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Last Anniversary

The white moon hangs full o’er distant traces My wannabe dreams cast by elation And so we were in two different places Most of the

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The Big Break

So I wave hello from the other side On the golden road nightmares often make Turn around with sim’lar color surprise Is this me thanking

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Atomic Birds

Alone i choose the ra’dio of my heart Picking up echoes of your distant song In cracks of thunder five seconds apart The rolling trains

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Circumscribed

Sifting through the rubble it’s plain to see Avoiding rifts we always stayed seated The very last thing you wanted to be But a “bad

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Super Blue Moon

Wednesday night on my couch dropping a dime On myself, circle, and diameter I got the syllables, I got the rhyme Still can’t nail iambic

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Poetry on Parade

I’ve written poetry for years, but had never read it aloud before this weekend. On Friday, I had an event at Esquina Chicago to celebrate

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Sober.

I used to have a drinking problem. I don’t think it ever elevated to the point of “alcoholism” and I don’t identify as an alcoholic,

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Digging in the Dirt

It’s been a helluva few years. I had a string of manic episodes, got divorced, lost my apartment of 25 years, and was diagnosed with

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Call the Pros

There are drawbacks to being able to do everything on a recording! I started appreciating the concept of collaboration only after the mid-2010’s when I

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Happy With What I’ve Got

Since I was a kid, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with fame. It’s been extra confusing for me because I’ve wrongly been conflating “fame” with

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