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Opportunities Unlimited

OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED The lessons of youth before school before peers when it’s just your family wishing you the best and telling you tales, those lessons are lies. You cannot be anything you want to be. There are not opportunities unlimited … Continue reading

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Tales

TALES I worry that some of the information I grew up with may well be faulty. My face never froze in any particular shape – maybe I’m malleable; but I think mama lied. I’ve done tons of Google-research and seen … Continue reading

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“The Political Sitch”

“THE POLITICAL SITCH” Yes, I guess you’re right. I guess I have written a thousand poems about you many which I thought were about something else. That piece called “The Political Sitch” was clearly about the time you didn’t return … Continue reading

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Good and Gone

GOOD AND GONE Things were easier when I was a young girl in New Jersey. I was pretty then and people would listen to my opinions – if not really hearing them. They would give me things back then and … Continue reading

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One in a Thousand

ONE IN A THOUSAND I’d like to offer a one in a thousand opportunity a point oh one percent chance at happiness. It’s a number that’s hard to identify and a thing that you just may resist. I would like … Continue reading

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So Badly

SO BADLY I wish I had the chance to tell you how great you are how wondrous your music how eloquent your words. I want to sing your praises in person after you sing to crowds. I wish I could … Continue reading

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Their Silent Stories

THEIR SILENT STORIES Tis the season when the leaves underfoot so recently fallen speak to me their silent stories. They tell me tales of abandonment and loneliness and the genocide of the gardener with his apocalyptic rake and fire. They … Continue reading

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From Risk to Risk

FROM RISK TO RISK With the blood of emigrants in my veins hardy, heart-bound stock who crossed waters and worlds seeking stronger life, you would think I would be a stronger person more daring challenging customs ranging from risk to … Continue reading

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It Starts Somewhere

That first kiss was scary. The rain hadn’t stopped for hours so I was drying off at your place while your family was conveniently out for the day as we listened to music in your room with the door open. … Continue reading

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Unhealthy

UNHEALTHY How has this lasted? How did I get so sick for so many days? I can’t remember a time when I didn’t have this cold or these symptoms or a broken week of work. I am so far from … Continue reading

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