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Ok, having lived through that period I can't share your love for The Village People. You couldn't walk five feet or go five minutes, damn you couldn't even turn on the TV without hearing that damn song when it was a hit :) But, I do like the poem. I agree with Sharon: there's strength under the play...

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Extremely vivid, Kate. Like it a lot. So glad you're here!

Thanks so much for the feedback. I'm so glad you hopped the hurdles and made it in. Sorry for the headache.

We are something that is a certainty— or certain as something can be post quantum theory and all the small stuff we say to sound smart or relevant, or whatever. Do bad guys love their children? Whose faces do they see from the balcony as they pull and pull and pull the trigger or make the calls that...

God save me
from licorice hills,
talking mares,
and the wise.
Set me gently in a field
amidst poppies
and Jack Russel Terriers,
with a silent wind
imparting nothing.

Original We count on others, we count the breaths between words and hope to find the missing parts of our meaning. Those, the uncountable, we number them as we number tears or their causes. We connect, it's a trick of chemistry. What comes after are willful decisions, pushes and pulls in which we s...

Unhinged and unhampered
by shut door sanity
and safe rooms

I will write my name in chalk
or chisel it in concrete.

My mark by my hand,
straight and unjacketed

no toe-curled scrawling
on padded walls

with crayons from a tiny box
where every color is red.

I'm glad to be here. I can't recall when I started writing. I had a grandfather that used to recite all sorts of old poems and song lyrics that he claimed to have written. I've come to learn then many were popular lyrics from around the turn of the last century, but hey, the bug stuck. For most of m...

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