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Creative Writing OutLoud Podcast
If your eyes are too tired for reading, let your ears do the work with these readings of poetry and fiction written by me and Julisa Wilson, read by Alexander Smith on this Creative Writing Outloud podcast. Read more
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Violent Love
I wish I could tell you the things I’m thinkingBut then I’d have to make violent love to youOr pretend I hadn’t spokenOr pretend that I was jokingOr pretend I was talking to somebody elseAnd I’d still have to make violent love to you Read more
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Shenandoah Sketchbook
One hundred years ago today, August 25, 1916, Woodrow Wilson signed The Organic Act which created the US National Park Service within the Department of the Interior. There were 35 National Parks at that time, beginning with Yellowstone National Park, which was established on March 1, 1872 by Ulysses S. Grant “as a public park Read more
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The Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Some people hate the Olympics. They think it’s a waste of time and energy. Some even think that a gathering of people representing 205 countries should be concerned with more important matters like global warming or human trafficking or unequal distribution of resources. But there is something encouraging to me about all these countries getting Read more
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So Long
So long to friends wild and weirdAnd to desperate antics and pleasSo long to waking up in strange placesWith our pants around our kneesSo long to visionary realmsTo mirrors that live in the cloudsTo laughing at suckers who work for a livingAnd know how to blend in a crowdSo long to friends crazy and crampedTo Read more
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The Best Way To Get Old
Who’s to say why peopleDo the things they do?Say the things they say?Feel the things they feel?Who’s to sayWhat’s the best wayTo get old?I’ve lost exuberanceBut I’ve gained perspectiveI’ve lost staminaBut I’ve gained perseveranceI’ve lost strengthBut I’ve gained fearlessnessI’ve lost yearsBut I’ve gained precious daysI lost anger and I gained hopeThen I lost hope Read more
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