monday morning
...Monday morning
woke up at eight, it was a splendid morning
cool before the day becomes serious and
demanding attention
belonging to the 1% of people born before
the second world war, I'm ofte...
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Categories:
doctoral, absence, abuse, age, art,
Form: ABC
labs
...(a university-life vignette)
It’s Saturday morning at about 9am. I’m in the chemistry lab, a sterile looking room with 12 workstations that are like multi level kitchen islands with sinks...
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Categories:
doctoral, angst, career, environment, humor,
Form: Free verse
for someone
...It’s hard to meet someone serious at college. Everyone’s busy,
self-centeredly grinding away at their dreams. So much so that
people tell you to not even try (especially as a freshman).
I was mo...
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Categories:
doctoral, anniversary, boyfriend, celebration, humor,
Form: Free verse
Propitiation
...I had lunch with Randy, between classes today. It was a perfect day. The sky was an infinite, capri blue, the wind was stirring the environment, clouds were wispy and on high - in the fast lane where...
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Categories:
doctoral, friendship, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
the 3rd floor
...This was last Saturday night. We were at a rooftop party in downtown New Haven thrown by ‘DocHouse.’ Doc-House is kind of a frat-house, owned by Dr. Melon, where he and seven doctoral students live. ...
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Categories:
doctoral, humor, school, social, student,
Form: Free verse
Athens
...We’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little ‘heat domes’...
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Categories:
doctoral, humor, mom, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Too Many Gods
...Too many think that they are God
Too many think that they know God
Too many think that they see God
Too many talk like they know God
Too many sins
Too many Satans
Too many prosecutors
Too many...
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Categories:
doctoral, allah, allusion, angel, god,
Form: Rhyme
My Watch
...It’s Sunday morning, my watch shows that it’s 33° and 5:58 am. Surprisingly, half of us are up and motile. My excuse is that I’m scheduled to volunteer at the hospital this morning.
Leong just came...
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Categories:
doctoral, boyfriend, music, relationship, school,
Form: Free verse
Panic At the Station
...Sophomore year’s clocked-up my free time. Last summer I made some core promises (to my mom) to go harder on the pre-med track. Perfect grades are ok, I’m told, but they’re underdog, alone. So, this y...
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Categories:
doctoral, boyfriend, school, student, teen,
Form: Free verse
Sage Brown
...Peter is joining us for lunch in the cafeteria. I met him on a crowded Saturday morning at a coffee shop. He’s from the flammable, paper-dry, sagebrush hills of Malibu and grew up overlooking the haz...
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Categories:
doctoral, boy, friendship, fun, school,
Form: Free verse
Lance Defeats the Matriarchy, Part I
...The endless fight seemed to come to an end,
the toxic nature beaten out of men
by lessons taught, and pressure from above,
the masculine had surrendered to love.
The action movie, no more to be...
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Categories:
doctoral, conflict, corruption, culture, men,
Form: Epic
If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxiv
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXIV
IF ever I had a country proud of its sacred Soul Patrie
And if ever by a long shot I was nominated - not spuriously elected - Chef Ministre d'Etat
Ple...
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Categories:
doctoral, education, graduation, prison, religion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Raconteur Prevaricator De Jure
...This chap iz a life
long student – groan fizzy
(from being protean entity
at least sustained along minimally
cerebral Mohorovicic continuity
till...post mortality
reincarnating one carbon pecul...
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Categories:
doctoral, 9th grade, education, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Reverse Orbitz
...Mach my words, that time travel aye
foresee (rather than being
at a stand still, nee frozen
analogous to cry
oh ja hen nicks, or more particularly
going backwards)
thi...
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Categories:
doctoral, 11th grade, family, farewell,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Malkavian 4
...I present unto you
Unsub one and unsub two
Each looks as I do
They think like me too
Unsub one will have some fun
Killing everyone that survived
Unsub two will handle the cops and news
As so...
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Categories:
doctoral, adventure,
Form: Free verse
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