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When I told you that I loved you that you meant everything to me, when I said I could never leave you I spoke true with every fiber of my being at the time. I’ve changed. You have too and … Continue reading →

A man with ragged bags and the smell of stale urine – somehow worse than fresh urine – began talking in my general direction. He may have been speaking to me but I neglected to dislodge my headphones so heard … Continue reading →

Well, you did it this time, didn’t you? Your suspicions and theories of conspiracies and ridiculous ideologies, they left us in this situation and there doesn’t seem to be any way out. Why couldn’t you trust? Where was your potential … Continue reading →

Dammit, the author has got to make up her mind. In Stanza 203 she writes "I do not believe what Stan says for Stan is one letter away from the Great Deceiver," but just a few pages before, Stanza 187 … Continue reading →

Elvis Presley performed wearing a chai necklace in the last days of his life. Now he is dead and that necklace has gotta be worth a crapload. God works in strange ways for Jews and other people. Someday I hope … Continue reading →

Charlotte Rae is ninety today. She’s the kind of star that won’t go away. If you see her on the street, go say "Hey," and if you’re of that sort, feel free to pray. From Different Strokes, upon this plane … Continue reading →

For years my father asked me to lead Seder services so that I could become more Jewy and he could get a break. He had me design the Passover prayer books the script we would use and I employed some … Continue reading →

Worship the earth. Treasure the land on which you stand. Become one with the natural world all around you if only in the parks where nature is allowed to roam, caged. Respect the creatures and the plants and the moss … Continue reading →

Thank you for providing me grist for my mill. Thank you very much for inspiring my next poem. You inspire me in many ways on many days. Some of them are good and some decidedly less so. Sometimes you get … Continue reading →

This? This is not what I ordered. This thing? I don’t want it. I chose something else entirely when the options were before me. I selected something to my liking that fit my tastes. I picked something suitable and this … Continue reading →