tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45606009189355635142024-02-08T06:09:16.824-08:00Dirt Bag ReviewShow me your goodies. Submit to dirt.bag.review@gmail.comPaycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-74161556743454359622017-08-16T11:22:00.003-07:002017-08-16T11:23:51.998-07:00MEN GUESSING THEIR LOVER’S DESIRES<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-47870233384093786282017-08-16T11:14:00.001-07:002017-08-16T11:15:21.457-07:00CAREERISM VS. LITERATURE<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I lived an old apartment with a struggling Army vet</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was a recovering born-again Christian</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I laughed at him, not in a mean way</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but because I was stunned. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The language I most loved and wrote in</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was barspeak, dive barspeak, and it may</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">have sounded garbled in a workshop</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">obsessed with politics but it told more truth</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">than anything I’d ever heard in a classroom </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and I’d have quit writing before I spoke</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in anything less than what I heard in the night.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do I have to say my professor is more successful</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">than I am and will ever be?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This was more than 20 years ago </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it’s still everything that’s wrong with literature</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the general fuckheadedness of the world—</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">no one telling the truth and claiming it’s the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Dave Newman</span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-82920425405413951312017-08-16T11:13:00.002-07:002017-08-16T11:13:48.811-07:00MOTEL 7 GARY, INDIANA <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sitting on the edge of a vibrating bed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">without any quarters</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">truck parked outside</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with some</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">other trucks</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at least one</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">still running</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">woman next door </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">threatening to gouge</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">her husband’s eyes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">out for looking </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at pornography.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I paid 60 bucks for this place</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the water is cold</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the bible</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">underneath the nightstand</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">crushes a generic tissue box.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you know the story of Mizpah?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He walked across Israel to become</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a fisherman and the Romans</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hung him upside down on a cross</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">then stabbed him in the side with a sword. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No one knows if Mizpah loved Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No one knows if committed a crime. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I took a bus across the country</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to work a job I hate. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now I hear sirens. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My three options are: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wisconsin</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">jail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or home. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I turn the bible upside down and shake </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but the verses refuse to fall out. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Dave Newman</span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-50231151239841066972017-08-16T11:12:00.002-07:002017-08-16T11:12:52.603-07:00The Climbers<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We leave the world with our heavy clothes on,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">slough off a day's worth of sweat and strip dress clothes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">stuck to our skin. forget the television with its terrible news.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We know that we’re too tired for change, except for a worn sweater</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and slippers, share just enough energy between us to climb the steps with you </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to our bedroom, untwist the question</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of floral blankets, cackle together like old spinsters, slide off</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">into this shared body of sleep. After the dream, tomorrow will be rain,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the city sky will bleed out over the three roofers I watch, climb </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a neighbor’s house, as I walk to work under their downpour </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of bent nails, the dust their work stirs up. They toss over empty coffee cups,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ragged shingles, the green one scurrying up with tools.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">already knowing the importance of being helpful, too young</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to consider the edge, slip of a tennis shoe on wet gutters,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that eternal oh shit moment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m thinking of the first time I fell from a ladder, How the plumber</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I worked with said, they’d bring flowers if I was dead, hire someone else the next day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I learned to survive the white knuckle climb, to hide</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the shaking knees, the flaming back and get there. Leave the boy</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on the steep, wet rungs below. Don’t look back at him, ask if he’s ok,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">let him think about what might happen, the grip this has on his hands,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the rain, when it picks up, how it’ll make the decision for him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">never again and never again and never again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Bob Walicki</span></div>
<br />Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-31943732997778880002017-08-16T11:11:00.002-07:002017-08-16T11:11:40.395-07:00Frances Feeds the Bear<div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
That's a bear, Frances.</div>
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Yeah, says Frances.<br />Do you want to feed the bear?<br />Frances smiles and shakes her head happily.<br /><br />What should we feed it? Apricots maybe?<br />Yeah, says Frances.</div>
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The bear wears a soft smile.<br />And I have a soft heart for him.<br />He belongs to Frances's mother.<br />The bear feeds on invisible apricots.</div>
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Frances disappears behind the sofa.<br />The bear stays still.<br />The afternoon grows into evening<br />like Frances's hands looking more like my own.</div>
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-- Joseph Hurtgen</div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-20447410543562003042017-08-16T11:10:00.001-07:002017-08-16T11:40:59.877-07:00Like I Before<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sober and undrugged I rehearse in my head</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to my wife in the kitchen "I'll have a cup a coffee,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please, love," but instead hear myself say</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Ittlebut wattleap..." then "Spipton,"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">when I want to apologise for nonsense.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I see my right hand side as a grey blur,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">my left hand side is clear and sharp,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">my headaches. I can't communicate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wobble as my brain sloshes from side</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to side of my skull until I sit.</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-e36e03b4-ec3c-cad8-2c1f-45cab49eb634"></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Paul Brookes</span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-80268768510575874762017-08-16T11:09:00.002-07:002017-08-16T11:39:03.912-07:00The Ideal Husband<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Should know his wife's knicker and bra size,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">her favourite perfume,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shoe size, how she takes her tea and coffee,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">what she hates to eat,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">her ideal colour scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Especially after 16 years,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">until she changes her mind </span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-e36e03b4-ec3c-1e9f-eb43-59f5322790cf"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Paul Brookes</span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-9861513252127334422017-08-16T11:08:00.003-07:002017-08-16T11:38:45.743-07:00Reminds<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">herself to use her legs when pulling out weeds </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">so she don't get pain in her back aggravated</span></div>
