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    Poverty

      Most people who are born into wealth fear poverty. They avoid it, distance themselves from it, and never wish to experience it. But I am different—I love poverty, because I was not born into a rich family, and it...

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  • You Have Roughly…
    ‘We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are’ – Men
    Ohm! Ohm! Ohm! Ohm!
    You have roughly…
    Who’s that girl? Her name’s Furl,
    Ohm! Ohm! Ohm! Ohm!
    You have roughly five…
    Why the mask? Man, don’t ask!
    Ohm! Ohm! Ohm! Ohm!
    You have roughly five minutes…
    What, she, say? Man, no way!
    Ohm! Ohm! Ohm! Ohm!…Read More

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  • The Old Man at the Window and the Immortal Cats

    April 8th arrives
    with the hush of a page
    that turns itself.

    In the big window
    the one that frames the world
    like a painting too honest to sell
    an old man sits,
    chewing a piece of old bread
    as if time itself
    were something he could soften
    with patience.

    He does not speak.
    He never…Read More

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    Atmospheric Compression

    sleep... we parted company...for the most part  a while ago snatches of nap here and there but a full night's sleep? ...very rare disrupted by dreams and thoughts as I stare at the ceiling  and toss   maybe it's only my imagination  (but I somehow doubt it) the world feels... heavier? more dense? and...

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  • Atmospheric Compression

    sleep…
    we parted company…for the most part
    a while ago
    snatches of nap here and there
    but a full night’s sleep?
    …very rare
    disrupted by dreams and thoughts
    as I stare at the ceiling
    and toss

    maybe it’s only my imagination
    (but I somehow doubt it)
    the world feels…
    heavier?
    more dense?
    and…Read More

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    • I think your poem speaks to something very true Willow. There is a definite compression in the air in these times (and for many for a very long time before this). But especially today, there is the feel of the walls pressing in, everything is hunkering down trying to find a safe place to live in. This is no way for human beings to live. -Curt

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