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Poetry

9/12/2010

September 14, 2010

Naked before me, she bore her soul upon a string And handed it to me, requesting innocently that I carry it and care for it for all time. “But it’s a string,” I said. Won’t it break? “Don’t worry,” she said.  ”It’s enchanted.” And I believed her.

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A Pleasant Fiction

July 30, 2010

The old Jeep pulls to a stop at the end of our driveway, lets us out by our own faded Jeep and pulls a youie, Bill’s gnarled hand waving goodbye to us from where the window would be.  At the same time, Jen and I take a deep breath and smile broadly as we exhale.  [...]

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The Men Who Don’t Fit In

July 7, 2010

Scraped from here, but discovered at WinterWarlock‘s facebook page: The Men Who Don’t Fit In by Robert W. Service There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,  A race that can’t stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin,  And they roam the world at will. They range the field and [...]

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1,479 Words

May 9, 2010

I don’t really know that I have all that much to say.  I mean, I have plenty to say, but not anything in particular that I’d like to talk about right now.  All weekend long I’ve had threads run through my head that would make nice blog posts:  interesting things I could tease out into [...]

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On Truisms & Beatitudes

November 3, 2009

There’s a saying that goes: “Pray to god, but for f*ck’s sake, row away from the rocks!” As you know, dear reader, I’m something of an unwilling agnostic.  I pray – and it works – but I have no idea to what I’m praying.  I don’t have that fundamental concept of a higher power that [...]

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Yay Baltimore

August 15, 2009

I’m going to make this quick.  I’m sitting outside of a closed coffee shop in a semi-seedy part of Baltimore, about 6 blocks from my hotel.  Yay free wi-fi. The O’s won tonight, Pie (pronounced pee-YAY) hit for the cycle (single, double, triple, home run).  It was a pretty good game.  This is the third [...]

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Weekly Writing Assignment #1: Random Words

July 22, 2009

The old Californian reached down to adjust the fetters binding his ankles shuffle-length apart, no longer wishing for the strength to break them.  Hocking phlegm from the back of his throat he spat on the dusty California ground, in the direction of the bravado of his youth, chained to him three men up the line.  [...]

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Lament for Lost Motivation

July 6, 2009

Motivation! O motivation, where hast thou gone?  Why hast thou left me, and when shall I find thee again? Where, o where shall I look to find thee? Canst thou be in my books? In my stacks and stacks of unread books? In my reams of notes? In my piles and piles of unstarted or unfinished projects? Shall I search [...]

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Not an Haiku

May 19, 2009

19 April 2009: Today I got to watch a tiny stream grow up into a large brook as I walked beside it down the mountain.

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A Love Poem

April 1, 2009

9 March 1998 You bring me clarity. When the world seems muddled and everything runs together in one pessimistic grey dusty thick soup, a word from you is enough to bring it all back into focus. As I write these words, by candle-light, no less, I feel you slip under this rough exterior I try [...]

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