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Human
Let's hold out hope for the crippled. / Hope for the crippled? / No thanks, this crip doesn't need your hope.
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Vote Of Confidence
I was three years out of high school and finally getting / the chance to grow up. I’d been ready since before / graduation day. Everybody in the world was certain
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Welcome Home
The television is on with the football game / blaring from the speakers with people crowded around / screaming out plays, and insults. Jumping up and down until
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America's National Teenager
The envelope was red, white and blue just like the flag / Betsy Ross spent days with bleeding fingers over so many / years ago. It was addressed to me from an unknown sender.
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Bubbles
It begins with a meltdown / Talk me down. Let me cry it out. / A kind word. The inquisition.
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The Companion
Metal contraption, I dutifully climb into you each day as the sun rises / and drive your clunky frame through the hills of a crowded campus / to face the questions and stares of the kindhearted and heartless.
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Rainy Day Adventures
The fire for learning Plato’s philosophies and the history hidden / behind the Iron Curtain had burned us out. We were restless, sleepy / and thirsty. Mischievous by nature, we were sick of going nowhere.
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Happy Fathers Day
My earliest memories of you / are leaving to work somewhere else / and coming home again, drunk.
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Sestina
Life comes in increments of sixteen weeks where each week she composes list after list. / Wastes away inside with textbooks and tests instead of spending the day in the sunshine. / Her mind wanders, up and away, into her dreams where she lives a different sort of life.
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Fatal Attraction
The crushing silence of the ocean. / The harsh screeches of the gulls. / Long beaches stretched wide and open;
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