tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8271137363578952632024-03-05T12:42:11.836-08:00Mexican Radio"From the racks to the stacks to the best on wax......"Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-59261828515225574872021-05-19T08:36:00.002-07:002021-06-28T13:02:25.735-07:00She Wrote the Day<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I liked to play tea party<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">As soon as the laughter faded<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other boys diminished to mere pinpoints<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">That’s when she wrote the day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eight years, three months<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">She may have been the one that taught every boy the way, timeless</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her eyes were old world goddess, rapt, penetrating<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her innocence, not a day over her eight years<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">The universe, our tea party universe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">While still full of potential and possibility<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shrank, custom fit to the shape of our energy entwined<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">And we imagined, oh Lord, did we imagine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some days I barely remember the sequence of events<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Only that, in the end I was filled with the future<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Knowing, somehow, that she was the future<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">If not for me, then at least for the</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">universe</span></p>Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-52365002510906370362021-05-10T14:24:00.002-07:002021-05-10T14:31:15.220-07:00Sugar Baby<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span>“Come on, try me.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She looked up
from her phone, rolled her never ending eyes, and sighed a metric ton.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i>Only mouths
are we. Who sings the distant heart which safely exists in the center of all
things?</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Dylan?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You’re an idiot. You are never going to pass this class.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“One more, one more
please? I will let you have the rest of my Sugar Babieees.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She grabbed the
rest of the Sugar Babies, shook some into her mouth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i>Not in a box,
not with a fox.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Uhhhh…Whiiiitman?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She grabbed the
Sugar Babies, flipped me the bird and flew down the stairs to the living room.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I leaned back and stared out the window, glowing in the knowledge that she was my friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best </span><span>friend even, as long as there was a never-ending supply of
Sugar Babies.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;">For the Propmt "Prosery" at dVerse Poets Pub</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-89026183556168178502021-04-29T13:55:00.005-07:002021-04-29T14:15:08.109-07:00Can I See Your Room?<p> <span style="font-size: large;">I awoke this morning to see that my globe was the size of a marble. My dictionary was open to the page where the word foreign would be. The definition was cut out. I looked out my window and saw my old friend from Laos. She was no longer an emoji. I reached for her hand and for the first time, felt how small the world had become.</span></p>Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-14503484921523215062019-11-11T07:22:00.001-08:002019-11-11T08:06:05.896-08:00He/She or Gathering the World<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="color: white;">She saw the world in feathered edges, soft, undulating, grey where they needed to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She let the day wash over her slight frame, cleansing, smelling of honey lilac soap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">He held them rapt with numbers, theorem, history as bright and varied as a Pollock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She would roll them about her tongue and make loins tingle, every word a breath of mint<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">When night fell and the others withdrew there were whispers and thoughts of new beginnings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-15345935832678853772019-11-04T16:17:00.004-08:002019-11-04T16:24:56.917-08:00Sisters<div class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; padding: 0px;">
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<span 10="" background-color:="" background-position:="" background-repeat:="" color:="" initial="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 9pt;" trebuchet="" white=""> </span><span 10="" background-color:="" background-position:="" background-repeat:="" color:="" initial="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet="" white=""><span style="color: white;"> The handsome man sat between the two sisters at the bar. He was wiry, muscled like freighters usually were, all that lifting and moving. He drank a beer and listened to the sisters talk of pineapple candy and licorice whips, giggling and fingering their hair and necklaces without knowing they was doin' it. The sisters were named Trepidation and Sanguination. The handsome man, the wiry man, thought that those were right odd names for girls such as these, but then thought, what business was it of his to second guess the naming. It was a mother's right to name her children whatever she wanted and here he was smack sandwiched between the two, feelin' a bit like a rooster, struttin' and eyeing his spoils with a one eyed intensity, head cocked, senses sure and alert.<span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> "Ladies," he said tipping his glass and a jowly smile at the sisters.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> "What's the matter girls, cat got your tongue?"<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> "Can't ya tell when a real man is courtin' ya, or are you just some stuck up cunt's in need of a good roll?"<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> He slammed his glass back on the bar and ordered another.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> "Maybe they just know when the meat's done spoiled," the handsome man, the wiry man, said.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> The big man glared, his too red, too watery eyes fixed on the wiry man, the handsome man.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> "You making' to get at me," the big man said in a low, even voice.