The Morning of the Steeler-Bengal Game At the end of a meandering dream where sleep flakes encounter twilight, and discarded origami swans search for currents of air. You play Scrabble with Polish names, and discover how many different ways to build a Lego hovercraft. Buffalo enters your thoughts to last Hanukkah with the Robinowitzes in [...]

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November November is a brown & gold cornucopia filled with autumn and laced with chilblains. The threshold of winter meets the final harvest of the season. Pike Street loses its flavor as the merchants screech at the snug customers. Freaks aren’t as funny anymore, but sympathy doesn’t provide a shelter. Empty dreams are held together [...]

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Fall Images Shadows echo with the smell of sap. Horse chestnuts get more attention than new TV shows. The river stones ignore the shifting of the seasons. –October 11, 1979

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Washed-up Rock Stars They play in halls they started out in, And wonder how their once rival group is just taking root in Utopia. They get sued for alimony, palimony, breach of contract and tax evasion. Get ulcers when their albums don’t reach platinum. They resort to sanity to change their image and pray for [...]

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