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  • My walk is a lot like your walk

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    Gray bag full of empty keylight cans crumpled lotto ticket garbage sweating inside yellow plastic Sausage McMuffin paper cigarette butts – always cigarette butts Aspirin wrapper bird’s wing, torn off, feathers plucked, red knobby bone leaves caught in chain link sparrows flitting, fighting on the roof of a stopped car An old man, stooped on…

  • This sucks

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    My therapist said to write about other things too. She must not be a poet, but I see what she means. The healthy vs digging nature of obsession. How can I not write about something I think about every day most of the day? That’s probably not healthy either. I’m at work right now under…

  • Pretending your a cat day

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    Today, we start the night shifts at work. They’ve been shuffling people around to other community papers and decided not to rehire the positions where there are holes – ununionized us – we get to fill the holes on top of our normal jobs without extra pay. I’d say the jobs the designers are filling…

  • Happy 13th!

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    I like Friday the 13th – it’s the date Pat and I started dating and nothing bad has ever happened to me on Friday the 13th. Do whatever you want, stop making scaredy-cat excuses. Today, definitely sky dive.

  • Three years ago today…

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    … a little person pointed at me on a dance floor and said “I want that one.” Nothing has ever been the same since. And now my most amazing friend Miss Jones is as free as a Texas tumbleweed – watch out for the barbed-wire fences at high speeds, dearest.

  • Sidewalk treasures

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    I found some interesting treasures this morning walking to work. 1. a post-it sized note next to the court house with the names: J. Lowe D. Wasilewski K. Ford B. Sandy R. Seymor M. Moore S. Wrubel and then an address of an apartment in Nanticoke, PA. I’d list their full names, but they might…

  • Peeling garlic is satisfying in every way

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    Pat is becoming quite the baker – last weekend he made a blackberry cake that required a special pan that required him GOING TO THE STORE and today he made banana bread without nuts (he says nuts ruin things) I think nuts make a party, but I’m enjoying his new hobbies: brewing beer and baking…

  • Looped

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    I ate too much queso from the jar, contemplating my life lately. Came to no conclusions other than an empty sort of drone sensation. It’s been a month since I lost a friend and I’m trying to run around all the scenarios, wondering how one gets over such a thing. I thought I saw her…

  • Who in the world

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    “i wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’” – Lewis Carroll

  • Keep dreaming

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    I admit it, I got my ticket. More accurately I got a co-worker to get me two tickets. $1 each. Big spender, I know, but why not? Every one is talking about this. A co-worker said his girlfriend in Japan called him last night telling him to buy. I heard a girl on the news…