Category: Background
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Sweltered Selfie
What does one do when one awakes at one twenty-three in the morning and simply can’t sleep? Does one lie there and hope to drop off? Does one put some relaxing music on? Does one do that pile of ironing? Does one vacuum the rooms (or get the staff to do it anyway, when they…
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Fire Island: The Phoenix Within
With rocks that flow As clouds catch alight,Where the daytime’s darkenedAnd the night-time’s quite brightThe seas around are stirring someAs if they know of what is to come.The volcanic lands begin to stirThe air becomes thick, the horizon a blur,The lands spew flames high into the airThe waters hiss as if they care.Steam evaporates, Molten…
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Frazzled, Bedraggled, Rattled
This is how I feel right now,It isn’t how I lookThe temperature’s so hot right nowI couldn’t give a Friday afternoon Notice the hair. Not like mine. Not at all. Well, maybe, in parts. But who’s counting? And the hooter… reddened through all the sneezing. And the shirt… clingy like a second skin. And the…