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Back Exam

X-ray technician holds film to light, whispers aloud: “My God you're constipated...”
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Lure

I’m that fly fisherman way upstream where I’ve never been waist deep in quiet water catching myself trying too hard.

My Father’s Prison Letters

Today I found them by chance and re-read them: he tells me it’s because of the drink that he is in jail and that he is going to stop...

Reverse Rumi

Always live in regret. The past is ever present. There are no new days; you are the same person you were before. Believe that today will be...
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Phoenix, 1965

In a park near my home some big fucker who didn’t like my face took a swing at me. I blocked his right hand with my left & by chance my Tiparillo cigar smashed into...

A moth in the park

it’s 5.00 pm still no luck out in the cold the apartment dreary teenage boys cutting in front of me to do their laundry and smoke hash on the dryer i have...

Catch a Buzz

The men I see in daylight

Napkin poems

Holding the bong

Hollywood

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reading Leonard Cohen by candlelight, visualizing bonfire night, your birthday were you still alive under that streetlamp, we could walk together to your bench and talk awhile it’s what we always did best— just talk,...
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Sometimes I sit in a room

and listen to the silence which isn't really silence but a collection of many subtle sounds similar to a television or radio playing in the background they are there...
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Night Comes Down

Cows doze along one side of the barb-wire, tombstones on the other, a few ragged leaves and a cigarette wrapper scurry across the highway, a skittish breeze is...

Pfizered

2 shots of Pfizer and I’m hung over I walk like I’m in waves in the ocean that are swaying me all around this vaccination is a disease unto...
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Mighty Fine Stripper from Portland

Her stage name was Cupcake. It’s not often that you meet a woman when her crotch is already in your lap. But fortuitous. As...
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Pandemica

I can't take this stuck, covid 19 not a store open to buy something inessential (which are the best things to buy) I've gone to corona hell and I don't...

Music Scene

The men I see in daylight

Napkin poems

Holding the bong

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