Month: April 2011
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There's a chance
I’m feeling anxious for having no where to be right now. Which should be a wonderful thing, really and I have somewhere to be later because around here without our families, someone always takes pity on us and invites us to their family gatherings because we are orphans and pat and I haven’t lived together…
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Happy Easter
This may be one of the most lovely, warm, beautiful late-mornings I’ve felt since last spring. I’m in a t-shirt! Outside! with my legs shadowed with slits of sun. Yogurt with berries and granola, espresso soaking in the warm water of my French Press. I’m waiting to press. I planted small strawberries in a blue…
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With pulp
Work dreams are uncommon for me and unpleasant and when I have them i feel as if I’ve been working all night. Something was wrong with the press. I had 20 pages to do and it was deadline already. People were breathing down my neck and the cover, that I had already proofed and sent,…
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Stationary at Midnight
From the backseat of my car you dip a cigarette into the night’s deep pool the ripples of ash fall away like whispers of rain or skin – the way people tiptoe into dust in the corners of their smooth floors. Someday we’ll all leave each other and I’ll never know what your eyes are…
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Runaway
I watched a red shopping cart gallop across the parking lot. The wind with its fierce pushing tails. It veered head on into pat’s car – I almost got out to stop it, but then it veered left and missed. Diagonally through the rows of spaces, the wet pavement, the lines we all follow, I…
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Eat only from the bowl
Well I made it until 2. And now Tula and I are sharing a bowl of popcorn in bed except she keeps licking the kernels and leaving them, so I gave her a pile which she’ll leave anyway, which I’ll have to clean up. It’s raining. It’s been raining. I don’t know if popcorn and…
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white noise
Today my head is slightly removed from my body. My coffee is too strong with usually is a good thing, but today it leaves too much acidity on my tongue. I hear noises, telephones, buzzing and some of them seem so close and piercing and some seem really far away. But the telephones are far…