Category: Entertainment
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Where the I sees nothing
I tried my best, perhaps too hard, to draw the eye inward and focus on the incremental eight steps that Patanjali claims will leave me awed and enlightened and in need of nothing else. Our model was the turbaned guru up front, beneath the ceiling fan, who Om-ed until hearts sank and curtains soared. The…
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Darker Light
In darker nights where all is silentSit lights far off in the distanceWhich flicker and grow ever brighterBut just as distant still- For in these darkened monthsAre even darker lightsWhich dot the scarcely un-clouded sky, But out in the snowy fieldsAnd from the thatched farm houseThe lights still sit quietly in the distance, Not humming…
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Wisconsin’s American Zoo (WAZoo) Invites you to pet the meese
1 Tuesday I get a call from Boss to come down to his temporary office at my earliest convenience. Which means immediately. Boss’s office is behind Meese Trecks. It’s called this because Boss says the plural of Moose is Meese. So that’s that. The two Meese are finicky and prone to violence. By finicky I…
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Dreaming of the Dead
Oh, how I’d hoped you’d have wisdom to impart when you strolled into that party unannounced and unexpected, but with all the swagger in the world. Instead, you only complemented my ball gown which was pink taffeta, for some reason. Instead, you simply laughed at the off-color joke my landlord, from that crumbling apartment three…
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Cadet Andrews
I heard my name called, and yet I didn’t answer. For if I did, I would only hasten that which I did not want to proceed. If I didn’t, damned if I do, damned if I don’t was the current colloquialism. The courtroom was as antiquated as I believed it would be. Old vids from…
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Impossible Peace
On far away stormy shoresSit people consumed by the simplicityOf their existence- Where beyond the need to surviveAnd love one another-There is little more than a core humanity, For in these people’s livesIs the cornerstone of the nirvanaSo endlessly depicted to us- Through the onslaught of mediaAnd through word of mouth-So lacking in sincerity For…
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Legal Tender
It now took a wheelbarrow or two of paper money to pay for a loaf of bread. Inflation? Excessive printing of currency? Witchcraft? The economists were still adjusting their equations, so no one had an answer. But all the pundits and bigwigs knew changes had to be made. Gold was no longer an option. Not…
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Distinguished from the Dead
“He smiled at his old boyhood choice, slow oxidation in the top of a tree”I’d like to believe the reason vulturesrefrain from picking out my brain onthe way to work has something to do withthe movement of my heart; that somehowthey’re smart enough to know it still runsor that they have x-Ray vision or something.I’d…
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No Some Anybody
Nobody reads about some Anybodybecause Nobodies write aboutSomebodies that Anybodies couldn’t be.Unless their intention is the opposite:that Anybody can be the Somebodiesbecause they’re Nobody in particular,either yet or forever.Just like you. I’m sorry,there’s not Somebody writing the history books;that’s the Nobodies. Somebodies are outfilling the history bookswith alcohol tonight.Anybody knows that.Nobodies show thatby staying in…
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Wawa (wa)
My guess is that someone recognizedhow I walked in wearing a redplastic-lettered school t-shirt and leftfrom the single stalled family bathroomin a gray button up and navy tie. The “Oh my gosh, Shelby” shouted by a teenage girlilluminated by juices and teasin the farthest refrigerated aisle from the bathroomwas undoubtedly a sign of my changeand…
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Warm Winter
Golden light and shadow ushers in fall. The world tilts, slows, swirls, flashes brightness like leaves falling—sky grows bluer as geese flocks call the news of their migration; water grieves their absence, grows dark and opaque, no lure for swimmers, no need for fence to fetter. It is the time to put forth new warm…