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> "No sir, I just reckon we want to be left to ourselves if it ain't so much to ya."<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> The big man walked toward the little group and stood towering above the handsome man, the wiry man. His stench wasn't so much real, like salt pork gone bad, but more like the smell of death and decay, the smell of trouble in a back alley dice game gone to fightin'.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> He reached and grabbed the wiry man, the handsome man, by the collar.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> "Bet you didn't think that today was the day you died, he said taking his other monstrous hand and now encircling both hands around the neck of the handsome man, the wiry man. He started to squeeze.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> "Hey," the shout came from the sister called Trepidation. The big man looked up for a split second just in time for him to see the flashing arc of the knife as Sanguination cut his throat, the blood gushing immediately in pulsing arcs on to the shirt and face of the wiry man, the handsome man.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> A honk came from outside the bar. The sisters threw two half dollars on the bar and grabbed the wiry man, the handsome man, by the arms and pulled him along out the front door.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span 10="" color:="" ms="" rgb="" sans-serif="" style="box-sizing: inherit;" trebuchet=""><span style="color: white;"> Pulled to front of the bar was a silver Lincoln. Behind the wheel sat another woman. She had yellow hair and sunglasses. The sisters pushed the handsome man, the wiry man, into the back seat and hurriedly got in, slamming the doors.<o:p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><i style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">I wrote this after seeing an actual wolf</span></span></i><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><i style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">I was searching for treasure in Alberta</span></span></i><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><i style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Like it’s the dragon’s lair, I beg to differ honey</span></span></i><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><i style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">But I did realize there are things scarier than you leaving me</span></span></i><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><i style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">And this song isn’t so much about anything </span></span></i><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “Where do you get your Song’s?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> "Really?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “What?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “That’s the sort of question a third grader might ask?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “I think your fan’s would like to know.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “Let me tell you something David……my fan’s don’t ask me stupid questions. All they really want is to hang out, be a part, get a little close, OK man.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “Sorry.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “Listen, if you really want to know where I get my songs then open your damned ears, I’m only gonna say this once. Count this down, David.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “It's Maggie’s dingy thong showing every time she sits down. It’s my grandmother blowing smoke rings with her pipe. It’s Eddie Vedder in the mother fucking rafters. It’s Dolly Parton and her shitty coat. It’s mom making heart for us kids because she’s making liver for dad and we hate liver. The only thing is David, heart is no damned consolation to a kid. It’s thinking about how cool it would be to walk on the moon. It’s smoking a cigarette after the show with Justin Furstenfeld. It’s shelling out your last hundred bucks to go see the Avett Brothers. Do you see what I’m saying David? It’s that stupid look on your face right now.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “OK.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: white; font-size: large;"> “Of course you don’t get what I’m saying David. You are not an actual wolf. All you got to do is sit down and fucking listen man…just listen.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><i style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">She wrote that after lying with an actual wolf</span></span></i><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
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Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-71185839737585142732019-06-19T11:32:00.003-07:002019-06-19T11:32:55.771-07:00On the Square<br />
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<span style="color: white;">Covington square was a place of social worship</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white;">People gathered there to integrate with the cityscape and each other</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Being a part of the anthill social structure, giving relevance, weaving reality<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dressing up a nowhere existence with paper doll clothes and drag queen wigs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />By the light of day, the square was measured, professional</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The place where folks would pretend to be important, irreplaceable<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />By the night, the same people came to spin, coalesce, slink, shine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There are things that soften in the dark, masks off, skin showing</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Twice during the down times, the square was off limits<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But the energy of a place does not dissipate, it builds</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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I chewed Fruit Stripe gum and bitched how the flavor faded too fast<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
We were afraid of spiders and the dark, but more of spiders<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
The dark was only terrifying because it made us burn like sparklers</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: small;">You grew into a beauty, too soft, too smart, too desired<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
I grew awkwardly, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>like a sunflower, head
too big, more weed than flower<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
