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In the Land of Milk and Honey when you die they think it's funny

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Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come
Birthday
January 01
Title
The One True
Company
An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.
Bio
Quit your snooping, bitch.

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JULY 3, 2011 5:50AM

"My wife's fat as a cow!"


"It's my wife. She's..."

"She's what?"

He was sitting at the bar as if in a foreign country, wearing his pinstriped suit like a uniform against the elements. His hair was measured and pristine, demarking his good graces with society's mores. He sat like a banker who'd never explored/…

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JULY 1, 2011 11:50AM

Darian The Dreamer (Repost)

JUNE 28, 2011 5:26AM

The Human Story


From beginning to end there's a thread to the story of mankind. It's an ongoing narrative that connects all human endeavors, from our dreams to our nightmares. It's called the Stream Of Love. It is relentless and unstoppable in its fury, beyond all measure and comprehension. And in… Read full post »
Hope you bastards are happy now


I don't want to sit here and say I hate you people. Wait a minute. Yes, I do! You bastards have put me out of work. See, I used to be a satirist but now those days are gone. I turn on/… Read full post »

JUNE 24, 2011 3:33AM

Deformities: Mine And Thine


I only knew she had moved down to San Antonio and now that's where I was too. We'd both lived before in the halfwit conservative junk hole known as Amarillo, a place where I was always ashamed of living. I didn't want to have to admit living there/…

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JUNE 22, 2011 2:27AM

The Judgement

"And it really doesn't matter
"If I'm wrong I'm right
"Where I belong"

-Paul McCartney, 'Fixing A Hole"


I was out walking my favorite secret trail overlooking the luxurious river houses from bluffs on high. Actually, it's not really a trail, I just found a way to the cliff's/…

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"Who's brought to justice?
"Why everyone, of course."


Who am I?

I'm a star. Dazzling crowds from coast to coast. I'll display my artistry for all to see. And that would be enough. Just sharing my love. No more lying. No more dying. Is there really a God? One that/…

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Whatever you do, don't tell her your name is "Tim". She shoots people named Tim. Just ask the waiter back in Silver City. Poor bastard. Such a high price to pay - walking with a limp the rest of his life - for having been thusly christened by/…

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JUNE 14, 2011 5:23AM

Alice Asks: "What Is Real?"


Everyone laughed at the way he was. Nobody asked how he got that way.

"The sun rises in the west!"

"The world is flat!"

"Killing us will save us!"

This from a man who once was the Village Brain. The village was a place of high commerce and good living. Everybody/…

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Darth James throwing an elbow on Jedi Dirk

It was the biggest game in Dallas Mavericks history to date. Win this and they go up 3 games to 2 over the dreaded Miami Heat. If there ever was a case a basketball good vs. basketball evil, this was it.… Read full post »

It's amazing how sometimes people that merely brush by us in life can leave a mark that never leaves. I remember heading to the Dallas Museum of Art years ago seeking solace, lost in my life. And there she was in a sun dress, the absolute picture of perfection, flashing/…

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JUNE 4, 2011 8:17PM

A Dissection Of My Previous Post

"Saaaaaarrrrrraaaaaaah!"

"Saaaaaarrrrrraaaaaaah!"


I heard a boy call out this name while walking down the street, his voice like an air raid siren: a high pitch on the first part, a low pitch on the last. I don't know who Sarah is, but I do know she is lost to him. I/…

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JUNE 3, 2011 2:44AM

Sixties Man


This is the kind of report that reaps men's souls. Where you need to lay everything out: the real reasons, the given rationale, and finally the insanity. In the military, before the evil is done the truth is told. Then it's buried and jealously guarded until the final day when… Read full post »

"Oh no she di'int!"

"Yes, she did! She told me she's been living off another man's feelings for her for years."

"Oh no she di'int!"

"He said he loved her, that she was his fantasy, his dream, his other half. She was who he was looking for his whole life. But she/… Read full post »


"She said she's dead."

"Dead? Dead how? Dead tired?"

"Just dead. She said she's dead like an eggplant, dead like a cantaloupe."

"Dead like a cantaloupe? What kind of freaky talk is that?"

"I don't know, that's what she said."

"But that makes no sense. She's going to kill herself like a fruit?"

"Why/… Read full post »


"...no, no, no, no, no, no, no..."

Those were Butch's final words as he looked up at me with his eyes saying, "Tell me this is not happening." I don't think I'll ever be the same.

Nobody ever dies like in the movies where it's all nice and neat and the person's/…

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"It's good to live in violent times."

So sneered a smiling Sansaki, a bloodied ronin (freelance samurai) both feared and loathed - and both of which he considered attributes. In an age that would come to be known as "The Era Of Warring States", Sanaski had found a home. To him,/…

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MAY 18, 2011 11:04AM

So Newt Is...Scarface??

Separated at birth?

"I only tell you once. Don't fuck me, Tony. Don't you ever try to fuck me."
-Alejandro "the Snake" Sosa, South American drug dealer (fiction)

"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
-Ronald Reagan, Central American drug dealer (non-fiction)

Rarely am I…

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MAY 17, 2011 8:05AM

"Have A Potted Plant - And Die!"

Nobody understood: I didn't want to die.


They said at the employment agency they'd give me one more week, out of pity. But no more. Then I was going to be at the end of my rope. That was the longest week of my life. It was like a countdown to…

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MAY 11, 2011 12:30AM

The Anvil Of The Sun

"My head splits in two
"On the anvil of the sun;
"Waters of the desert
"Belong to all and yet to none."

Godard's "Week End" was full of speechifiers

Some mornings you wake up and you just want to kill somebody.

The witch is dead! Problems solved!

"Bin Laden has been killed! At last our wars have meaning! We can start to become safe again because, yes, we really can kill everyone who's a threat to us. And even though we say we cannot, we are going to relax now./… Read full post »
APRIL 28, 2011 8:32AM

Don't Tase Me, Bro!


He was always the Nice Boy - and he always wanted it kept that way. "I want to do what's good for my community!" he excitedly told everyone he met, sure of the approval he'd obligingly receive. So he did those things considered Good and Honorable, he did what "ought to/…

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In honor of the passing of the great Sidney Lumet, Turner Classic Movies had a mini marathon of films he'd directed. I caught the last part of "The Hill" and it had lost none of its power from the first time I'd seen it many years ago. Following that was/…

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APRIL 26, 2011 2:31AM

The Trial Of Harry Homeless

Late for my court date

They kept me as they arrested me: buck naked. I sat in the courtroom as the only person who could feel the wood chair directly on his ass. I felt sure I was an historic first in that category. I end up pioneering too many/…

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APRIL 25, 2011 10:46AM

A Haiku In Clear Waters

Spring blossom floats by;
Eyes peer over castle wall,
Poetry's prison.