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A Short Poem About Heightened Senses
When one has a well-trained sense of time and always is aware of the beat of the day, it is usually quite easy to know when to make an appropriate getaway. Excellent exits are part of the skillset. You can … Continue reading
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A Short Poem About Largesse
Your presents are no longer appreciated.They only show the increasing gaps between us now that stretch every time you so generously gift me something so meaningless to you that might take me forever to earn. I will thank you to … Continue reading
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A Short Poem About Tallahassee
Haven’t heard much from you since your Floridian breakdown. I’m hoping you’re OK and you pick up after that last set of put downs and come on up here again. I hope those words were not the last I’ll ever … Continue reading
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A Short Poem About Small-Town Criminals
The population of prisoners in town has grown substantially now that the age requirement has been lowered dramatically. Since you need only be twelve to get thrown in for a crime the cops have been busy catching punks on a … Continue reading
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A Short Poem About Bigamy
I wish my wife on the East Side had not found that darling little place on West 73rd as it is three blocks away from my wife on the West Side and I have found no excuse not to move. … Continue reading
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A Short Poem About Longwood Avenue
For a week now I have been living away from home watching cats a borough below from where I belong. Things are strange in this temporary space. The cats are not used to me. The dimensions here are wrong. Soon … Continue reading
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A Short Poem About Pumpernickel
I have been trying to cut bread out of my diet. With pumpernickel, it’s easy since pumpernickel is crap.
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One More Try
Once, when writing something appreciated about bricks and blood, I wondered about repeat action but who wants to get stuck in a rut? What if, though… what about a piece about blood and bricks? Is that something new enough? We … Continue reading
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The Identity of Trees
In hindsight, the whole event could have been resolved with a search engine but even if they existed, I probably wouldn’t have had the skills to have mastered them. If there was an encyclopedia lying around, I wouldn’t have known … Continue reading
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Water Thick
Your father is not my father though I sometimes think of us as brothers. We are not and not only because of the above. You have a brother and you two do not seem very close these days. You have … Continue reading
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