• cleanup

    ...pain washes
    pain washes
    pain washes
    pain washes
    pain washes
    pain washes...

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  • feast

    paper tiger encouragements
    feast on the ghosts of we
    entangled in our entitlements
    tethered by our broken dreams

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  • down that back hall

    woman posing with music keyboard
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    we are all piano fingers
    now, tickling ivory hours
    slipping to oblivion
    down that back hall

    dust mote whispers ears
    in the golden autumn sun
    twining fingers under shadow
    down that back hall

    the notes faded ivory
    lace dusted yellowed
    photo moments slip away
    down that back hall

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  • Half-penny thoughts | 29aug25

    Takes one to know one, absolutely… But I’ve grown weary of the cynic.

    It’s easy to be a cynic. It takes almost no effort at all to be one. Decide that the world is shit and there’s simply nothing that can be done about the matter. People who have a more positive spin on things are Dreamers and Sheeple. Those “in on the secret” walk into an echo chamber of like-minded cynics and we see a devil hiding under every bed. And, in that echo chamber, we tell each other that the devils are in cahoots and they are out to get us. To make matters worse, those devils are also between the sheets and every bed has multiple sheets and, just because those sheeple can’t see them doesn’t mean the devils aren’t at work making the world even more shit than it was to begin with. In secret. Then we remind each other: if you are not with us, you must be against us and you have therefore self-identified as The Enemy.

    What claptrap.

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  • For better or worse

    standing stones
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    The old notes I found have gotten my thoughts pointing back in the direction of those kinds of studies again. This is probably obvious to some of you. While it can be difficult to find reliable, scholarly texts on the matter, I find that I learn something new almost every time I read the few texts out there that are supported by scholarship. And there is always those untapped journal articles out there that are less about meeting sales quotas than they are about serious scholarship.

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