Tears swim out of my eyes
Mama’s hurt. The bebe cries.
Strange men tell me we won’t die
Voices tell me those men lie.
My mouth is quiet, my soul lingers
They whap us with their death cold fingers
Mama’s goin’. I’m ‘fraid they’ll eat her
Soon I feel … I’ll never see her.
Nightmares laugh, I can’t believe
The red night sky, my […]

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So. There’s been some concern recently about my apparently sudden infatuation with body modification. Between the tattoo I got in October and my newly bleached blond hair, several people at work have asked the question: Are you having some sort of midlife crisis? Apparently, these are the things people do when they have midlife crises. […]

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Something I’ve learned about myself over the last five days is that I really, really enjoy taking pictures of people. I’m sure it was annoying to some, particularly those I hung around with a lot, but the pictures I took of all of them came out much better than the pictures I took of places […]

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I think I may have been spoiled early on in my voting career. The first time I voted for president, I voted for Dukakis who lost (I never expected him to win, either) but then the next two years I voted for Clinton who won. So at an early voting age, I was rewarded with […]

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