Fair winds and following seas

Geography that can move around independently is an exotic creature and the creature I get to live on is a 158 ft. gaff topsail schooner. My bunk is behind the galley and is shaped like an abused rhombus and has no closet. Of course, I bring too many clothes. I get rid of all my [...]

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Only the lonely can play

I miss my car radio. This is before Cd’s but when cassette tapes were the bomb. I had lots but not one in my car, even when I had my car. I miss driving but the bus has given my white girl past a bit o’shakin up. I ride the bus and listen to girls [...]

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self portrait/s

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The night will never come

My shift ends finally as I drag the enormous trash can outside and attempt to heave its contents, bottles and all, over the side of the dumpster. I smell like beer and whiskey and while in theory that sounds kinda sexy its really not. My current love is at the bar, Chris and he helps [...]

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That really can’t be the correct time

I have to set my alarm clock on its loudest setting or else I can will myself to ignore it despite placing it so far away that I have to actually rise from bed in order to turn it off. My clothes are found by feeling around in the dark and smelling them to make [...]

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I trip up the curb because I am looking at the sky

And while I have had these legs, this brain, this body for quiet sometime it is still a confusion as to how and why it works. My heavy solid brass heart on my key chain bounces against the back of my hand as I climb the cement stairs to my front door. Through the double [...]

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