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253 Steps

253 Steps

253 Steps There’s 253 steps to get to the top. It’s difficult – if not impossible – climbing all 253 steps. Some only make it 5 or 6 steps before pausing forever. Before stopping to catch their breath forever. Those same ones will wish you to stay down with them, to lament with them, how […]

Movies

Movies

Movies Sitting in the library in Chicago. Wasting a morning with cheap coffee and poetry, when a book on shelf R9 catches my attention: The Films of the Seventies. I pull the book off the shelf and begin to skim. Many of the films I’d seen but their plots I’ve forgotten. For a while, it […]

The Rapper

The Rapper

The Rapper Taking a piss at the library in Chicago. I hear a guy in one of the stalls rapping about wiping his ass. I don’t think he was a very good rapper. There was a lot of mumbling as he struggled to rhyme “ass” with “cash”. I wondered if he could pull it off. […]

Veggie Tray

Veggie Tray

Veggie Tray She said she was making chili for the party. Other people, she thought, might bring pizza or wings. She said there might also be cupcakes or cookies and chips. Though I already knew, still, I asked out of politeness, what she wanted me to bring to her party. She asked, “How about a […]

Freedom to Escape

Freedom to Escape

Freedom to Escape The warden paid a visit to Prisoner 1023388. She looked ill, but comfortable, behind the bars in her striped prison uniform. “You’ve been confined a long time,” the warden told her. “But I’ve got some good news.” From inside her cage, the prisoner replied, “Am I getting out? Finally?” “Do you know […]

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Time-Out
poetry

Time-Out

Time-Out for your own good put yourself in time-out from the crowd to be the parent to yourself that the … Continue reading Time-Out

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