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May, 2008




5/25/08-Cute kids it's picking up change like a wind blasted fire flashing across a field out there pain conditions abhorrent of astringency firmness seriousness laryngitis prostatitis chapped hands lips liquids promoting looming change intense volatile chemistry astringency wine tea mouthwash whiskey drought coffee chocolate syrup a fine dorsal muscular form firmness seriousness determination cute kids holiday weekend your change like a wind blasted fire flashing across a field banned book catcher in the rye ready for pick-up at the oak hill library branch it's really picking up out cute kids there cooling drought nipples erect texas worm snake rescued sandhill cranes aloft bats in his belfry were compassionate kathleen you dear and funny it's really picking up out there and caring but you lived and died by bad karma cute kids were volatile chemistry change like a front wind blasted fire cute kids flashing across a field the browning of the enamel motion adjustment to life as a tie two doors close it two gold bars brass or iron balls real or fake yes we do it in the road here it's really picking up out there at looming change intense drought time cute kids change like a wind blasted fire flashing across a field...




5/16/08-Life sentence floaters strings of optical bacteria walking people right to left forty yards out grackle foraging in shade then sunlight then shade again nearby anxious dog no tantrum though when I leave her to deposit fran's performing paychecks free coffee throat tickle head bobbing bird mechanical with each half step the neck shifts forward or backward windblown tree limbs waving hi my car runs well now no trouble on our recent trip may be time to replace fran's a few cirrus clouds aloft in an otherwise blue clear bowl of atmosphere how long blue how long red how long our civilized existence how long comfortable average temperatures the companionship of a host of other living forms how long my own individual extension of daily rotations and then nothing will there by dignity or meaning or purposefulness in the end will there be panic extreme pain or an opening into perfection somehow it has already happened all of it down or up to the minutest swirl of atomic orbit the weakest nuclear bond in this only and worst and best of our possible realms of being or in just one among an almost yet not quite infinite quantity each for every slightest potential alteration a myriad of chance cosmos isotopes all of which however innumerable part of the supreme encompassing total not separate at all an exquisite fathomless whole...

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