<span style="color: red;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-e36e03b4-ec3b-4e24-23c1-247783f56524" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by weight of cat litter bags she puts</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in her tartan shopping trolley when she meets</span></div>
<span style="color: red;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
</span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">her friend Flora in town to share a tuna salad </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">homemade by Sully the African refugee.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Paul Brookes</span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-81571454896701093232017-08-16T11:06:00.003-07:002017-08-16T11:07:07.354-07:00Three by J.B<div class="m_2701943026647382385MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
<b>Brazil<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">yellow flowers<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">surround brazil<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">although <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the popcorn festival<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">is no more<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b>Ozark Sunset<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">hypnotized<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">by an Ozark Sunset<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and twelve hours <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">on the road<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">headlights spark<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">fireflies<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">with sleep<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">still in their eyes<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b>For Don Wentworth<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">there’s magic<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the room<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">as I watch’<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">your words<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">land</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">-- Jason Baldinger</span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-56887182820346295382017-08-16T11:05:00.003-07:002017-08-16T11:05:42.956-07:00Horizons, Et Cetera<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">It always goes back</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">to these crowded bars—</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">talking of nothing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">in between sips of beer foam</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">it always goes back to</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">the stage where they hammer</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">out love bites into sound,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">beat their feet with the pulse</span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">of a hundred lungs inflating</span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">staring into the spotlight of</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">a vagabond horizon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">These weirdos, jock heads, stoners,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">yupsters, post hippie-hipsters, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">free-love megalomaniacs, dead poets, these</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">burnouts, these forgotten souls</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">look a lot like me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And I'm wading through their</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">choruses of self-deprecation </span></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">humming my own refrain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Classic Typewriter;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">-- Damian Rucci</span></span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-20465897622910871482017-08-16T11:04:00.002-07:002017-08-16T11:04:11.969-07:00The oddest things can save us<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
Every broken piece</div>
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is a part of something</div>
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the form that it takes at the end </div>
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<br /></div>
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is only a sign </div>
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<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
of how we survived. </div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
--- James Diaz</div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-26545496965607301562017-06-14T13:51:00.003-07:002017-06-14T13:51:38.419-07:00Mario Lemieux<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waits for the puck in a New Kensington living room.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The wall poster action shot above a worn out couch.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A woman bends down to sweep her carpet with a broom.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dog hair, Dorito crumbs, torn receipts. I wait</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with tools to be told where the broken sink is.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“That was 92" she says. "Their second cup.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Third period. I was there when he scored the game winner,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">banged that puppy right in.” I walk past toys, strewn clothes,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a ceiling fan dangling by the wires and kneel before the porcelain God.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A cracked sink and faucet that screams burning hot water or nothing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at all. When I leave, the new sink shines like a full moon in the dark</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of burned out lamps, the unswept dirt of pizza crusts and Legos.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mario on the wall, looming like a ghost on ice, before the shot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before any goal could save a city. In town, the buildings I pass</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fade into a wet blur. Flecked with rain, the businesses stripped</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of names, boarded up glass, soaped up or duct taped.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nothing open but a bar and a bank, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Citizens</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">flashing alive in neon.</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No one here will scoring anything tonight, but maybe a little weed,</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a six pack after work and the game on tonight, the ice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cleaned of its scratches and cuts, made new, </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TV’s filling our rooms with blue light, a chorus of screams. </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That hunger we don’t want to name.</span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-7a9476fa-a85b-29c3-a0a1-9654a1af2f92"></span><br />
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-- Bob Walicki </div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-30838874536590665672017-04-27T22:11:00.000-07:002017-04-27T10:19:29.948-07:00A Warm Winter<div dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I pine for the</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">soft robots</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and fast sloths</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of spring.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it’s been months of</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hot blood:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hot blood</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at lunch,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hot blood</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the shower.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I want to kiss you</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like a kitten licks</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but we kiss</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">like we’re chatting,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not like cats</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at all, and</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anyway, ever since</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I found that cat</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and brought him back,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">my life is</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">through a haze of fur.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I saved his life</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">instead of watching</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">werewolves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">now it’s all stupid</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">meows instead of</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">transformations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">even my nosebleeds are</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mundane.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">there’s no snow.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we hike in the mud.