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Monthly Archives: March 2024
The Andes
There is a helplessness you feel when the world will not follow your perfect plans to the letter. It is a frustration so sublime since you know the mountains you could move if they would just shut their mouths and … Continue reading
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Valediction
There are things I used to do earlier in life that seemed to have passed me by. I no longer play with the action figures I built out of wire and tape. I can’t seem to find them around anymore. … Continue reading
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For Balance
This is a balancing poem to adjust your expectations after the last one which may have been too great with exaltation or two unimpressive (for who knows how this will be placed in its folio?). Let these words settle you … Continue reading
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Trail of Tears
Social media was talking about something but nobody could source it so I didn’t accept the news. I don’t need to follow the source through, I just need to know that it’s there. So many of my friends were just … Continue reading
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Sunny Side of the Street
The parking around here has gotten better ever since the apocalypse. Granted, there are still some husks of abandoned vehicles around, but more and more of them have been crushed and burnt by tanks and riots lately so spaces have … Continue reading
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Heart Franks
Somewhere on the Upper West Side near seventy second street ought to be scrawled every- and anywhere the phrase We Heart Franks in honor of the long-standing Gray’s Papaya, which, despite the name, sells primarily hot dogs. It does sell … Continue reading
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Hearts Frank
Somewhere on the Upper West Side scrawled into the sidewalk is a heart with the name Frank next to it. There is no clear author. Perhaps the writer did not want to be outed for fear of the repercussions of … Continue reading
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The Unassuming Humility of Mister B
There is a right and just way to do things and I try to follow it. What gets problematic is when I try to… encourage others to follow the right and just way, as well. For the most part, I’ve … Continue reading
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and Still…
The days get longer the days get shorter. Time trudges ever further away from our days and I worry that I’ll never see you again and that this might not worry you at all. If I knew it caused you … Continue reading
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Cancellation Notice
Got an email the other day that service had been cancelled but there was no mention of what the service was. Just shrugged it off as spam. This morning, though, after waking up, getting out of bed and housing a … Continue reading
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