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Anything that doesn’t kill you can make you stronger. Anything that doesn’t make you strong probably makes you ill. Anything that can kill you should no doubt result in entering into cryogenic freeze. The cold will kill the ill within … Continue reading →

There are things of which we never speak like that weekend in Bellmore or how I’m scared of the Mets. We keep the sounds of those subjects silent if only to maintain equanimity between us. There are things of which … Continue reading →

Well Frank Sinatra is dead again just eighteen years after it happened the last time. In the Jewish faith eighteen is chai which symbolizes life which is either an ironic distance between deaths or specifically appropriate. Frank Sinatra wasn’t Jewish … Continue reading →

There are times well after midnight but well before dawn when I wake and wander past walls wondering. I think of you of course and about a high school sophomore I knew thirty years ago. I think about dance steps … Continue reading →

If I’d known you were suicidal I’d have tried to stop you or help you or talk to you about it or keep an eye on you to make sure everything was all right. If I’d known you were suicidal … Continue reading →

You told me that you were seeking a man brave as lion fast as cheetah strong as moose wise as owl and then wondered if I was that man. I was not as you later learned. I was instead wise … Continue reading →

She is used to being watched, to being studied. She has spent the years since first bloom knowing that men stare are aware of her yearning to pick her up, to pluck her exactly how they wish. She is used … Continue reading →

I just want to go back to sleep. I just want to unremember this day. I just want to crawl into my own stomach stuffed with so much crap for so very long and feel the comfort of complete coverage. … Continue reading →

Andrea desires change. Andrea is determined to find it. Andrea decides her fate day by day hour by hour. Second after existential instant Andrea dreams of a better future. Andrea, drunk, dredges memories of a past drenched with great pleasures. … Continue reading →

You know when I asked you to meet me at three I kind of expected to see you at four but now that it’s five thirty I’m just really glad you made the time to come out at all. Thanks … Continue reading →