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Three Hundred Sixty Five
365 days ago I walked out the door forThe last timeAnd took the elevator down to the streetWe never really said goodbye 365 days have passed without a mealOnly a couple of snacksBriefInconclusiveLacking the necessary nutrients to feed a growing hunger 365 times the sun has come upWith you in my mindBefore I even had… Read more
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The Newest Circle of Hell
In the first place, I didn’t know hell had so many circles. I thought I’d visited all of them until my foot went through the floor. I don’t know how I wound up in this newest circle of hell, or why. I’ve been a good boy, haven’t I? Good enough anyway. There’s a guy sitting… Read more
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Review: The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips hits a little too close to home for me. Not that I’m beautiful, or a bureaucrat, but like the protagonist Josephine I feel trapped in a job and a world that make no sense, and that seem guided by mysterious and sinister forces. I sometimes wonder if my… Read more
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Happy Blogiversary
My name is Mike, and I’m a blogger. Two years ago today me and the Words & Music staff (I hope to have it tattooed one day) first dipped our wick in the blogosphere. One of the things I’ve learned blogs do best is making lists, and anniversaries are a good time to look back… Read more
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Review: Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro
Julie Fierro’s Cutting Teeth is a messy book in the best possible way. Like the time of life it so accurately and lovingly depicts, it is a wet story. The pages drip with tears, spit, snot, blood, wine, beer, the salty waters of Long Island Sound and the juices of sex that create those little… Read more
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20 Questions
Let’s play twenty questions: 1. On your way to work do you ever stop and wonder if you’ve gone the wrong way? 2. If you got off at the wrong stop? 3. If you took the wrong exit? 4. If it’s too late to go back? 5. If it’s too late to go forward?… Read more
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