all ages crowded the stage. The room was dark with only a few lights that hung from above keeping the crowd dark and silhouetting Chris on drums.

War Then

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They were just boys, the Nazis I mean, young in their twenties, not much older than my brother Cyril.

You'll Know

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When you see him, you'll know.That's what the prophecy was. Well, part of it, at least. The prophecy that Tabitha was to be the next Earth mother. That when she saw her partner, she would know. Keith, and his mission partner, and the elders, they had made it so. Made it…

Dog Years

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Already my back aches

AnythingAnythingAnything

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I’ll sit up all night, I don’t mind. I don’t have to Go to work, Or Wake up early.

Bodies Approaching Rest

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He hates this body no less now/ than he did at 14 for its pudginess/ and the hair that can’t conform

The River of the Parched Spirit

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anxiety said Kierkegaard is the dizziness of freedom

Betrayal

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Betrayal of course is the great human crime. As I found out when . . . .

Between Our Words

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There are problems we lovingly fashion . . .

Morphine

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Until the ivy hides me in

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.3 - c.5

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The old man moved on an automatic wheelchair. He stopped just short of Sora. He waited for her to move, but all she did was shed one tear.

Grey.

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"I found a grey pubic hair the other day."

The next hour

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I allow myself one hour every two weeks. Devoting 335 of my 336 hours to her and the kids is beyond dutiful.

Paradise Island

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A man comes out of the waves

Kilz

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He flipped through a book of poems Ani’d given me. Nothing fell out so he tore it in two. I said his mama must notta read to this one and one of the older cops laughed and he hit me.

When Spectacle Replaces Ritual,

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The aisle, nave and/ transept twist themselves/ into an auditorium.

Anticipation

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before your full lips touch mine.

Seascape

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1. Walking here with you on these narrow strands of clean air & imagination