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A mole’s life

Trump is killing me. I am dying beneath the weight of him. Since November 8 2016, things are gradually leaving me. My creative spark: gone. Any other kind of spark: gone. Abstract thinking: gone. My ability to read anything other … Continue reading

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atrophy

i am perpetually amazed, stunned if you want to know the truth, at how atrophied my powers of mindful wishful thinking have become. i’m trying everything. chanting. praying. lighting incense. fasting for a week. visualizing.  gazing at the sky. laying … Continue reading

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Room Number 7

i just returned home from my first piano lesson since the one lesson i took at the age of 8.       in Room 7 at the Old Town School of Folk Music. the teacher, a former punk rocker, … Continue reading

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The Journal of Falling Ice

as I sat on the train, commuting home from work, through a fake blizzard, i was overcome by motion sickness while reading an article from the peer-reviewed publication, The Journal of Falling Ice. I thought it might help if I … Continue reading

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