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Waiting for Wailers
I’ve been slow on catching the Jamaican legends in concert. Haven’t caught the Skatalites. Flaked out on Jimmy Cliff. Got lazy in Marcia Griffiths. Avoided Toots and the Maytals. It’s fitting then, that the legends are slow in getting to me. I’m sitting in Ruby downtown right now, waiting for The Wailers to load in [...]
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leap smile
Let the world tickle my heart Let my body ride tall in the saddle Let my life’s work be enough Let the dangerous maidens speak first Let no walls emerge from within Let tenderness find it’s footing Let me leap all smiles into reality’s abyss ~ adapted/inspired by Chogyam Trungpa, master if crazy wisdom
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State of the night
We have run out of money, so we are no longer materialists. We have run short on time, so we’ve turned our phones into typewriters. Typewriters that don’t write. We have lost patience with conflicts that never touched us. We’ve banished those from our minds. So, death accrues off-map. January is a stream of hope [...]
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‘My ego is a fucking Stalin, and a romantic one at that.’
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Truthpicker
Be not devastated, for brutal truths are not the heart’s sullen funerals, but the truthpicker’s only ticket. pick pick pick, my friends, pick pick
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Where are you, South Dakota?
I want to string up all my license plates. My SD tags are missing. Prognosis: devastated.
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View from my bathtub
Soaking out the soreness and pondering a piece on postmodernism shared by some friends. Firebug pulsing through speakers, my toilet freshly cleaned, the most optimistic I’ve felt about my writing in a good 13 months. So my advice for temporary relief is clean your bowl, light enough cinnamon candles to burn down a Cinnabon, soak [...]
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Marilyn on Riverside
Another reason to love my neighborhood.
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Tearing down a tree
At River Square Park in Spokane. These guys used safety hooks to latch onto next highest rung as they climbed. They’re probably about 35 or 40 feet up at this point.
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