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So that today’s date, October 11, 2010, doesn’t pass unnoticed, I wanted to pass along the word that it is National Coming Out Day, a day in which gays and lesbians are encouraged to take the leap of faith and share the most intimate fact…
the law in the helicopter
spots our blue pickup
and we hear the distant siren
of the highway patrol
being vectored in
I watch a lot of TV. A lot of TV. Especially during baseball season. When the season ends, or the White Sox are eliminated, I turn to basketball. Pro basketball. Bulls basketball. I used to say that I could live without the dish if only…
It’s deer season on Coburn Mountain. If it’s not officially deer season, then it’s close. I know this because for the last two hours my neighbors have been reenacting the Battle of the Somme in their backyards, fine-tuning the sights on their high-powered rifles. After…
Patrick and I had barely settled in at a table on the far left of the room, with a good view of the stage and a clear path to the john, when the waitress stepped over from the bar. “Hi, guys! What can I get…
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From a Jason Francisco review (@ArtsCriticATL.com) of Michael David Murphy’s new photography show in Atlanta: As a band around the top of the room, like a crown molding made of letters, Murphy has inscribed these words: This is a picture I did not take of…
Once in the psychiatrist’s office, Tomas began to describe the events leading up to the 14th. He had been suffering from auditory hallucinations since his mother died. He was very close to his mother. He was the youngest of all of their children, and was probably the spoiled one. When she died, he went off the deep end, and the Voice began to tell him to kill his father.
While no one can dispute the legitimate concern for following transfers of large sums of money from one international organization to another, we should keep in mind that Colonel Oliver North doesn’t work for the Thomas Merton Center or the Animal Liberation Front.
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I surely do admire the attitude
meat on the bones
carriage, courage
and overall live physical presence
of women not my wife
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