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Stripped
See where the sun rises,where rays sneak through bamboo branches and reveal the royal Avila,where your guardian angel was bornand flew away before you got to meet him. Walk into your home,where your father and mother,where your sister and brother,drown in the numbness of a dinner tablewith no conversation.Go up your stairs,smell the acrid humidity…
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Air Bubble
“Please roll up your shirt Mr…..Lange?” The doctor glanced at her clipboard for confirmation. As he rolled his sleeve, a sea of violent, racist imagery slapped her eyes. She recoiled but continued shakily. “Ok Mr. Lange, you’ll feel a pinch.” The inmate’s metal teeth smirked at her. His neck tattoos danced. “Clearly you don’t follow…
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“Anne Hathaway’s House”
How many times did shutters open to your step upon this path? Did you walk or count your horse’s gait composing as you rode to Anne Hathaway’s house? Was it the sun that smiled upon your pilgrimage hastening you on your way? Or did the moon light the road that wound to Anne Hathaway’s house?…
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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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Cookie Monster
One of my first teaching assignments was in a middle school on the east side of Milwaukee, a place known to its natives as a bastion of quaint and kitschy restaurants and shops. To this day, some of my favorite places to visit and imbibe sundry types of brewed drinks are in that part of…
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Reading and Decoding English
Reading and Decoding English 7 Letter 2.2 Self-Educated 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 Hou wood such a frend repair…
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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…
