Monthly Archives: April 2024

The Great Communicators

You look like you’re trying to have something to say something important to say when in fact, you’ve really got nothing to say nothing important to say you know what I’m saying? You seem like you’re struggling to speak like … Continue reading

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The Champions

Now that we have all won, we can discuss what went into our great victory today. I don’t think it is any great secret: our achievement came from cheating. Just stealing points wherever we could, using iron bats while our … Continue reading

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Once Two

Tonight, I celebrate us and our lack of it. We were two once, a united pair. Now we are no more and I am again free to celebrate my solitude. I thank you for that. I thank you for the … Continue reading

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Deserved Disappointments

By the time she had left she’d already been gone a while. Without really thinking about it, I’d kind of mourned her already. She had just stopped talking to me. After I had funded her move to New York, she … Continue reading

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Cleanliness

The state of the apartment is a sight to see – but not for delicate people. Not for people of modern sensibilities, I should say. People of order, people who like their wildness tamed, who are frightened by piles uncomfortable … Continue reading

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Prognosticating with Preteens

And then there’s the time that the little girl I looked after asked if I’d seen that girl Scarlett that I liked. I told her, “No. I don’t think Scarlett likes me, really,” and the girl seemed to pout a … Continue reading

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An Important Lesson

“There may come a time,” The Philosopher said, “When you will find something vitally important to you, and you will not be able to keep it. “It may be that you cannot afford it or it does not wish to … Continue reading

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No Justice, No

I saw a man on the street with his hand out so I reached into my pocket for a dollar to give and pulled out a five. I quickly looked for a single to replace it and saw another five, … Continue reading

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Goodbye to All That

When we said goodbye in Florida, I really thought we were saying “Goodbye.” That was the plan for the trip, after all. One visit to this lousy state, to visit our old friend Murray. We had no idea how long … Continue reading

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Tragic

Is it a tragic flaw if I don’t back up my poetry? If I expect civilization to collapse and the electrical aspect of civilization to come apart, then isn’t saving my material on a hard drive just a waste of … Continue reading

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