SorryShe brings me bright-eyed expectations—I never fail to disappoint. Each week we search for meaning on the Sorry! board: two says draw again; four takes as many steps backwardsSorry
I move always forward, and she sees me going nowhere.
Puppy-like, she is sad to hear the bell, my signal disappear around a
corner as a grateful ghost, but I never miss the frustration that darkens her once-hopeful countenance.
She finds no wizened secret
wisdom written on the smooth pages of my face, and
I only smile, saying nothing.
Ode to a Day at the BeachAfter a long drive on a hot day,Ode to a Day at the Beach
we eat in the shade, sandwiches of avocado and sweet summer tomato then discarding towels and pink Frisbee, slipping out of shoes, our clothing shed like blanched almond skins, we run across rocky sand that bites into out tender soles and at last surrender,
give all to cold, murky water and clear blue sky.
We wade out past small children cradled
in inflatable seashells, convincing each other that the
grasping weeds lurking
at t
The Motherfucking CometThe Motherfucking Comet is more than a dreamThe Motherfucking Comet
more than a speculation, what we
might call the celestial body we fancy purchasing before we graduate
is more than a tired, hysterical joke conceived among friends on a dock in the dark
is more than the sum of its parts, more than cold plus shootingstars plus sharp distant glimmering lights across dark water plus cheesy horror scifi flicks plus an electric blanket
minus the electricity plus paranoia voices in the night—
It is the future. It is inescapable. It is wonder
Frustration
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. " - Jimi Hendrix
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. " - Jimi Hendrix
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Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
:Clap:
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Ugh, just sit on it and spin.
^^
-wg
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