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">my only pleasure is </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the feel of your arm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tell me that anecdote</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -----Tessa Barber</span></span>Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-84325075637078604932017-04-27T14:31:00.000-07:002017-04-27T10:19:07.506-07:00Bunny's Hasty Tasty Pancake House, Dayton, OH<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>- for Lee Morgan</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We don't like the pancakes we like the eggs over easy</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we like the formica tables our names etched </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the deep old scratches we like the bottomless</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">coffee and the fine bottoms of waitresses</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we like Elgar and Toscanini the way they</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">slide into the booth with us and get us all</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to quietly hum along we like the view of the</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">parking lot and the passing traffic and </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we like Bunny and how he says he's</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lefthanded in both hands we like </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">how he still likes Eisenhower and keeps</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his photo up over the grill a shining</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">layer of bacon grease glossing the eyes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the great general we like the shelters</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bunny built during the war for the orphans</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and nuns out of big mahogany boxes</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and how he dug the tunnels under the floors</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to help warm their dirty bare feet</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we like that we don't have to talk about the war very</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">much at all we like that we're here and not at Bill's Donuts</span></div>
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Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-84818627634242721942017-04-27T12:28:00.000-07:002017-04-27T10:19:48.564-07:00Perry the Worm Had a Habit of Handies<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The books were very unremarkable. So I always </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">low-balled the fuck out of him. He was so wormy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I was wrong. He continued to come in every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">-- Scott Silsbe</span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-50487992613466990532017-04-27T12:22:00.000-07:002017-04-27T10:20:04.645-07:00Five Short Ones<div style="font-size: 16px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Under this whiskey hat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">all my stories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">we called her Suzie zit-tit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ten beers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">& still no</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">better angels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">bags of sorrow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">every woman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">every man</span><br />
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Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-49259742497579240962017-04-27T10:17:00.001-07:002017-04-27T10:23:57.983-07:00My Drunk Places<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One grown numb</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Falling snow</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On his lips</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When they found this horse</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Eating flowers</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the lighthouse garden</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Everyone knew</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was time</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To drag the lake</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">-- Mark Borczon</span></span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-70938537947542364292017-04-27T10:16:00.001-07:002017-04-27T10:17:16.883-07:00The Way I Know my Own Daughters<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>For Lily, Aurora and Sophia</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There are birds in my heart</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">With wings that thrum</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like Spanish guitars</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Their appetites lead me</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To seek out flowers</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And rivers and, at night</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Any surface that reflects</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The moon</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">One bird sings to me</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">About love and tells me</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Her boy is as graceful </span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As a dancing horse</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tells me that music</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Comes from the air</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All around him</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Like a harmonica</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Caught in</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The other bird sings only</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Of sadness and shame</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">She makes her song from</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Safety pins and the blade</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From a pencil sharpener</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Her voice draws her own blood</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As she sings a death song</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To her father over</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Without my birds I</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Wouldn’t know rivers or</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Flowers or where to</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Find the moon when it</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Lays upon the ground</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And I would not know</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The music of love and pain</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The way I know</span></span></div>
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">My own daughters</span></span><br />
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<span class="m_-7126427417773787287gmail-Style18pt"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">-- Mark Borczon</span></span></div>
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Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-23811519114988252852017-04-27T10:14:00.003-07:002017-04-27T10:14:45.535-07:00Tony<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">
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still in</div>
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phase one</div>
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setbacks</div>
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his dignity</div>
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the judge</div>
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a child</div>
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when he</div>
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hung himself</div>
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the same</div>
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day the</div>
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his motorcycle</div>
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Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-7307734736783811442017-04-27T10:14:00.001-07:002017-04-27T10:14:10.415-07:00Poem on Van Gogh's Birthday<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: normal; margin: 4.5pt 0in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I didn't mind<br />when she said<br />she wasn't going</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br />to sleep with me<br />or anyone until<br />she was married</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">I didn't mind<br />when her grandma<br />called me a sissy<br />at dinner when<br />I said the plane<br />ride made me nervous</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">I didn't mind<br />her redheaded cousin's<br />hand on my leg<br />as she tried to<br />convince me to<br />leave her behind</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">I didn't even mind<br />her fathers constant<br />preaching at me<br />about the need<br />to put God at<br />the center of my life</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">but when we were<br />at the Metropolitan museum<br />and she was trying<br />to rush me through<br />the Van Gogh exhibit<br />finally stopping in front<br />of one of my favorite<br />paintings to ask me<br />what is so fucking good about this</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">I knew our relationship<br />was over.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">-- Matt Borczon</span></div>
Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-87669347860694499312017-04-27T10:13:00.000-07:002017-04-27T10:13:07.836-07:00Some days the war<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: normal; margin: 4.5pt 0in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">some days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">about</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">some days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the war</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">sandwich</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">I’ve eaten</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">whole but</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">some days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the war</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">is an</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">open doorway</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">walk through</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">some days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the war</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">is a</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">5 finger</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">death punch</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">song on</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">my car</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the only </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">end I</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">can see</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">is us</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">going through</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the windshield</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">entangled</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">like lovers</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">some days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the war</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">is my</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">mother</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">reminding me</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">that no one</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">will watch</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">sick children</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">some days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the war </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">is a</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">drinking buddy</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">my wife</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">worries about</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">when ever</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">we leave</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the house</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the war</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">is my</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">lord and</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">savior</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">writing poems</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">and watching</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">over me</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">like a </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">machine made</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">of shame</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">some days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the war</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">is my</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">5<sup>th</sup> prom</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_172403504" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">in 4 years</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">I own</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">the tuxedo</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">but can’t</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">remember who</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">I agreed</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">to go</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">with</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">and some</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">days the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">war is</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;">live I</span></div>
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Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-77578697396441289382017-04-27T10:10:00.003-07:002017-04-27T10:10:57.356-07:00The Great American Apple Pie Fight<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seven dwarfs</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">outside the petersburg chamber of commerce</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">all the while</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lee greenwood sang the chorus</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“proud to be an American”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an endless loop</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was moved</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it was like </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had an apple pie fight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with god</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e2cd75b-b064-6da4-0795-9854e1d5b449"><br /></span>Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-88261555965052543622017-04-27T10:08:00.003-07:002017-04-27T10:09:15.052-07:00Drive in Theaters<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was home to many, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">as it should’ve been,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cars being its commerce.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But now they are gone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No more Blue Dell, Greater Pittsburgh,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and Ardmore.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead it’s strip malls,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walmarts, and Sunday flea markets.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What’s left is us,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">those conceived in tailfinned </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chevys and DeSota’s.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fogged windows of desire</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and forgotten protection,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">caught up in the rapture</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of Bogart and Bacall, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the tin speaker</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">jangling on the glass,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the family behind,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">flashing high beams,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">having just released </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">their own hostaged children</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from the deceitful trunk ploy,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dad wishing he could’ve left them there.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And they all met </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the concession stand</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">because who could resist</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">talking popcorn boxes?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And they’d buy overpriced </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and shriveled hot dogs</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that spun on silver rollers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And teenage girls would shiver</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-1a3c4391-b062-8cf2-b739-6b0562495681"><br /></span>Paycheckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08195505392480786763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560600918935563514.post-5312492852354830152017-04-27T10:06:00.003-07:002017-04-27T10:53:23.454-07:00Collected Night<br />
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The harvest moon<br />
is actually a pink balloon, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">but you didn’t believe me,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">out in a collected night,<br />
a snakebite<br />
and prohibition’s opposite </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">goes hand in hand,
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ale and ailment.
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I recall the handcuffed moment, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the red grape bliss,<br />
carnal tangents,<br />
an October blur so vivid-- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">police flashes in the mirror, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">your head resting on my arm
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">on our way out,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">we drove off for poetry </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and the law put an end </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">to our reckless romance,
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">but even inside jailed walls<br />
I loved you,<br />
outside of everything<br />
I loved you, our broken hearts, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">temptation leading us
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">to foolishness,<br /><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">unregrettable irresponsibility,
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">our half harvested moon </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and inevitable eclipse. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-- Brain Harman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The road not taken is brought to you by </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Goodyear,
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<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">when two roads diverge in the woods, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Goodyear makes all the difference. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "timesnewromanpsmt"; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-- Brian Harman</span></div>
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