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The House Where Sorry Goes to Die (opens the original)
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The House Where Sorry Goes to DieThe room is black velvet and smoke.You sit and the candle between you leans, like it’s trying to get away.The smile comes first.And the smile is a door that only opens one way.You step through it and it locks behind you.The voice speaks in hymns and accusations.Low, like a preacher at a funeral for someone who isn’t dead yet.The world is wrong and it started with you.This is the weather, and you are the flood.There is no mirror in here.Only eyes.And in them you s
The Devil Meant to Break Me, Heaven Meant to Make Me (opens the original)
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The Devil Meant to Break Me, Heaven Meant to Make MeHe came on a Wednesday. Not with horns or sulphur, but with my own voice, wearing my father’s coat. Sat at the kitchen table at 3am like it paid rent. Smelled of wet newspaper and the lie I told in 1988. “You don’t believe,” it said, pouring bourbon into my coffee cup with my own hand. “You never did. Christ is a bedtime story for children afraid of the dark. And you, my friend, are the dark.”He showed me my faith like a dead bird. Held it up b
Tuesday With Marianne (opens the original)
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Tuesday With MarianneMarianne keeps her curtains half-drawnso the light comes in like an apology.She has a phonograph and three Nina Simone records.One of them is cracked but she plays it anywaybecause the skip sounds like someone knocking.We don’t talk about the last ten years.We talk about bread.About the man downstairs who feeds pigeons.About whether the moon is lonelyor just likes being far away.She pours wine into teacups.She says, “The world is heavy today.Let’s set it down for an hour.”<p
Run Like the Sky is Coming Down (opens the original)
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Run Like the Sky Is Coming DownThe sky came down at 8:46 am.Not in pieces. Not in rain.In a roar that had teeth.In a sermon with no God in it.I was standing on concrete when the concrete decided it was tired of being solid.And a voice behind me, older than me, said two words:Run. Now.So I ran.Past the coffee going cold.Past the shoes with nobody in them.Past the white paper, falling like snow that had forgotten how to be clean.Past a man saying a prayer and a woman saying a name.Behind me the ci
Poetry Reading on 9/11 (opens the original)
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Friday September 11th I will be doing a 30 minute poetry reading at The Vintage Beano Vino Lounge in Medford,NY. If you’re in the area or interested come down. The evening which will include music by guitarist Fred Hintze will have a 9/11-Americana theme. Any questions feel free to message me. Oh and the food is great there too! 😊<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6SGL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-med
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