March 2010
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March 9
Fading light stretches before us in lace swaths of amber, I have forgotten everyone. It hasn’t been long Since faces escaped me. They ran from sight, ghosted. The cool breeze under theater seats. Public places are always too cold. We all jumped the gun on Spring. But how couldn’t we, After feet and feet of gradiated snow, layers of ice like quartz, and winds too biting to be brave in....
February 2010
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Secret Douchebaggery
1: Last month, I had stiff paper clothes tags explaining the sustainable nature of my shirt sitting on my dresser for three weeks before I threw them out. I took the tags off it’s partner shirt yesterday, and not thirty miutes ago, reached for them, thinking, “I was such a douchebag last month, but I’ve grown now, I’ve changed, and I’ll just go ahead and toss them in...
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BANK ROBBERS
He waits in the snow. It’s late afternoon, but that winter version that seems darker than night. His breath melts in midair. And what would there be to see, anyway? His invisible warmth? He feels nothing. And what would there be to feel?
She pulls up. She saw him, it feels like, seventy blocks ago. His gray hat, the gray sky, his gray exhalations. He is everything - the pavement, the cement...
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Blizzard 2010
The sky is collapsing and I, for one, want no part in it. I prefer gentle comforts; hours of sleep, cigarette leftovers, small appliances for emitting heated air. There is much less possibility outside my window than there used to be. Besides, there is always the chance of dying by the great, incomparable sky.
January 2010
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All Cooped Up for fun and unique projects.
I just went to pineneedles.com, and I’m pretty cool about having a similar name. They have chicken themed quilting squares. That’s pretty much the theme of this site, too.
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Bucket List One
1. Get stoned with Tom Brokaw in Africa. Preferably in some kind of tent, or a jeep parked by a lake (nonsexually).
2. Meet the Burt’s Bees lady.
3. Become a beekeeper. Possibly professionally.
4. Go to Coney Island (an easy one.)