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just about a year ago now, she called out of the blue on a thursday night, sheila did, and i had written her off, i didn't know what i was doing and as it turned out neither did she, both of us smack...
View ArticleRed At Night (Random Musings on a 45th Birthday)
"I was born in a town where the rivers run free On a January night when the cold winds freeze..."OK, I was born forty-five years ago, in a town where only one river runs free, but it is the mighty...
View ArticleLost, Lost, Lost My Mind: The Upper Hudson At Dusk
"I was feeling sad Can't help looking back Highways flew by Run, run away No sense of time Want you to stay Want to keep you insideRun, run, run away Lost, lost, lost my mind Like you to stay Want you...
View ArticleHydrof&@$ing Comes To New York
There's no safe space anymore, it seems.Even in the curtained dark of your bedroom on a quite weekend morning, the outrages come screeching at you, wearing you down and out.The kids slept while the...
View ArticleWithout A Trace
"I tried to get a good job with honest pay might as well join the mob the benefits are OK standing in the sun with a popsicle everything is possible with a lotta luck and a pretty face and some time to...
View ArticleListen, Dear Mother
"Listen dear mother I miss you the most and as I travel from coast to coast I feel your love and I feel your ghost listen dear mother I miss you the most Listen dear mother I miss you the most""Please...
View ArticleWhere Some Holy Spectacle Lies (Nine Horse, Baby)
"And you left with your head filled with flames And you watched as your brains Fell out through your teeth, push the pieces in place Make your smile sweet to see, don't you take this away I'm still...
View Articlefrustrations (everything dies, baby, that's a fact)
well i got a job and tried to put my money away but i got debts no honest man can pay so i drew what i had from the central trust and i bought us two tickets on that coast city bus well now everything...
View ArticleThe Worst Day Ever
The phone at my desk rang at about three, and I saw my home phone number come up; expected the call to have come from IT, but no matter, figured Sheila had rung in to ask me to pick up something or...
View ArticleThe Grieving Room: What Is Moving On?
A few weeks after Lauren died, a friend of mine showed up at the house with a tray of his well-regarded chicken parm.As we ate in the kitchen that afternoon, we talked about Lauren, about how tragic it...
View ArticleFeels Like Home
"If you knew how lonely my life has been And how low I've felt for so long. If you knew how I wanted someone to come along And change my world the way you've done... If you knew how much this moment...
View ArticleA Long Walk Home (pt. 2)
"My father said, 'Son, we're lucky in this town, It's a beautiful place to be born. It just wraps its arms around you, Nobody crowds you and nobody goes it alone You know that flag flying over the...
View ArticleSue Me, I've Changed My Mind On Operation Hilarity
I gotta admit, when kos announced the "let's get as involved as the law allows in repuke primaries and keep the frothy one, um, dripping along" campaign, aka "Operation Frothi-, er Hilarity," well,...
View ArticleHave You Ever Seen The Light?
"And I'm sick of all my judges So scared of what they'll find But I know that I can make it As long as somebody takes me home every now and then... Well have you ever seen the lights? Have you ever...
View ArticleI Know You're Out There
I feel ok. Sure, I know that's not what people say. Maybe they're wrong? Maybe you weren't on my side all along?I know you're out there. I know you're gone. You can't say that's fair. Can't you be...
View ArticleYour Perfume Like Cigarettes and the Sea
"and I know you're somewhere I always did feel it I got a new song you might never hear Goodnight Irene I got your trouble I read your letters You sent like a bomb and when you're gone we're all gonna...
View ArticleFired
I was a little hustler as a kid. My family didn't have a thing, we lived in the projects, we couldn't afford shit. I remember being in sixth grade, in Middle School chorus, going in to the Christmas...
View ArticleRunning On Empty
The brakes sounded so bad I didn't even notice the empty tank light lit up in yellow on the dashboard until I'd driven five miles out of town. The brakes sounded like an accident waiting to happen, all...
View ArticleKeep Dreaming, Kid
(A personal story about, among other things, the redemptive power of rock-and-roll music.)“have you seen my hands just look at ‘em shake and the song just keeps on beatin’ drop the needle again and I...
View ArticleThe Last Rose of Summer
"summers fade and roses die..."We busted out of Hanover, NH at the stroke of 9 a.m., a tank full of gas and a car full of four kids, fresh off a weekend with the in-laws. Gotta beat the Labor Day...
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