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‘Thinking thoughts of joy and Happiness overflowing with love I am living the best life Rating it all on the stars The hundred thousand million of them Year on year adding more. This is what life is all about Happy … Continue reading →

The plans I had, baby a man can only dream A life time it seemed Now, I sit here and wonder, what if I guess letting go was your special gift No remorse for my feelings I see At the … Continue reading →

Performed by Val Cole READ POEM: I am waiting for shrink-wrapped facts to fall from the bellies of planes while gators slide across water and insects roar. I am waiting for a country-western singer without a pickup, for a horse … Continue reading →

Performed by Val Cole Read Poem: Leroy my neighbor had some lottery luck But he went off and blew it all on a big old monster truck Now he can’t afford to drive it The gas cost too much Leroy’s … Continue reading →

The Note Pinned to my Heart Reads…, by Mark Kirkbride I have been struck by lightning, twice, once in the neck, once in the Trossachs. I crawled out of a crash with whiplash and made a bleeding, limping dash across … Continue reading →

Young girls are what you seem to deem, Smooth, unaware of their pristine. Flat to bone, spines forming rocky paths, Easy footstools for you to pass. No weeds have grown forth to block their kingdoms, So you fantasize at night, … Continue reading →

Forget this mask, it can wait it out In a cedar box, wrapped in furs, It only gathers strength unseen Buried, it might sprout Might send up concentric rings of shoots like a circle of whips lost in the forest … Continue reading →

Lowing, she is jolted. Free roaming once, now branded “Triple SSS” ranch. She masticates new grass, Her bell clanging a song she longs to escape. Up in San Francisco, the young flourish, workforce warriors Pray like hell to survive, to … Continue reading →

THE SEA 1. The faint chirp of rubbing balls -empty basins of fearful eyesfor that engulfed by the foam, the roar of the sea the howl of the water. Force. 2. How he gets mad how the man howls when … Continue reading →

If it’s any comfort to you The sun and the moon will continue to fill the sky, Day and night If it brings you peace Your despair will not cease the incessant flow of all rivers and streams, bodies of … Continue reading →