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It’s not that he said we should never talk about it but we never talked about it. I don’t think I ever caught scent of it in any of his later work – he stopped sending me stuff soon afterward. … Continue reading →

Oh, damn. I was just about to have the feeling that’s like the opposite of deja vu, where you anticipate a future you know you’ll never have – but then the feeling never happened. I wonder if it’ll actually materialize?

If you get to the point quickly we won’t have to bat the subject around forever. If I reiterate, I may have to re-hit-with hate and nobody wants that to happen, right? Right?

The latest Billy Collins collection of poems that I have access to is great (BC works tend to be) but all the work is incredibly short. I’ve got nothing against that. I’m happy to read one and be done and … Continue reading →

There’s a test I run every now and again when I’m in my bed alone, in the dark. I whisper, quietly, "I can hear you," to see if anyone is ever there listening. No one has responded to me yet.

On the ten-year anniversary of an EP I never uncovered, to hear you again is a fine thing. I didn’t know you were back in the game but to see that you never stopped, oh, that is so good to … Continue reading →

The imperfect circle etched on her wrist does not represent her as well as she thinks.

I arrived late to the place I always go to on Monday nights. I felt guilty because they kind of expect me. I’m something of a big deal around the place. I only got there an hour late and I … Continue reading →

That guy? With the Leap Day birthday? He’s twenty six as of the end of last month but he looks a lot older since his birthday doesn’t come around too often. Maybe we should have gotten him a bigger present; … Continue reading →

What I said about you, Spanakopita Pete, back when you weren’t listening because you were not in the state, was not cool. I was wrong to speak that way in your very distant absence and I apologize. I should have … Continue reading →