We still said "hi" in the hallway, but your future was big screen, Technicolor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Mine faded like the stars in a New York City sky, destined for mediocrity<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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You were a beautiful young mother, long term plans shelved, hidden regret<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
I came out of the military strong, changed in ways that helped, harmed<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
We had no idea what the fates had in store but we still dreamed, moved forward<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Time moves with liquid speed, not missing the cracks or crevices, flowing silently<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
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You were standing at Grant and Green, your aura engaging, hair resplendent<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
I hadn’t seen you in twenty years, my god how the memories came flooding back<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
We sipped Cape Cods and talked about being afraid of spiders, but not the
darkness<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
The darkness was the only place we could find each other again, burning and
sparking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">On the upstroke, the tick was louder, until the second hand got
to the ten<br />
On the downstroke, the tock slid like a water snake in the damp grass, greasy<br />
It was this constant grinding and sliding that kept me from drowsing, dreaming<br />
At the bells I would jump a little and thank the fates that I was still alive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When you are awake with fevered thoughts of the day to come,
knowing your sun will collapse<br />
It is impossible to close your eyes, red, gritty eyes, giving your last gold
piece for a spoon<br />
You dare not speak out, or scream, the sound would surely cause internal damage<br />
And darkness is not as complete when you hear yourself bleating like a separated
mother goat</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The tick is a reminder of the sins that I committed
without a second thought of collateral damage<br />
The tock is a lovers hand caressing, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>telling
me to put in a good word when I meet the maker<br />
I tell you this, there is no clock, and there is no lover, only darkness and a mind
sick with despair<br />
The only antidote is the opening of a door and treacherous needles of light, skating
on ice too thin</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-91615536773055737022019-04-19T11:52:00.000-07:002019-04-19T13:31:34.837-07:00Rapture<span style="color: white;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "calibri";">Her breath caught and I thought it was irreverent, but sexy<br />
Shameful, shameful<br />
I should not look at things from the pinpoint of a pig’s eye<br />
Delirious sweats and needs, oh needs<br />
Heated, heated<br />
My desire out of control, does she know of my leaky valve<br />
Pumping, pumping</span>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "calibri";">He sat down and started writing, he knew, people, he saw,
people<br />
He wrote people like John Kennedy played a crowd, intuitively, passionately<br />
There was no method to it, it was natural and laced with dark reality<br />
The kind of reality tipped with truth and tragedy, all angles, all consuming<br />
Each person a complex maze of paradoxes based in desire and fear, hard to chew<br />
But when a thousand of his characters filled the pages, glistening like dew on
the dandelions<br />
The portrait painted was as solid as the keystone in a castles hearth, it was
breathtaking<br />The people were flowers and fireworks on the waning of a soft summer day, he knew people</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I woke on the morning of my birthday, hell bent, hair wet<br />
My task was to end the game, cut the cord, pay the final check<br />
And I would do it with words, your words, their words, sharp as a scalpel</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I sat at my desk and inked black, hell sent, jaw set<br />
The reds flowed and torturous yellows, sharp sword, slashing neck<br />
I was doing it with grace, your face, their face, nice and simple<br />
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When the end finally neared, hells rent, good bet<br />
My body so much pulp, say the word, no safety net<br />
I was letting all go, your command, their command, smiles so awful</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last you will hear from me…immortal</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your reach was telescopic that day, no matter how much I
retreated, you saw me<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Its like when you meet someone for the first time and your judgment is dead
wrong<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Thank the Gods that you had better sense than I did, that isn’t hard really<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
I have never been know for my practicality, only for chasing my summer dreams,
silly</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I relished those days on the couch where we watched funny shows and touched only our feet<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Life has a way of magnifying those delicacies, only after they are gone, sepia,
worn<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
I would give every roller coaster ride for those moments, the ones where we
flew<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Heavens how your hair looked and smelled after a shower, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>my libido etched forever in strawberry</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a telephone somewhere, the old rotary kind, it is
black with too big numbers<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
To this day I search for it , knowing that it is surely around the next corner
and then the next<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
When I find it, it will be a direct line to you and the days of mix tapes and
red wine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
And I will invite you to patio dance once more, your naked hips a forever
prize, eternity</span>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mostly, I stumble like a young Angus in a bed of mums. Hooves caked with dark, rich, soil, but not understanding anything with the
exception of the awkwardness that are my feet and that the sweet taste of the
grasses sprouting around the mums, satisfies for a short while. I picture
myself landing delicately, but try as I might, gravity doesn’t give way to the
desires of an aging boy restless for want of a decent sentence to pass on to
troubled souls.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>I settle to the carpet,
long since worn with the traffic of life and close my eyes in an attempt to
fuse the tag ends of my existence and create that circle that allows my progeny
to travel their track, to their destiny, hoping that they can land more
delicately. I see other destinations for them, shining and futuristic, their
