Category: ShortStory
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The Big Muddy Blues Fest – Memoir Continued
The Big Muddy Blues Fest Yearly Vacations – Memoir Continued(roughly over the last ten years of my working career and well into my retirement) For a period of time after my divorce from Anne, I spent a few days each early fall in St. Louis for the Big Muddy Blues Festival. I usually drove, but…
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Ramblings
Another old one… Ramblings I’m empty pocket blue, riding a steel rail into the murky night. Time and miles roll by as I fly through ambiguous sights. As I close my eyes to all things consider, my life’s flight from stop, go, right turn, left, and wrong, impregnates the reverse with dreams of my…
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It’s Better Than Sex
Another old one from my Hiram days… It’s Better Than Sex That’s an intriguing idea. But if true –Why so many new feet on the wheel, andWhy so many new shoes?Why the millions in health club dues?Why the millions for mouthwash,Deodorant, and facial goo’s? If there is anything better than sex,Then where’s our patent, our…
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Nowhere in No Time
Nowhere in No Timeby Eilen Jewell Well the shape I’m inI’m a sight for sore eyesBeen rung out and hung outStrung out on the lineAnd all the girls they line upAt the bar downtownEverybody’s waitin’ for somethin’ to go down I’m just passin throughDon’t pay it no mind’I’ll be nowhere in no timeSee the highway…
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Memoir Continued – Dylan Graduates From College 2/2
We went to Dylan’s Senior Show and the graduation, and the auditorium was packed. We weren’t close enough to see the graduates very well crossing the stage. So, my photos of it weren’t very good. Oh well… but I did get some good pictures of him after the ceremony and of his senior show. Dylan’s…
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Memoir Continued – Dylan Graduates From College – 1/2
Dylan Graduates from Alberta School Of Art And Design 2012 Ian and Sean decided to ride with me (we’d take turns driving, so pretty much non-stop except for gas and food) to Alberta for Dylan’s graduation. A few days prior to our leaving, Sean came to Asland by way of Greyhound bus. The next leg…
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Sunshine of Love
Sunshine of Love in the sunshine of lovemy head is yellow shagmy body supple green as love-shine fadesmane bleaches whiteand supple turns tough white mane worries awayturns sparse, as tough limbsturn brittle and broken as the lions of springrange over the tomb wherethe sunshine of love lies inert –LE – 3/8/24
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3 AM New Year’s Morning 2011 – Memoir Continued
3 am New Year’s Morning 2011 – Memoir Continued A drunk driver plowed into the back of my car, which was parked on the street in front of our house. He hit it so hard that it totaled mine and pushed it into Tina’s car, too. Her’s had some minor bumper damage that we had…
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Reveling in the Sickness
Reveling in the Sickness eye for an eye justicethe hallmark of authoritarians:fascists, one-true-faithists,and patriots of any stripe ‘conservative values’the worship of authorityand fear of changepunish anything different only appropriate punishmentsfor any infractions are oldtestament eye for an eyeand death as the kool aid drinkersrevel in the sicknesshanging and burningthose of us who resist who see…
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Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule
Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsuleby Philip Appleman I have to tell you this, whoever you are:that on one summer morning here, the oceanpounded in on tumbledown breakers,a south wind, bustling along the shore,whipped the froth into little rainbows,and a reckless gull swept down the beachas if to fly were everything it needed.I thought of…
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