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I'm just a parent, who listens to too much music, reads too many books, strives for more, & is trying to enrich his family. Be the wind in people's sails.
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Trust Fall (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWho do you trust? Hmm, how can I trust? Trust, when the person, the only person who is supposed to look after me poisons himself all day long with his cowboy killers and TV dinners. When I was forced at the age of ten to become an adult and take care of myself. Let's peak around to the other side of my family tree, the side in constant shade. Not a single person has been truthful to me. I'll concede, everyone has their own t
Joie de Vivre (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThere goes a smile brighter than the peak of the Luxor, on the face of someone who has always stopped to smell the roses; their personality mirroring the roots of a konjac, soaking in all of the nutrients that life has to offer. No one else can find the beauty in the droplets of water slowly rolling down a rose petal, after a torrential downpour like they can. They don’t see a broken down car on the side of the road, they se
The Barnstable County Blunder (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThey were on the express train to love every bone in their body aches when they were Apart Young love in Provincetown clam bakes at the Flagship you know Bourdain worked there she would strike up conversation the daring deipnosophist he would awaken his olfactory a timid taciturn He a solivagant drinking Lodi Chardonnay and lover of Leonard Cohen Silk She a narcissist making natural wine and listener of George Clinton Funk t
I have a semester and a half of college, so I understand Freud (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThanks for seeing me today Of course, I had a feeling you’d want to make time today. Uhh, you would not believe the fucking week I’m having I could imagine. Do you remember when they tried to flip the script on the “golden rule” Yes, treat others how they want to be treated. Yepp, my how quickly that’s been forgotten, thanks short-form media fuckin Zuck You’ve forgotten. Probably, but I
Bluffs (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedIn this Texas Hold’em game of life, I was dealt a seven-two offsuit, from a deck of coffee-stained and finger-oiled casino cards. How could I have the foresight when the smoke in the air from reserve cigarettes was so thick, I could not even see who I was playing at the table. The dealer was so obscured I’d faintly see hands flash through my peripheral laying down the flop, which is coincidentally what my childhood was. Boun
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