Month: August 2021
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The Drink Problem
People with the drink problem. I simply can’t stand them. Not the alkys or the winos, not the mothers in a ruin of gin, not the problem drinkers who are afflicted with too much affection for alcohol. No. That is addiction. The ones I hate are the ones who drink badly, and, sadly, you know…
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Unmark My Grave
Carved on the stone is a name long forgot Cut by the hand of a man we know not The stone all askew, the grave long untended, A small life lived long but long ago ended. Few are remembered, and many not known. Many will leave as we came, all alone. Even the great and…
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The Way To Go
Dragging on, drawn out and drugged up, demented or diseased, and probably both, the ending we will meet is not likely to be the one we would choose for ourselves if we had that choice. That is not the way to go. Go out kicking and screaming. Go out shit faced and swearing. Go out…
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If Then Else End
If you don’t want me Then I don’t want you Else this love is false End if that is true
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Dear World
Dear world, how shall we be today, you and I? As I see the dawn break, I wonder. Will you be sunny and warm, open and welcoming? Or will you be too hot to bear, sticky and discomforting, like that first burning kiss, madly given, badly done, and sadly regretted? Will you be cold to…
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A Small Man Belittled
She’d gone too far. This time, too far. She’d made a small man out of him, though he stood six foot something in his shabby cellar-worked shoes. This time, he’d seen her play around with one of the good old boys, seen her play him for a fool, which he was not. He had to…
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Skin Like Starshine
Dead in the water, a bright gash in the darkness beneath the canal bridge, the fish was easy to scoop up and carry home. It was the first dead thing I had ever held that was not food. In the quiet of the untended and untidy back garden of the home that housed an unmanned…