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Perform a good deed in silence and anonymity! Forget about rejoicing. A ( Read more... ) -
A Fallen Star
Yesterday I was informed by Chris that our longtime friend, Tom Routledge, had passed away. Tom was in his 70s, and had been experiencing health problems for awhile, yet I was still shocked to hear the news, particularly since he had just commented on my most recent journal entry a few days ago, in his usual good-natured way. I feel a mighty blow ( Read more... ) -
Walking through a doorway
This morning I was on BART and saw a middle-aged woman with a faded tattoo under her right forearm getting ready to disembark. Her bag bore the “SFO,” tag, indicating that she was coming from somewhere else, and returning home. I pictured a moderately furnished, well-lived in, middle-class home in El Cerrito that was not going anywhere. It ( Read more... ) -
meta-dream
I was following a small dog. The snow stretched endlessly all around us. Then I sunk, or I slipped and I was on the underside of a cliff, an avalanche was occurring--it was so cold it was spontaneously freezing everything it touched, despite the fluid-qualities of the snow. I saw it coming, there were others around me, I thought of how I could ( Read more... ) -
Merry Christmas: Three poems
Dusk
Sliding past each other
in the doorway of Good Vibrations
our matching messenger bags
reflecting halogen kink
like moths in a web
Evening
Standing in bookstores
all day long
"you have to make time for the important things,"
says the clerk
Oftentimes
The sun glinting
on each moment
every particle
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Corn Mo
I saw this guy last weekend. It was a pretty amazing experience. If you can see Corn Mo perform, you should do it.
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I am increasingly disturbed by this place. Currently, I sit in a cafe, where, on the other side of the room, a shell-shocked looking man stares out with beady little eyes, occasionally talking to himself. As far as I can tell, I am the only one who seems to take notice in this, who continues to glance at him. I am disturbed by the insanity of ( Read more... )
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