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I felt/
no need to show what I had made/
to anybody else.
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...He steps back from the abyss,
inner eye envisioning the ink sip of a fountain pen,
the hard, hot brain frenzy that sends phrases marching
toward another bridge between oblivion and art.
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and watch the bird play and squirrel play/
and the twitching of cottontail noses
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My wife goes away for a few days to the little town where Hitchcock filmed The Birds.
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“...and many women were there beholding afar off” ...and, yes, I was with them. I speak…
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Rewarding the kindness of strangers.
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Your tunamelt cadence / Sank me to ocean floors
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You were sophisticated in a way I/
didn’t understand but coveted.
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"We all knew that the thirty-eight year old mother, with the house on the hill, was having an affair with Darren, a fifteen year old boy, but no one did anything about it. When he was sixteen the parents found out and were furious, but the police were ne
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affiliation: still not in a pagan death cult was just out on the thawing lawn lying belly down, too soon sucking spiked lemonade (not blood) up a twisty straw life is a string of unknown songsslow reveal, we fake our way along service: devour wayward stars …
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Things are still being said in a world that sounds rough like bows and straight slicing arrows communicating with (smashing fists) a pool of tired animals. There must also come a time to surprise those same cruel faces with metal…
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You want to read, you know where to click.
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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
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I flipped a large cardboard coin
On one side it said
Abundance
But on the other side it said
Scarcity
I went to the store
And began packing everything I could get
Into my shopping cart
But the things that started spilling over
Onto the
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Sometimes my poems escape. They crawl out through my Wi-Fi connection, I suspect.
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Pulling out your tax records scribbled with your handwriting,
Pulling out photos of your best friends,
Pulling out writings about my long-gone grandmother,
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I had the blues. I was feeling down the day the circus came to town. There was cash in my pocket and a bag of weed. I went to the circus with a desperate need to renew my faith in the good of mankind. Perhaps under the big top some laughs I’d find.
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We needed to get rid of her. That was the word from Mary, our new Director of Social Work. We shouldn't have hired someone with 18 years of experience for a job that could be filled by a new graduate. She was costing the hospital too much money, and the…
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Driving alone
again
across the U.S.
I thought back
on my first relationship.
As I sd to my
girlfriend, because I was
always talking, Lynda,
I sd, which was not
her name,
the darkness surrounds
us, what can we do
against it? Or
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past five years, you’ve certainly heard of Patricia Little and the chocolate chip cookies that saved thousands. Nevertheless, let’s start from the beginning.
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soon enough
the orphans will unsheathe
their pistols and the hash fields
will be emptied of sparrows
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