Monthly Archives: September 2009

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I’m a peninsula in an ocean Of salty currents and bloody noses, And the taste of blueness, brine and roses Lingers and halts the uvular motion: It just dangles there, swelling and shrinking, According to how sick I get—too much! Sometimes, I want … Continue reading

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Let’s start this indagation with “Wide Right,” And decades slide by like a carousel But before arousal, before the well Had dried and flooded, had darkened alight: I was Floridian, and football mine, Whether college, pro, or high school, I lived T… Continue reading

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A concerted burst from the mind in love, With a job or a notion of duty, Is what I crave, from below or above, Heaven or hell grant this power to me: Two worlds opposed converge in a moment, And passion of placement ensues in space, Wherein right … Continue reading

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I scrape the sides of time with a spoon so, Tinny, so shiny, that the hours change, And become epochs entirely. Oh, Love with your dangers your length and your range: From sun to sun, from squint to squint, I feel This power enter me and leave me … Continue reading

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The beauty inside, it gets no older, While our minds and flesh corrode and deform Our image of self from foot to shoulder, Is stripped from our chest, as we must perform: Since the mind enslaves on an endless stage, Making life travail, a work of … Continue reading

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In Vindication of the Jack of all Trades

In the section about “Specialization” (presumably within a capitalist economy), my 11th grade Economics textbook hammered home its point about the effectiveness of specializing with a phrase that I will never forget: “While the Jack of All Trades … Continue reading

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