happy faces raised to the light of a rapturous sun hand in hand, wanting each
other and embracing the coming of the comets tail. Upon reflection and in
parables that float thought the watery vastness of my closed eyes, the truth is
printed on the inside of my eyelids. They too will feel awkward, slogging
through the mud, surrounded by beauty and wondering if their offspring will
enjoy a lightness of being that will allow them to fly to the moon for a picnic
of wonder and wisdom. In my mind, I throw them the keys to my rocket ship and
tell them to be careful, the road to the moon has no speed limit and racing the
light often ends up being a losing bet.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-3777060983921311872019-01-16T08:18:00.005-08:002019-01-16T08:19:07.727-08:00Sister<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all saw you in our dreams last night, the effect was calming</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Taking the love and the light and giving it a three dimensional quality</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You said to walk the path lightly, but with confidence, I didn’t hesitate</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You touched the back of my head and saw the hope and created flow</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sister, where are your weary hands when the work is done</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Granting so much to so many and asking nothing in return</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sister, where are your thoughts after soothing my fears</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Showing the way when so many plant brambles at our feet</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We all saw you in the reflection of the water in the morn, the effect was wondrous</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Taking the tears and creating rivulets of love and light, satin</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You said to give my heart to the depths and live vertically but with reach</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You stared into my eyes and pulled out the deepest browns and translucent blues</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sister, you are the one who binds the now to the forever</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seeing the things that are but ghosts in the recesses of a diseased outlook</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sister, you are the one that ebbs and swirls, making words into wishes</span><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Walking unseen through the hearts and minds of the ones who want to love</span></i></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: white;"></span><br />Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-19341596830863056482018-11-20T09:09:00.001-08:002018-11-20T09:12:28.278-08:00Cooking Light<span style="color: black;"><i><br /></i>
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</span><i><span style="color: white;">A few years back I wrote the first couple of paragraphs for this story for a Toads prompt and never finished it. Well here is the finished version. Hope you are all doing well!!!</span></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: white;">Cooking Light</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"> “You are a spring dick.”</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"> “What the hell is that,”
William asked, emptying a second packet of Sweet-n-Low into his iced tea.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"> “A spring dick, my dear
old friend, is someone who can find fault, regardless of the fact that there is
a near perfect spring day upon him and he has nothing to do but spend time with
his best friend, soak up the sunshine and revel in the miracle of being alive.”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"> “Those day lilies on the
table smell like cat piss to me, I don’t know why you insist on bringing them
indoors. It smells like we live in the cat ladies house. And when is my
best friend going to get here?”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"> “A spring dick.” </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"> “Yes, I heard you the
first time.”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"> The back yard was
resplendent in the springtime. The lilies, freesias, wisteria all blooming in a
rhapsody of life and color. William and Charles would sit on the porch
every day for the next three months from nine until two, William drinking iced
tea and smoking small cherry cigars and Charles sipping whatever sickening
sweet cocktail of the day he could purge from the depths of his Cooking Light
magazine collection. His subscription had long run out, but he had the
tattered remains of every issue from March of 2000 until April of 2010, the
year he liked to refer to as his “<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">untimely
fall from grace.” </i>He had borrowed five hundred dollars cash from the
register at Hero’s Bar and Grill, his place of employment at the time. He
was short of cash and needed to buy heels and get waxed before the drag
competition at Apollo’s the weekend before Pride. He didn’t think the cash
would be missed. He was wrong. He always “<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">intended
to put it back out of my next paycheck</i>,” but there was no next
paycheck for Charles.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"> The cacophony of
fragrances in the back yard put to shame any perfume, of any old woman, on any
elevator, in Savannah Georgia, on any given Sunday. That was saying a
lot. The hummingbirds would flock by the hundreds in the spring to sip from any
one of twenty-five hand decorated bird feeders. Charles was certain that the decoration
was what lent to the large number of birds. He was of course, largely
overlooking the fact that there were no other hummingbird feeders for at least
ten blocks, but then how would he know that was the case.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"> The grass was as perfect
as any grass could be, neatly trimmed and cut, so resilient that sometimes the
afternoon sun would reflect harshly into the eyes of anyone on the porch who
was not wearing sun glasses. Charles only had the best sunglasses, polarized
and designer brands in every shape, color and style you could imagine.
The grass was no match for him.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Charles sighed
heavily and took a sip of his cocktail. When he didn’t elicit a response from
William he repeated his melancholy melodrama.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">
</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
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</span><br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Still no
response. After the third sigh without so much as a glance from William,
Charles began to sob lightly with his head on the back of his hand that wasn’t
holding the cocktail.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“What!!!!”
