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The flashbacks are very rare really just quick snaps of images gone before I can think of them fully, and they’ve faded greatly over time. Still, I haven’t completely forgotten the partial day I worked at a Special Education Day … Continue reading →

The amount of food services work I have done amounts to almost zero but I’ve spent a couple hours here and there working as a dishwasher. My friend Ruthie worked at the dining commons at school and when I finished … Continue reading →

I let the dogs off the leash so they could run as fast as they wanted while I biked alongside them in my industrial neighborhood. If I did it early in the morning or late at night there wouldn’t be … Continue reading →

Just because the gauntlet is thrown doesn’t mean you have to rise to the bait. Just because you have been dared doesn’t mean you have to accept it. Just because there’s been a challenge you don’t have to take it. … Continue reading →

I think when I accomplished my greatest poetical feat (I wrote over 465 different pieces in April, 2009 {don’t ask me how many of them were any good}), I was in the process of trying to attempt to impress a … Continue reading →

You’re looking down. Know I’m around and that I’m here. If you’ve got troubles I’ll be with you, never fear, Is something wrong? If there’s a problem, I can help. I’ll be supportive and not treat you like a whelp. … Continue reading →

Today I checked out the estate. It is large, as expected. It is strange, as expected. There was a staff, as one would anticipate on a property of size. There were the unsurprising freeloaders both in the house and surrounding … Continue reading →

You wait on the line and you wonder who you have become. You never used to wait on lines. You were beyond such things yet now here you are standing here like a fucking drone. These new flavors had better … Continue reading →

When were you last in a place like this: a gigantic, rocking, aching, smelly construction trawling across the water? Has it been a year? Has it been ten? Good gods, has it been ten? You think you might not have … Continue reading →

I remember it like it was thirty years ago: I was at UCLA for the summer and Big Daddy was playing at a music store but one of my cohort needed a ride to the airport. No problem. I could … Continue reading →