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Confessions of an Impersonal Spectator

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This is why I’ve decided to assign myself a position in life similar to that of Stuart Sutcliffe with the Beatles.

Thanksgiving

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Unless we see it, probe it, Name it, star by star, and feel This awful, tenuous gratitude.

We the Wild Men

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There's a whole pack of us, men minted from hot brass and thumbtacks. Too tough for sensibility's sake.

A Journey (on Foot) Through Hostile Lands

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Love comes and goes as it pleases. Plant lives matter you know. Isn't it so obvious? I'm sure you've noticed or felt like you've been here before. Maybe forever. Just ask any hand-held camera or open book. Well. How many times can we…

Epigenetics

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Wanted: Woman with wit, repartee skills, education and looks. Conversation, verbal dualing and ??? Respond to Seeker.

Unreality Television

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I was told, take him round the back and deal with him.

The Man Inside

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...her facial twitches, gasps and whines, her moments of trapped silence.

They Don't Get to Say Everything

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The world hasn't ended. Your part in it is still ongoing. The going on world hasn't winked out. Every possibility is still out there. In there, out there, it doesn't matter where you are. The here and now claims you for its only tribe. They only want someone to tell them…

Things That Are Sad

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Things that are sad.

Here is a game...

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I give you three words dripping wet with whatever and you take them, harbor them...

Beginning Amy Clampitt

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The walks along the beach/ render brave, meticulous, taxonomies

A Whole

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You sawed off my wings then Asked

Still Photographs

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one will become a tobacco king; another will steal copper plumbing on moonlessnights.

From The Files Of Mitt Romney, Bounty Hunter: Genesis

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Mitt looked at his one-time running mate and took a deep breath. He was beginning to think that throwing all of his money and belongings into the ocean and eloping to Key West with Paul Ryan was a bad idea. Paul had turned out to be more needy than a danc

Edward Ogle the Fifth

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Roaming beetles knitting needles chopstick counter attack.

The Watcher

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the dark brown cloaked warden stands on his lofty perch

Violent Limb Part 1

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Before the new arm, I used to sit outside the players' facility and wonder, in between the throbs of pain pulsing sickly through my temples, how much longer I could be a hockey player.

2 Haiku

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We’re heading to a Poetry reading when my wife Says “You owe me one” Coming back from the Poetry reading, my wife says “You owe me, big time”

Man

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There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.

Intentional Households

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Bradley turns out to be a walking red flag. He approaches as I unload the U-Haul and says, "Hi, I'm Bradley. I'm not very modest so you might see me from time to time in various stages of undress." Bradley is the last man on Earth I wish to see undressed.

Moment to Moment

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The memory fades so quickly, It makes me wonder if it ever really happened? Then I have to create something new from scratch to fill the space Yeah, there are patterns, and sudden movements that pass for recollections, but couldn't they as…

77 Words About Nothing [5-24-2012]

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Alright is alright but alright is a state of mind, right?

The Sadness of Being On Line and (Bonus Extra!) The Driver

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He had to get over the short bridge

The Big LARP

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The ambient sound wheezes on.

Shiver, 43

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, that smiley lush would shake rattle and quiver the day long no matter the temperature.

All About You

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Sometimes you want to strike out at me. What is stopping you? There is no stopping you. You know I will not retaliate. Gone is all that I will be to you then.

Agora

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Sometimes I think our gathering is a ritual centered on collective visualization. Other times I feel like I have been physically transported. I am not sure there is a difference.

Extract from my Fantasy book

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Lucien ran through a burning vortex in desperation ignoring the cries of his friend. It was a flux of Satanic majesty. The floodlight of the fire was incredibly grim, but it did not hurt his eyes. Have you ever seen painted glass windows in a cathedral built by the…

Bird's Eye View

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seven birds on the wire turn in unison to the right

Writing Prompts

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If you want to be a writer, just write stuff.