William shouted looking up for the John Irving book he was reading.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Charles nearly jumped out of his
chair and began to wail now instead of just sob.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“What do you
mean what,” he shouted back, tears streaming own his cheeks.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“You’re dying that’s what!!” He
slid forward in his seat and set the cocktail on the ground and started sobbing
into his cupped hands.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“I have been
dying for a year and a half now Charles.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">
</span>We do this little dance at least once a week, always after your third
martini.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Nothing has changed
except the timeline, and yes, the doctors say soon and I really do feel like
shit, but I don’t want to spend the rest of my time crying in the backyard with
the man I love.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>I want to
spend quality time and I need you to take my mind off of the facts, not keep
shoving a list of them under my damned nose every ten minutes.” </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“But what am I
going to do…. I’m too old to start over, I’m too ugly to get a job, and I’m too
fat to be a prostitute!”<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Still
wailing but in a more controlled manner, Charles got up and began pacing the
concrete.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“I have life
insurance enough for you to take some time to figure it out, you know that. You
are only forty-two and for chrissake you are not ugly, homely maybe, but not
ugly.”<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Charles stopped
wailing long enough to flip William the bird.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“Besides you
said that the cutie at the gym with the big bulge wants you.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>A couple of pokes with that thing
and you will forget all about me.”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>This comment brought a
fresh wave of sobbing. He turned to William, hands on his knees.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“How can you say
I will forget about you!!! I’ll never forget you.”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Charles returned
to his chair drying his eyes with a cocktail napkin.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“Besides I don’t
like penises that big, you should know that, I chose you.”<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>William laughed and took a puff
off of one of his cherry cigars.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“You will do
what everyone who is still living will do.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">
</span>You will get your ass out of bed, shower and comb that rats’ nest and go
out into the day with a positive mind and spirit and respect me by keeping
yourself together.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>You will
do fine.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>I think half of our
friends are just waiting for me to die anyway to try and get their filthy hands
on you and your insurance check.”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“Not to mention
my glowing skin and sizable package.”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“Sizable
compared to what?<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>A walnut?”<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>William laughed at his own joke
this time and took a drink of his iced tea.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“Do me a favor
and go to the night stand drawer next to my side of the bed and pull out the
envelope under my socks.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Do
not bring it out here.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>I was going
to give this to you after I was gone, but you have been such a mess, I just
want you to know you will be OK.”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Charles eyes
began to sparkle, fresh tears welled in his eyes.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“What is it?” <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>“Go”</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"></span><br /></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>Charles pulled
the yellow manila envelope from the drawer and sat down on the side of the bed.
He slowly unclasped and emptied the contents on to the duvet. There were three
things.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>The first was a
letter hand written on fine stationery, the kind William would always pay too
much for when he wrote his letters. The letter was short and said only this:</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div align="center" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: center; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">You were mine, for
the rest of my life, like I promised</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div align="center" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: center; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">I loved you from
the day we met</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div align="center" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: center; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">You made me great</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div align="center" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; text-align: center; word-spacing: 0px;">
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">And I leave you
with a heavy heart, but rapturous love<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">William<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>The tears were a
faucet now and Charles had to work to stifle his sobs, the tightness in his
chest threatening to choke him.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"> </span>He
didn’t even care what the other two items were at this point but picked them up
anyway. One was check for four hundred thousand dollars with a note written in
the memo line that read “Play Money” and the other was a lifetime subscription to Cooking Light magazine.</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">
In the bedro</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">o</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;">m Charles cried and reflected on his life. On the Porch, William
smoked and smiled.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="color: white;"></span></div>
Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-44484819193945516562018-08-28T10:51:00.000-07:002018-08-28T10:55:46.152-07:00Perseid<div style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "trebuchet ms","verdana"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I swore I would be repentant last time, trembling and crying, it was my environment<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
God didn’t believe me when I said I wouldn’t look at porn anymore either<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
But I was allowed to grow up just the same, never sure if I was on heavenly
probation<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
You told me to get my shit straight, that God didn’t like an idiot and I took
that to heart<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />So now in times of crisis I look to my heart first to see if it's true and gaze
