Category: Confessions
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The mountains in Albuquerque are to the east. In most places I’ve lived, they were to the west. I always found that to be a bit strange, but maybe it’s not. But I was on the east side of Albuquerque, close to the mountains, when I was suddenly struck with…
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+ Albuquerque, Cocoa Puffs, French Fries, Gallup, Indian School Road, Milky Way, Nob Hill, Pharmacy, Sandia Mountains+
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I hate summer. Summer is a battle for me. I am like opposite bear and want to hibernate May through August – in a cave of ice, with a frosty mug of A and W root beer, my laptop, and really good internet service.
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+ Beach Volleyball, Convertible, Greg Brady, Heat, Iceland, Lake Michigan, Root Beer, Snow, Summer, Tennessee, Thanksgiving, Wisconsin+
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Empty roads beckon wanderlust, Heaven torn asunder by the sun
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Halfway through the memories on haunted hill, halfway through the turnstiles stuck in glue, sun burns red, sun burns blue, a wind sick hotel in desert hue
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I can’t say anything anymore, it doesn’t fit through the walls — the sun paper is too thin over the windows, and no one knows I’m still alive inside. There is no fortune to be had behind these LA eyes of sparkling white and bright. And I saw a window…
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And there were orange baptized bullets lodged in a wall of sea salt adobe and skull, a hard skull of architecture burned and bandaged the sun was far too bright as I dug them out with the tip of a knife and I was suddenly cursing the violence of Southwest…
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She came down from the sky on a glowing escalator and I waited for her in the parking lot. But sometimes I think she was maybe there all along, maybe my entire life and I just didn’t see her because they can be invisible. She looks human. She has all…
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Most days of the week, I watch an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants with my 20-year-old stepson. It’s his favorite show, and he’s loved it since he was a child. I think he knows the title of every episode and what season it first aired.
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+ Autism, Danny Phantom, Dustin Hoffman, John Deere, Power Outage, Rain Man, SpongeBob, Storms, Tom Cruise, Toronto+
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Two years straight and it still feels like the very first time I touched her. We drifted off clutching each other tight. Then we turned to sleep, our asses touching, the warmth of her back like a campfire. I listened to her breathe as I looked up at the purple…
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+ Amarillo, Book Store, Catfish, Emotional Strife, Feckless, Kerouac, Love, Marillion, Nashville, Ocean Water, Volcano, Waffles+
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Why is it now 10 million memories later That you appear When I feel my hand empty In a moment of all alone In a moment of going to shore What is this history haunting You restless in my sheets Of dreams On the aeroplane I go To another city,…
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CEREAL AFTER SEX 