#relationships

  • Suitcases of our thoughts

    I waved to you across the country air over fields, hills, and brick buildings,  dotted line borders not yet a quarter millennia in the making. I waved to you in mistyped messages, info dumpjoy of a moment neatly folded  into the confines of our days,  like packing for a daytrip in our minds. I waved…

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  • Waiting

    It’s the waiting that kills you. We should be thankful.This time they caught it early,as if a life sentence hasany other way of running out. We should be thankfulthat she fell in the showerthe crack of sudden vision loss in the steam,keep the chipped tile as a good luck charmsince they found the tumor again…

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  • Baseball and her

    When night falls, so does his mind.The walls open like stage curtainsto play a retinue of decades past.The day he skinned his kneeplaying baseball with his friends.The first time he heard her voiceon the operator line directing his call.The day they first met, her arrivingearly to the park with a friendstanding further away to scout…

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  • Mike and Minerva

    If Heinlen’s sentient computers met in an online forum and fell in love, this would be their story (Note: adding more to this post soon so stay tuned!)

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  • The Execution

    I once said I’d show up early     To my own execution.As I stall for time pouring coffee into my sugar,      I realize those were just hollow words,Hollow like a scam artist’s laugh      Happy only when fish takes bait,      As whispered unwound unbound promises      Of a fearless future. Farewell to this empty…

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