into the everything<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Cosmic lineage doesn’t lie, helium, hydrogen, oxygen, neon, our elemental
family reunion<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />At the edge, I would stand perilously close and peek through
the universal boudoirs curtains<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
To spy on the naked truth and hold it close to my chest, sharing with passing
stars and comets</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">If I told you what the truth was you would chuckle condescendingly
and offer me a cigarette</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I would tell you anyway, because I love you and you should know…we all
should know </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> would wrap your shoulders in grandmas afghan so you wouldn’t catch a chill</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And go to bed knowing the seeds were planted, your dreams and the
universe would do the rest</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span>Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-19853589366922267582018-07-31T09:06:00.002-07:002018-07-31T09:08:47.262-07:00Enlightenment<div style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a0a0a; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black;"> </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white;">She stared out
her classroom window and watched a plastic bag blowing across the well-manicured
lawn, wondering if she let go, if her soul would become light enough to just
blow around the world.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>She imagined
floating high in the sky, staring in the windows of high rise apartments,
seeing life at its most intimate, the occupants sharing food, angry thoughts
and awkward love making. Watching to see if a woman brushing her teeth in the morning
would do it before bed time as well, as she is sure she tells her dentist she
does. </span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>She imagines flying
low to the ground through construction sites, where sweaty men work toward a
retirement full of arthritic backs, skin cancer and drinking problems born of a
self professed responsibility to feed their families and their own vices,
sometimes more the latter than the former. She wondered how many memories
should could fit inside herself before the weight of the world would be so
heavy that flying became an impossibility.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a0a0a; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10.66px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a0a0a; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>She thought that
night time would bring cool winds and the glow of lights in which she could see
the writers, the artists and the musicians practicing to become more than the
sum of their dreams.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>She loves the pajamas,
the late-night raids of the ice cream and the one man that would surely be surfing the high definition
images of his favorite creamy white thighs and dreaming of a tryst filled with
danger and delicious delight. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><br />
<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>She didn’t want
to understand the universe, she wanted to be the universe and know all of things
that were true and unknowable. She wanted to be filled with the warmth of
understanding, the elevation of compassion and the crisp sweet tang of
electricity. She longed to hold the human race in her bosom and cradle the
fears and triumphs, washing over their lives with a wave of security and a
notion that they were useful, beautiful and </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">l</span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">oved.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>She turned her
attention back to the front of the classroom and listened to the teacher do his
best to impart the wisdom of the world he knew and she knew it would not be
enough.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>When the bell rang she gathered her
books, walked to the front of the class and set them on the teachers desk.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Where are you
going,” the teacher asked.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>“Somewhere that
rings true and calms my mind and spirit."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>“Will you be
back?”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>“Look for me
outside your window, I will be there watching over you.” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">“Can I come?”</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>“When you
understand who you are, you will find a light at the bottom of your dream. You will find me there."</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: white;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-87410673476729621052018-07-12T12:04:00.002-07:002018-07-13T07:39:00.065-07:00Plague<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: white;">For Margarets prompt at the Imaginary Garden With Real Toads</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just last year the lake swallowed Mary Givney’s son whole.
That damnable oil slick surface not giving up a single ripple as he </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">slipped silently from sight. Two feet from shore and two feet from a boat, five people gawked on, not one moving an inch to try and save the boy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“It was his lot,” they said.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Who am I to interfere with God’s will,” they said.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“The fates are not to be trifled with,” they said.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When that boy came back to life in the fall, walking straight out of that water like the second coming, you should have seen the faces of the towns folk. As they watched him shamble through the main street, skin purple with the cold and eyes red rimmed and milky, he touched each one in the middle of the forehead.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In a voice choked with water and decaying vegetation he repeated the same word over and over.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Wish. Wish. Wish.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He headed for his mother’s house and the people followed, keeping a distance, not wanting him to touch them again, but amazed at the walking dead and scared of what he might do. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As he approached the house his mother came out and embraced him, tears in her eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Wish. Wish. Wish.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He repeated and then collapsed in a gelatinous heap, dead once again at her feet.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She stared out at the people and shook her head at them in disgust.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“What kind of evil
are you casting on us woman,” one of them shouted.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“What is this Wish
he spoke of,” another asked.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“We should burn
him so that he stays dead,” one man spat.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She stared at them, not in horror or anger, but in pity and
frustration.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“You created him,”
