Month: March 2011
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I used to care, but now I have pills for that
Pat made eggs for breakfast and the steam sucks to my glasses. It’s raining this morning and the cars drive over it with such haste. I’ve been watching an orange porch light all morning. A false moon in the dark vellum air. But when I looked away for an instant and then back it’s gone.…
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Letter squares
I found two pieces of a discarded, ripped letter on the ground by the post office. I picked it up, unfolded the lined square, the face – exposed to weather – had yellowed and all I could make our were words, parts of words. I wonder who this person was writing to, why they ripped…
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Spring?
The sun is out today. Friday the forecast is 65. OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD! Walking to work was cold, but it was Spring cold, not winter cold. Cold with the hope of warmth. Cold with the birds out. Cold with frost on the grass that melts in the sun. Cold that will burn off, shake off, LEAVE!
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Night Mare
What a Night Mare as if this dark horse threw a shoe “Fuck it,” she said I like sneaking Pretty soon religion will be free and then what will we believe in? God’s war accept he never signed the check and left the waitress with the bill Do people still get Tweety Bird tattoos? a…
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Happy Birthday, Mom
Mary Oliver kept me up last night. I kept seeing her words, not her actual words, but the shapes of her words, in and out of dreams. The cat by my feet, by my legs, by my knees. Not awake enough to rise into the world, but not able to sleep. My body aches when…
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Litter
My Grandpa wrote to me – one of my gift letters and I’ve kept every one knowing that someday I’ll have to reread the things he’s said. But he wrote to me, “There is absolutely nothing I need from anyone anymore. So much of my energy is this life of mine; for so many years…
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The day I was saved by a cowboy … and Walmart
The other morning, driving to work, I saw 5 men helping one woman in a red car. It broke down in a puddle and she was laughing, but looked worried. Since when does it take 5 guys to push a car out of a puddle? Usually you just need one. But she was pretty enough…
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Down the drain
Do you think SHE’s trying to tell us something? Do you think people will actually start to listen? That giant whirlpool makes us look like toys. That boat spinning around and around – I kept imagining some large hand would pick it out of the water, set it on the bathroom counter, in a cabinet.…
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ha.ha.
The snow was gone again. All that was left was a tiny tiny patch in the back yard under the trees that never gets sun. It was the size of a football. And then it rained all day yesterday and I though – This will make it so green, the plants need rain – and…