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15 February, 2012
I Did It
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I did it. And I did it without you. Hobbled around, (as is my custom these days) until I found the Rothkos in the National Gallery. Then I s...
14 February, 2012
No Martyrs Here
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There are no martyrs here – only a drunk without a bar in a city where one should either be drunk or between a woman's warm thighs (or b...
11 February, 2012
Winter Beach
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It's a rainy day by the sea. Overcast skies are supplemented by the sounds of traffic on Ocean View Avenue; but it's Saturday morni...
09 February, 2012
Eavesdropping in Spanish
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Fragments instructing the children to behave; Family gossip about Tio Louis; Presidential Politics. Reactions to Jack Kennedy's new girl...
06 February, 2012
Fade Into
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Imagined it all somewhat different. Rather, bold. Magnificent. Brightly lighted mini marquees. Macabre parades. Acquiescing smiles. Lim...
03 February, 2012
Tomorrow Today Forever
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I think I'll wander down to New Orleans and sit in the Saint Louis Basilica to pray. All the mad prophets say to know god, you must kno...
31 January, 2012
An Expert Destruction
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Main Street is crooked, runs right past City Hall, the police station, empties right in front of the University Administration building. Al...
26 January, 2012
Another Coffee Shop Poem
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[Dedicated to Lou Schau. Also to John Briscoe, Tim, Steve, Ed, and Vaughn (aka The Graybeard Round Table). Also to Heather Houzenga. I am no...
22 January, 2012
A Meditation on Nature and Experience
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After so many days, the ring cuts into the skin. Or, the finger grows around it. Like saplings grow round twine, twisting naturally unn...
19 January, 2012
Last Full Day
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The taste of last night's beer lingered this morning. Three in the morning, I can't sleep. That voice in my head, the one that's...
18 January, 2012
Two Days Past (Winter 2012)
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The streets have been cleared and the previous night's freeze packed the last snow fall, eliminating the drifts covering Illinois 64 t...
13 January, 2012
Day After Snow, 2012
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Snow covers all our petty arguments silences our numerous indiscretions and turns our thoughts, once again, towards warmth. Overcast morning...
12 January, 2012
Rosetta Stone Autopsy
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Two days ago it was warm enough to wake the flies. Now it's snowing, light dusting like powdered sugar over the gray and brown post-harv...
03 January, 2012
Winter Fruit
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The tangerines are surprisingly good and the apples will stew up nicely. Christmas was mild this year and though the local children were sad...
30 December, 2011
It Breaks the Heart
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I talk local politics over beer at the bar. Issues so important. Issues not so important. Issues that never change. You, at home. Living yo...
22 December, 2011
One Man's Hyde / Another Man's Savior
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The monster awoke this morning: broke loose from the cage and is wandering the streets of some anonymous small town in Northwest Illinois. ...
19 December, 2011
Straight Off The Wire
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1 st cup of java (early in the A.M): the city budget's busted the streets are full of pot holes, the water tastes like rust and and ins...
Ain't It Grand, These Culture Wars?
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There's no subtlety to any of it. Grand circle jerk symmetry internet artists (not) extraordinaire. It's all too easy. Buy into the ...
08 December, 2011
Tuesday / Truck Day / Spreading The News
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The sun is dead fish's eye buried under a cloudy sky the color of poisoned water. On a road twisting through several of several hundred...
02 December, 2011
[Singularity]
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Law of Entropy dictates in order for something to be born, some other thing, first, must die. Process as natural as grass grows. Process a...
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