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finding the river
Yesterday I was outside myself watching at water’s edge,wanting to know dark knotted wood, snarled heartof split oak, a pliable tangle of maple and birch bleachedon the bank—set free by nature’s rage. My eyes grippedthe storm. Something mystical happens in a turbulent river—rush of sediment over rocks, driftwood pieces rippedfrom resting places collide, tumble end…
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Underdog Author VS. Amazon
Perhaps Amazon should have thought twice before trying to bully this particular underdog author considering how my debut BELL HAMMERS features my grandpas taking on multiple mega corporations. They used large scale pranks and practical jokes. Perhaps Amazon should have read how Bloody Williamson responded to the Southern Illinois Coal Company’s attempt to break the…
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Womb to Tomb Care — aka WTC
For the first time in history, not as presented before, I offer to all Americans Womb to Tomb Care. This is a brand new product where everyone can get everything they have always wanted in the very way they have always wanted it. WTC is the very innovative product that seems too good to be…
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spring is my love
Todaya ballad of light!A soft breeze brushes and blowsmemories erased of a dark winter. I have been homesick forspring andtrees.Homesick for song and lush leaves;cavernous and yearning to be filled entirely. A jubilee of flowers, stalks reaching to downy clouds and satisfied stretchBuds grasping through cool soilreaching for light and familiar hold. How long…
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Reading and Decoding English
Reading and Decoding English 10 Letter 2.5 Dreadfully Severe If you know people who have Dyslexia, help them learn to read starting with this column. It takes patiences to teach them the individual sounds. This is an excerpt from Title: Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley He iz so; but…
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The Worst Gut Instinct Ever
There was a timein the not so distant past,where I didn’t much bother withwhether or notthe bubble was centered.I figured if it looked level,it must be level.I had convinced myselfthat I could cleave myselffrom the sins of the world by sight,or by sound, or by avoidance.I had convinced myself that I wasthe only arbiter and…
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a plea
I plead my immense fatigue to subdueMe like the dragon beseeching Saint GeorgeTo grow from his fertilized, defeated body a kingdom on the banksOf the Lethe River and graceful oblivion models will trot beside itAdorning a wreath of witless smiles. Translated from Hebrew by Natalie Feinstein
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beyond is this that
Is this that? Who is wrong? This guy or his family? Is this that? The paradigm is all wrong. This isn’t that. This is valuable and about to be made right. This is for more. For new starts and fresh hope. For a new way of being, of thinking, of seeing. This is beyond. Beyond…
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i live near the beach
A whale washed up on the beach and I watchedfamilies take their kids to see it thrashin the shallows In the shallowsI saw a child, unaided and off-courseWith families and kids to watch it thrash This is a spectacleTo see a whaleTo see a childTo see this pessimal Sea You calf : an educatorA province…
