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Ode To A Coin, Minted In The Year Of My Birth

Like me, you’re worn down. You’re not as bright, or as sharp as you once were. In some ways, you’re worth more than you used to be; in other ways, less. You’ve lost some of your edge, but you’re still … Continue reading

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Inaugural Post

What’s in My Journal? Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean things, fishooks, barbs in your hand. But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable. Junkyard crucifixes, voluptuous discards. Space for knicknacks, and for Alaska. Evidence to hang me, or … Continue reading

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Donation – with apologies to William…

On a shelf in a box his ashes lie.In someone else his bones are laid.Excuse me, child. Are those his eyes?Nothing of him remains,but that suffered a surgeon’s changeinto someone fortunate and strange.

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The Fire in my Head

I walk down the roadwith a fire in my headand my friends all say,“Man, you’re better off dead.” And my hands and my feetare all calloused and wornand my mind’s split in halflike a shroud that’s been torn. And the … Continue reading

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Strange Geometry

Posting some old stuff I had posted earlier at deviantart. This one is geek poetry at its finest: What kind of strange geometryhas brought me back to you;Where one can walk a straight lineand circle back to two. I’m going … Continue reading

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