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voluntary rejuvenation
there’s nothing wrong with me as i hit the snooze button for the third time stare at the cobweb on the ceiling fan wondering where the spider is. outside i hear mickey’s silverado start up and head...
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When November Comes
It doesn’t matter what day it is and no one seems to care which way the wind blows. The only thing that seems to matter is November will arrive without fanfare, and now everything can get on with...
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maybe tomorrow
everything around me was ugly including the paintings on the walls the very walls that keep moving in one ugly inch every hour the newspaper scrawled out on the table reeked of ugliness delivered by...
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the mind reader
I lost my way along the way and wound up in a tavern I never knew existed I ordered a dark beer and sat alone wondering how it was I had found this place there were so many things I meant to get done...
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sing of sunshine where there is sorrow
there is no sense in revisiting all the bad things that may or may not have happened instead think of the things yet to come like the seeds of dahlia planted in your mind create and smile and live the...
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happy hour
I felt like stepping out but didn’t want to drink alone so I texted Tommy to give me a call but my phone lay silent goddamn son-of-a-bitch I powered up my new HDTV but nothing was on so I turned it...
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sometimes I see her
there is this beauty inside you existing secretly behind the artificiality of your everyday routine this beauty inside you speaks to me in my living dreams allows me to understand it’s smothered...
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lonesome is the night
out of the blue melancholy wrapped her arms around me and held me close whispering sad songs and wiping away the tears that formed from the corners of my mind she slowly swayed me encouraging me to...
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no going back
there is no going back I think to myself sitting alone and staring out the bay window as if I was under house arrest outside it is very white and very cold and I would do anything to see someone walk...
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nine of spades
he shuffled the deck as quickly as he talked telling stories about kings and queens and barbers in the castle something about the three jacks hanging out at the fire station playing checkers with...
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artificial visitations
sadness used to show up unannounced and we’d sit up until sunrise drinking whatever was left in the house I kept telling myself the next time he appeared out of nowhere I wouldn’t let him in but of...
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I wasn’t too worried about tomorrow
I had all this money stashed away and I didn’t want anyone to know about it It kept me up at night thinking about how many different ways it could make me happy but I really didn’t want to disturb it...
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beaten but not defeated
though he was broken he was not defeated refused to contemplate ending it especially when knowing one day things will be different that very day when the sky will open like never before and the...
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it’s sometime in August and it’s rained for days
alone I sit in the sunroom wondering when in the world I’ll see the light of day or mow the yard or ride my bike or snap photograph after photograph in the once colorful garden in the meantime...
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like a canary in a cage
anyone can write the monday blues how the fog maybe lifts by noon smartphones unable to upgrade all on their own the list grows longer whether it’s monday or not liberty or death is (a matter of) life...
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it’s no wonder people are suffering from a great depression it has little to do with the state of the economy and more with the states of minds instant gratification has gone by the wayside replaced...
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as if a little color could lift me up off of this velcro-lined davenport strategically placed in the southern-facing windows of the dining room nobody dares enter this the shrine I’ve built over...
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suppressing your expressions exactly beginning when I can only fathom most likely building walls long before anyone’s best guess perhaps the only way to get inside is from above where there is no roof...
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