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XTC and Days
Broke out XTC’s “Oranges and Lemons” from back in ’89 earlier this week as the weather called for something that wasn’t my latest in the car, the slog of old school Deep Purple, in all their iterations. Now for reference, I don’t listen to music any longer except in the car, 25 minutes at a… Continue reading
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Star Speckled Black Brighter Days (prosery)
This week Kim brings us a prosery idea at dVerse Poets, a 144 word piece of prose to include one line from a poem or song. In this case, a line from Dereck Walcott’s “Dark August” …“I would have learnt to love black days like bright ones” ////////////////////////////////////////// Star Speckled Black Brighter Days Great grandfather’s… Continue reading
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Orange Quarantine (song re-visit)
Spent the weekend doing nothing (holy crap! really?! that’s new … shut up m’fr!) one new post and then just eyes and headphones down to some old stuff, a bit of a re-set if you will as it seemed necessary. Re-read a lot of old things just to remind myself that I wasn’t totally crazy… Continue reading
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Cherry Door Thrift Store (poem)
In faded graying thought impossible to escape mirror laments hidden beneath a yawning ballcap back creaked cracked years bent brim broken just right banked, bowed, earned right ballcap to whisper right disguise I pull down tight . And a past fedora bought for haggled quarter in a giggling college thrift store haunt spirited of hanging… Continue reading
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Same Stuff, Different Birthday
Well the fourth … hold on … no, fuck you ad (freakin’ calendar phone apps) keep holding … you know what, let me just turn this over old school instead on a wall with a tack, oh hello July, you look like a younger Grayson (he was a cat, a very special cat) … …… Continue reading
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Baby General’s Golden Black Heart’s Band / Sky’s Orange When You’ve Got Blind Friends – (Song Revisit)
(originally posted to my Attic Blogspot June, 2019) ////////////////////////////////////////// Yes, I know I have re-posted this one a few times since the initial posting but listening to it again, earlier this week, I realized it could be new right now (just minus the “two plus years ago today” opening line) as it’s like we’re living… Continue reading
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Standin’ At The Edge Of The World (the devil & me) (song revisit)
From February of last year … ///////////////////////////////////////// February 24, 2024 A year or so ago an old WVU friend, Rob, posted on Facebook a little minute of him just pluckin’ away on guitar, a quick instrumental, and, on hearing it, I thought “Heck, I could, should, write a few words to this” So I did.… Continue reading
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The Stone
He tripped on a stone before impassable waters, a small one, kicked it in frustration, anger The stone then grew twice, three, four, no, almost five times its size … but was still a small stone He picked it up, impressed, apologized, gave it a name and tossed it across the waters ahead and it… Continue reading
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5:39 am
Now this is kinda exciting, not really but kinda, like hearing that “winner” sound at the Deli when Sandy runs your lottery ticket and you realize you’ve maybe gained 20 bucks back on the hundreds you’ve spent over the last 3 or 4 months trying to grab a dream (you know it isn’t more than… Continue reading
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