September 2010
3 posts
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August 2010
5 posts
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– Playing For Change | Mole In The Ground
Radiant
The smile on my face wrapped around my head and I knew that the crowd behind me could tell I was happy. They were upset but it didn’t register with me.
I kept telling myself….I was due. I was due.
Finally some guy yelled “Hey jerkwad, do you mind if my kid gets a turn on the swings!!!”
July 2010
16 posts
Pensacola
There was this unshakeable sadness that had him in its grip. Some times, many times, it would disappear for weeks, for months and even years to the point where he began to believe it would never come back. On those rare occasions when happiness paid him a visit, he would do his best to enjoy being in the present.
In those happy times, his energy would exponentially double - filling him with...
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End over end the glass cube spun off into the distance before coming to rest on a the soft pillow of dandelions. The sticky tongue of a chameleon struck it like a harpoon to a whale and it disappeared down into the depths of the lizard’s guts.
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Jumpppppp
Soft piercing eyes covered in baggy flesh set into a melted pumpkin of a head. Words shot out of a narrow opening towards the pumpkin’s base.
“Jumpppp!! Jumpp!! Jump!! JUMP! Jummmmmppppp!”
I jumped. About 2 inches up and 2 inches back down. My feet landing on the sidewalk with a flat plastic sound.
“Happy now?”
The pumpkin smiled a big squash smile.
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Cavalier
When it happened I deserved it. I was being careless - holding it in one hand not giving it my full attention. I was in mid catch when something distracted me and it fell and hit the tile floor. It didn’t shatter but just laid there, still pumping, still beating, but definitely hurt, injured, bruised. I picked it back up and put it in my chest but I knew that something was amiss and that...
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June 2010
26 posts
Confused & Dazed
The labyrinthian fog left me disoriented. The blinking lights left me dazed. The loud pulsating bass line left me hurting. The Justin Bieber concert left me emasculated.
Candle
What’s on the other side of a shadow? Is it the dark waterfall of depression that tumbles forever downward into a interminable blankness? Maybe the shadow is a snapshot of me in time. Here I am shadow! We are intertwined in our own clueless destiny. Wherever I go you must follow. I shine my flashlight on you and pierce your fearlessness. The light makes you mortal like me. Together...
Dusk
There are dawn people and there are dusk people. Dawn people relish in being there as the world comes to life as the sun slowly lifts its heavy yawning head. Dusk people are different. They rather like the closing up of shop as the day winds down, their pleasure is in this unassuming prelude to the night. Call me a dusk person.
Dusk reminds me of Spanish moss dangling from towering, gnarled...
Last Days
His finger crept under the glued seam of the envelope and methodically slipped along the crease to break the seal. It was odd to receive a paper letter these days and even more so because it was addressed to a name that he hadn’t used in twenty years. As his nervous hands unfolded the pale blue sheet he gulped down his fear.
“Doug Jones,
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I am
I am the people I meet
I am the strangers I help
I am the husband and the father
I am a solitary chord in the universe’s song
I am a son and a brother and a nephew
I am a friend and a confidant
I am a heart surrounded by organs and limbs
I am a soul that yearns for enlightenment
I am a clown and jokes are my trade
I am an employee
I am my family and they are me
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