she</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"> said.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“He only wanted to
fit in,” she said.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“You have killed
he only thing I have ever loved,” she said.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> That is when the fist stone hit her in the leg. That was
when the boy became a King.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That was when
the die was cast</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: white;"></span>Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-9071821990473044992018-07-10T07:01:00.000-07:002018-07-10T07:02:18.686-07:00Captivating<div class="writing-item-writing-text" id="writingNotes" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana; padding: 0px 20px 10px;">
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<span style="color: white;">The empathy she showed was not born into her</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Rather it was born of her, her lot, her place</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Reaching for the same silver coins we all do</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">But reduced to tears by adolescent gossip</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">And the curse of being different</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">"Why do they tease me mother?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She was natures art project</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">"Your destiny is so much greater child."</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She was the mouth piece of the universe</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">She grew evenly, like rising, rich, brown bread, soul, mind, light</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">And time handed her gifts as necessary, depth, love, understanding</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">On a hill outside of Vinton, Iowa she breathed her first revelation</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">If you could have seen her that day when her potential was unleashed</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">You would have seen her for what she was....captivating.</span></div>
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Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-57941085303086922592018-07-08T10:14:00.000-07:002018-07-08T10:14:12.045-07:00Our Bravest Face<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
We saw the glade, we strolled the hollow, at five o’clock I brushed your hair<o:p></o:p></div>
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You sent shivers up my spine and talked of the milk white skin of my thigh<o:p></o:p></div>
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And we laughed about the Mister and seriousness of political love and polemic lust<o:p></o:p></div>
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And how difficult it is to listen to the worlds conventions and not lose hope<o:p></o:p></div>
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Companion loved, companion lost<o:p></o:p></div>
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You were rolled in oats and honey <o:p></o:p></div>
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And I whinnied and pranced about<o:p></o:p></div>
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The connection the slimmest and strongest filament <o:p></o:p></div>
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Umbilical nourishment and telepathic rapture<o:p></o:p></div>
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You fucking left me without a shore<o:p></o:p></div>
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We ate the berries, we bathed in lavender, at five o’clock you brushed my hair<o:p></o:p></div>
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You told me you were moving on, we cried pools of memories into your lap<o:p></o:p></div>
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And we laughed about the Mister and the seriousness or mortal thought and heavens trap <o:p></o:p></div>
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And how difficult the night would be without the crickets<o:p></o:p></div>
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Companion loved, companion lost<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was awkward, lithe and funny<o:p></o:p></div>
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And you laughed and rolled about<o:p></o:p></div>
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The connection being severed by a razors edge<o:p></o:p></div>
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What will I do without my sunshine<o:p></o:p></div>
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I fucking left you without a moor<o:p></o:p></div>
Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-42145096226672715632018-07-05T16:52:00.000-07:002018-07-05T17:05:12.283-07:00Paying for Peace<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Crossways, my mind sat bone still, night still, freeze tag still, hiding from the rapist still<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet it careened forward at breakneck speed, concerned about the beheadings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Twenty-seven to be exact, one of them an ice cream truck driver, imagine that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You broke into my zone and said a penny for your thoughts and punched me in the shoulder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I screamed in your face about how a penny wouldn’t even buy an ice cream sandwich wrapper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Much less the life of a decapitated Good Humor man, you scurried away distraught, confused<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had tried to buy peace last Saturday night with gold coin and whatever sex I could muster<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But my dalliance stared into my eyes and laughed, whispering in my ear before leaving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Peace is free for those who give away love and understanding for free.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was good thing, because I had been saving my love and understanding for someone deserving</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-8986749296790104052018-03-08T11:58:00.001-08:002018-03-08T11:58:13.509-08:00Pet Friendly Motels in Eastern ColoradoThe sign read, "No Smoking Dogs!"<br />
I looked at the desk clerk.<br />
"Sooooo, if my dog smoked cigars we wouldn't be welcome, or I can't barbecue a dog, oooor, no lighting a dog on fire and watching it smolder?"<br />
"The vending machine outside sells plastic cigarette smoking dogs....they stink"<br />
I checked my pocket for quarters.Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-827113736357895263.post-27308785893608049792017-12-01T09:31:00.001-08:002017-12-01T13:41:37.010-08:00Loving What You Do<i>Greasing the wheel. </i>He hated that saying. Lines like that definitely weren't thinking <i>outside the fucking box. </i>Friday meeting at four, the greatest idea ever. He sat, fingered the handouts and thought briefly about what made a man happy. Vodka soda, five fifteen? Chrisssakes that wasn't happiness. Whiskey sour at five seventeen? Now that's happiness.Herotomosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11486093602914824276noreply@blogger.com4