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Abandon Hope….
I’m not smart like some others. I have no memories. I just know I’m here, sandwiched between a blender’s vibrating plastic container and a stack of rechargeable hand warmers. Needless to say, it’s hot. And the blender’s gasket may be faulty, as her rattle makes me wonder if her top…
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The Moving Finger
The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. (From the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald) Sometimes, I walk past a mirror…
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The Emperor’s New Wing
The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. *** Nothing is as easy as it looks; everything takes longer than you think. And, if anything can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time. Murphy’s Law *** So…
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Common Ground
The question is not if or to, but when and what or why and where and how? If one does this instead of that, the end may shift by threads, or swelling clouds of snow. But time, as lord of all, crafts here and now at whim. Yet what is…
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Simple Gifts
Every season this year came off-balance—warm too early, cold too early, ferociously windy or wet, then oddly calm and too dry. Our heat goes off, comes on, windows open and close, we pile on blankets then shed them a night later, and watch nature’s confusion. We assumed our sparrows didn’t…
