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thoughts while cutting my daughter's hair (poetry)

2013-05-21T20:33:46Z

Oh...she's going to look so beautiful when I'm done.....

Wait a minute......

I don't have a daughter.

What have I done?

March 26, 2013 (log)

2013-03-26T03:21:32Z

In case you were wondering, they came in yesterday
Three or four thousand
None with ribbons
Your mother would be ashamed
Your mother would be the blamed

It looks like you were about to notice and disapprove
Delivered, mishandled
No one told you
Your father would be proud
Your father is not allowed

Tell me again about what you wanted for your life
A simpler machine
Not with your dreams
You are the sum of many things
You are the son of everything

June 7, 2012 (event)

2012-06-07T04:08:03Z

Yet another classic radio moment. Let's step back in time to March 4, 2012.

Host (Mr. Blackmore): And we're back! Talking with us tonight is Rudolf Sayers, who claims to have invented a method for keeping people from falling asleep while texting. Mr. Sayers, you say this invention will save lives?

Guest (Mr. Sayers): Yes, Frank. You see, millions of people die each week from falling asleep while texting. Often they are driving or walking or operating heavy machinery and when you fall asleep doing those things, well, you're pretty much dead.

Host: Right you are, Mr. Sayers.

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June 1, 2012 (fiction)

2012-06-01T04:16:56Z

"Let's just go," she said.

And you did. Without a second thought. Without, for that matter, a first.

It had been that way since last spring, when you two met outside the library. You were coming out, she was dodging a cop. It was love at first convenience for her. She kissed you and that was it.

She moved in the next day.

And now, you both had to leave.

April 13, 2012 (dream)

2012-04-13T03:53:35Z

it's laid out and played out like a long-winded bore sucking air to hear it wheeze
a breeze blowing south and picking up speed

it's all planned and sanded, smooth like glass a chroniker leaking time
so sublime flowing out and feeling out the decline

you've told me before that something has to change
i've told you before we're all on a path we can't even see

it's all chance and we ran down random like maddened dolls wound up for a war
and tore through the doors we thought there was more

it's nothing i can do anything about, even if i want to
and even that's just a lie

April 8, 2012 (idea)

2012-04-08T03:45:36Z

resume. presume.
make a guess and keep it that way.
take your best shot and put it in a case on the wall near the van gogh.

you canât walk where the others are running so steer clear of the inside lane.

thereâs just never been a better time for what we have in store.

close the door.
have a seat.
weâll be with you in just a moment.

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