Bye-Bye, Small Frye’s

I rescued them from a terrible fate. Who else was going to do it? The quarter was in my pocket anyway; what good is a quarter? I knew someone had loved them, once. Maybe someone would love them again. God knows, I already did, but we just weren’t a fit.
For a quarter, I was willing [...]

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Jess

Jess?
 
I found some pictures. Pictures of you.
Not the you I once knew. Gone now, the mass of black curls. Gone, the sharp cheekbones women whispered about, the slanted green eyes that pierced so much they frightened people. Gone now the tiny frame of muscle that had lifted me high and twirled with such frenzy as [...]

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Lies

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides

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Not Your Baby

I’m okay
I’ve never been helpless
I’m not the baby
Anymore
 
Don’t worry
I don’t need saved
I’ve made it this far
On my own
 
I’m all right
I never asked for
Not your baby
All alone
 
Don’t worry
I’m okay
I was your baby
Not anymore

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What About Us

What about me
Was I what you thought at all
Did I live up to your fantasy
Did I step up to the call
 
What about you
Are you done with me at last
Have I used up your imagining
Your dream of what is past
 
What about us
Have you really seen me yet
Aren’t I someone after all
You never really met
 
What about us
What [...]

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Creative Blogger Award 2009

Hey y’all.
I want to start with saying this will be my very first time writing an entry here that is addressed directly to whoever my readers happen to be [I know I know a few, but hey, I can’t see everything]. It will also be the very first time I will write in real-time pertaining [...]

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Mess of Dreams

I stumbled onto you
A picture, no less
In fact there were three
 
Grinning in one
Head thrown back
Softness apparent
New to me
 
Black shades the next
Guitar aimed
Like an arrow
At her heart
 
But the last
The soul heavy tired eyes
I remember these
Even now
 
So old
For so young
A man
 
The one thing I never got
When I wrote this
The lines etch now
Just like yours
And I wonder why
I [...]

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My Bat

I must confess
You give a chill
To flutter by my head
Your inky form
Causes a thrill
Of shudders in my bed
 
I will admit
You have a way
Of mesmerizing me
With jerky flight
I’m hypnotized
By something I can’t see
 
I can’t deny
I long to know
What calls you to my side
Your circled flight
Can only show
You find yourself yet shy

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Red Barn

The rafters have never been dusted. If you look up too much, imagining great strings of ancient cobweb-matter landing on your face starts to feel less imaginary and more inevitable.
The PA system causes migraines.
The seating is grab-yer-own cushion and plop down on risers. Someone always sits next to me eating a smelly hamburger that drips, and [...]

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Realizations and Reminders #3

Two things I learned today:
#1
If at any time in the course of your blogs’ life, you include a post with the words “boots” and “fetish” in the same piece, you will be haunted by weird and painful to ponder search terms for the duration of your blogs’  life, daily, with or without said words in title.
If [...]

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