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back on my feet again

by kermitallica

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3 days ago

right round

this is what grief and depression do... i have been placed in a round room and told to set in a corner... 


Angela Her name was Angela, so named for her grandmother whom she never met. I remember her long black hair, how soft it was and how it shone like silver in the sunlight. Her name was Angela ...


3 days ago

take me home

i wrote this 26 years ago...  I went to my home town today, and took a drive. The place hadn’t changed much. the stores where I learned how to be a clever thief are still there, and the house...


5 days ago

may 23

holidays mean nothing... they represent a high wire act.... they bounce and wiggle as i struggle... to the left i fall and land wrist first on a pile of razor blades... to the right i fall d...


night time is easy... day time is hard... daylight hides nothing... no secrets... all lies... night time holds me... cradles me in its chilled embrace.... the rain gives me permission... ...


7 days ago

what you want

if i were free... there is a cabin in the Tennessee mountains that looks over a lake of crystal blue... orange and amber skies try to hide behind cotton candy pink and purple clouds... the t...


May 06, 2026

Toy soldier

I wanna love... I wanna live... I still have so much left to give... Now I'm alone in a world of gloom... Abandoned here in my little room... So much water underneath that bridge... Water...


May 06, 2026

sun down

i want so many things... age... disability... crippling mental states... for me it is too late...


May 04, 2026

endless love

The Wonderful Love of Manny Feek and Mercy Bow Coo It was the love story of all love stories. The tale of Manny and Marcy spanned all time in the Valley and was the standard that all love woul...


May 04, 2026

all dead

Wes Hammelton In the year of '39 on a frosty Latter Year morning a young woman on a scrap of sail, drifted in on the morning tide, the only soul to return from the loss of the Annie Day. The o...


May 04, 2026

'39

The loss of the Annie Day The Sea of Despair can be a cruel. There are times of the year when no man would set out upon her. Mariners would tell stories of how the angry sea would rise out of ...


May 03, 2026

final acclaim

Her hair was not long or short, but just right and full of rich brown curls. She was not uncommonly beautiful, nor was she comely, but just plain enough to be pretty in her own way. She was not...


May 03, 2026

mull of kintyre

There was a little girl, who lived in the passes of the Valley who loved to whistle, and you could hear her whistling all day long. In her youth, the Village had just been settled and the people...


May 01, 2026

private eyes

humans are multiple organisms... we have a unique ability to be whomever we want to be... for a desired audience... i myself used to have several faces i used to keep in a jar by the door... ...


April 28, 2026

21st century man

now that it can be seen... my real work is in my other book... The Man from Mayberry Hill... its an actual book, not this rambling self pity stuff...


April 27, 2026

i fought the law

death... its a participation award, that's been tuned into THE lifetime achievement award... i passed a funeral procession today because i didn't have the gas to set and watch a group of lov...


April 27, 2026

working in a coal mine

man is born to labor... from the cradle to the grave... and punished for his efforts... in order to behave... the world spins ever forward... ignorant to the machines new slaves... in a st...


April 24, 2026

Never comes the day

In the deap of night... When we are so frightfully alone... Have you ever wondered how many souls weap alone... We are never as alone as we think we are... We are never as close to the veil ...


April 24, 2026

talk to me

there does come a time... thoughts of sex are all you have... i never believed it to be true... not until the last days of you... April moves like a lazy river... cold and grey and uncarin...


April 19, 2026

talk to me

there does come a time... thoughts of sex are all you have... i never believed it to be true... not until the last days of you... April moves like a lazy river... cold and grey and uncaring...


April 18, 2026

behind blue eyes

theres more parts falling off faster than duct tape can put them together... if i do not post here within 3 weeks... there is no me to post... dont be sad... be relieved... i finally got t...


April 15, 2026

spirit in the sky

now i lay me down to sleep... i pray the lord my soul to keep... if i should die before i wake... clear my browser history...🤣


April 12, 2026

2 out of 3 aint bad

i was asked today: "Why did the chicken cross the road?" my response was not expected. "I dont know why. Nor do i care. i was born in  culture that if it was none of my business, i should ke...


April 10, 2026

baby i'm a star

not that long ago... i would strut myself upon the stage... in thunderous fury... in joy... in rage... in every color of the human condition... now i set and thumb through my catalog of me...


April 06, 2026

commercial interuption

three little old ladies were setting on a bench minding their own business when a flasher came up to them and did his thing... the first little old lady had a stroke... the second little old l...


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