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All the Symptoms
ALL THE SYMPTOMS The headaches are going away. The sleeplessness? It’s wearing off. All the symptoms: the lack of appetite the shortness of breath the incessant sighing are each diminishing – slowly yet steadily. New patterns are dying and old … Continue reading
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Retro
RETRO That poem I wrote you last month about how your eyes were pools of heaven? Scratch that. Forget it was ever written. I meant something else entirely. I rewrote the poem and now your eyes are described as caverns … Continue reading
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Life as we Know It
LIFE AS WE KNOW IT I suspect that I may never sleep again. The howls of suffering the screams for relief throughout the night leave me little hope for the future. I beg my wife to quiet down, fearing it … Continue reading
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Simply Heads
SIMPLY HEADS In the dream I was climbing to heaven not flying nor rising but something more prosaic and quicker. While everyone around me was slowly willfully levitating their way to the next level I simply took the next step … Continue reading
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Become Their Fate
BECOME THEIR FATE When you run out of ideas when you shut down when you realize you’re not original not saying anything a thousand others haven’t beaten you to – and better will you please shut up? Will you cease … Continue reading
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Sha Na Na and Nelson
SHA NA NA AND NELSON The radio station I listen to plays nothing but oldies and I play nothing but that station because I like my sounds to have a sense of history. I like to listen to the past … Continue reading
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Open-Ended
OPEN-ENDED She never showed the sketches she made of me. “They’re private,” she said. “They’re me,” I replied but that didn’t get me anywhere. She just drew me day after day after inviting me up initially to see her “etchings.” … Continue reading
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Soluble
SOLUBLE Something’s in the water. Nothing’s in the budget. Feet flying, doves crying, princes of mini-cities dying, it’s all falling apart. Something has to be done but I have a plan. We shall overcome these end times if you only … Continue reading
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“No”
“NO” When you asked to borrow my computer, even though I hadn’t used it in months, I said “No,” because I couldn’t admit that I wouldn’t be writing anything with it. I refused to accept that my writer’s block had … Continue reading
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Sick With
SICK WITH Remember what you said you’d accomplish by thirty? I don’t. I can’t recall all I expected to have done by now. I never thought it would be so hard or I’d get this soft. I am slow. I … Continue reading
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