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• "saying goodbye"

  September 23, 2009

  • I always was reluctant to visit the sick or the dying and probably superstitious about saying goodbye. There's a really good line from a Dylan song that says it's too good a word and so the persona bids fare well. The  other day I started visiting a friend. She is at a home for the aged. I have trouble understanding what she struggles to speak from a mouth that is no longer able to chew. I ...
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• The Thing That Should Hold my Attention...Doesn't

  August 6, 2009

  • Composition compulsion...I oppose obsession, although not the perfume. That might simply be due to Kate Moss. Do I have or hold a fixation? According to the definition, perhaps cigarettes. Still, smoking ain't such a danger to society. Not in contrast to violence, natural disasters, and casual accidents... I do believe the thing that should hold my attention, as a writer, is the ...
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