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Archives for July 17th, 2008

the word angel (poem)

Posted by  on Thursday, July 17th 2008     

[lang_en]the word angel could be revised as “a woman with wings.” you seduced me with the intensity of your dream a woman whose wings were broken she needed all of us to lift her body with the breath of our song I took water and pigment applied to paper the woman’s face her eye like [...]

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Gas Guzzling Gaffe

Posted by  on Thursday, July 17th 2008     

Gas just keeps going up and up. It’s crazy! What can we do? Grin and bear it? Eat less food to fill the tank? Not bloody likely. Won’t go hungry to feed that monster. Go to town less. Cut trips to once a month. Do everythin’ at once. A Band-Aid is all. Sure it’ll cut [...]

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