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There’s a million ways to feel old; losing hair, memory, creaking joints when you stand up, shaking your cane at young whippersnappers speeding past you, or pretty much anything that involves eit...

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It’s been a strange couple of days, not in a bad way, or, even objectively a strange way. Subjectively my head has been a strange thing to have on my neck. I wrote a couple of orphans. Wait, no, ...

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Ever since the accident, Charlie, the Bass man, has been drinking his whiskey through a straw. There’s a cigarette burning on the piano but no ones on the stage but the house lights and someone’s...

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Weird shit has been happening with the electronics around here. A few mornings ago, long before the sun would have come up here daylight savings or no, the doorbell went off and off and off. Disc...

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I worked in Juvenile corrections in the State of Oregon from 1984 until 1990. My experience has the bias of the geographic location and the time, not the bias most people would consider, or, rath...

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I’ve been trying hard to write. How? By writing. It’s a bright day here in Mid Michigan, looks as much like April as it does November; barren trees, wet farmland. I wandered out into the sticks a...

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Inspiration is a bitch. See? That sentence is uninspired. We both know what it means but it’s nonsense, imprecise. So, sometimes what I do is just write and if I write long enough or short enough...

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Most of the cats that you meet on the street speak of true love Most of the time they’re sitting and crying alone One of these days they know they better get going Out of the door and down on the...

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A beautiful autumn day outside, here, in the lower center palm of the mitten. The sky is a deep corn flower blue, clear as Lake Superior, and the riot of tall and varied trees waving their orange...

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I’m not really a very difficult person, though, I suppose that depends on who you ask, and with all due respect, perhaps generously due, those other motherfuckers lie. I’m only difficult when the...

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Late 95 early 96 things were not looking good for my fiancé at the time and myself. To stay on point I’ll just leave it there, though the story is unusual and sad. She was finishing up a degree i...

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It’s early November and an election year. Americans seem tense and not the good kind of tense. I saw a facebook factory made post that said ‘I support law enforcement, use correct bathroom for my...

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A few days ago I was doing an actual Flash Friday flash, um, I guess that’d be two days seeing how this Sunday. My computer has been have increasingly frequent crisis of conscious and electricity...

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As a kid, like ten, I started reading time travel stories, like HG Wells the Time Machine, Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court (that one fucked me up) and Bradbury’s short story...

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I woke up from a stress dream a few minutes ago. I am so out of practice I didn’t even quite get that it was a dream for a minute, a second, however long that period of time in is when your consc...

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I know flashes are done, dead, over with. At least as an institution here on Prosebox, if they ever were. October was flash month. In the bad old days on that other journaling site, flashers love...

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I was thinking about something and my computer shut down. It’s been happening too frequently, though, most times it’s some kind of fucking upgrade or other. I stumbled across a can of air so I to...

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My little sister was in town the past few days. My little sister and, I think, fiancé. GF asked, I realize I don’t know for sure, but they are so very much law abiding citizens and they are livin...

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I might have waited too long to process stuff from the wedding. Two different levels of adrenaline and joy, and then almost a week to deescalate. My doctors office had a wild hair too, so I had t...

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So I’m in this gas station in Wyoming and I picked up some water and cigerettes (shut up, I’m quitting again). “Do you have American Spirit Blacks?” I swear you could hear gears spinning. “Um, wh...

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Some 2500 years ago democracy was conceived and implemented in Greece. Some 250 years ago Jeffersonian Democratic principles were conceived in an English colony and implemented a bloody decade la...

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Heh. This is like the bad old days. When you get a bit a teary eyed for OD you can go to facebook for your circular argument fix. For those who don’t know Alan Pedersen was Spoo on OD. I don’t ho...

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I keep writing, erasing and rewriting a toast in my head for my daughters wedding. When push comes to shove I’ll probably just wing it; a rehearsed toast sounds like a speech, and, no matter how ...

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I thought I had posted the thing below, I guess not. So I’ll tack it on at the bottom. Every decade of my life I have crossed this country at least twice by road and I can’t rightfully recall how...

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It doesn’t matter what kind of asshole you are, I’m going to try my absolute best to treat you with kindness and as much respect as I can manage, just don’t thank me for it. It’s not about me and...

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