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so, I just took a message to my head from lifelong old friends whom I haven’t heard from since the 80’s, two of ’em actually, who both moved out to Seattle after that to work for Microsoft I believe, no names here. one of these two young brothers said to me in my head as…
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I had a baby in PA whom I just couldn’t keep. I was so ill and smoking and drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes and taking psych meds. At a low moral ebb, driving around the countryside going to coffee shops with or without friends; going to Partial Hospital Programs. the second child whom I aborted…
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so, the kids came back Thanksgiving Day! Ian’s woman friend and I bonded over buying a last minute turkey and fixings. I was desperate for a pack of cigarettes and she needed to get out for some wine;and we blasted through the supermarket picking up everything for perfect Thanksgiving meal. I was prepared to attempt…
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I am reminded on my way here to post that Aliens belong to God. Are part of Creation. Which is broader than we thought. Extends to the Universe. Quarks black holes and the like. It’s all under God. God is bigger than it all. And runs things. so, when I appealed for the help of…
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ok so here’s the upshot. the kids are going south together for Thanksgiving dinner at the girlfriends family home. I have never felt more embarrassed. they didn’t even bother to tell me. I have been slowly running out of money for weeks and have zero left and have had no way to get to a…
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I was prepared to pull out my classic orange marmalade and bacon bird this year but it just didn’t happen that way. instead there is war over who stays and who goes. the girlfriend has other family to go to. I was uninvited a long time ago. So, I was prepared for this. at least,…
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is the word for bending so you don’t break and a good one for stemming the tide here Thanksgiving Day where my son’s girlfriend is trying to start something. It is only 9 a.m. and we have already been on this warpath for 2 hours. Even as I was waking up.
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I was so embarrassed by that poem, actually, it was intended as a song. I did set it to music that I can’t render here but it had a sort of nasal twang, I never tried another song. in 2021, the year of my 30th wedding anniversary, I got a bit of flesh –a ‘lesion’–…
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I had another favorite own poem from the early 2000s that I wrote up on the magic erase board at my psychiatrists office: “Love, Love, Love Love makes your hair grow gray. Love, Love, Love It’s worth it anyway. Love, Love, Love Find it right where you are No matter who you are Find it…
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