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Sometimes - nanopowrimo

Sometimes
A knife is lodged
Under my gut
Silver steel stillness
Daring me to move
Scraping inner skin
This sordid shift
Pricks my will
Small and bloodless
Attack of the gutless
Runs away
Stay blind to the damage
It's easier that way.
And sometimes a phoenix
Dressed as feathered finch
Nests me in soft sage
Swaying aloft
In branch-framed day
Stretched and...
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Soyen Shaku, the first Zen teacher to come to America, said: "My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes." He made the following rules which he practiced every day of his life.

In the morning before dressing, light incense and meditate.

Retire at a regular hour. Partake of food at regular intervals.
Eat with moderation and never to the...
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The last two months have been so hard. My heart has been broken. My confidence is shaken. The future is a great sea of time. I must wait for this sadness to end. What a long road.

I listened to an elderly lady read a script today. As she read, sitting next to me concentrating on her paper, I pictured her as a little girl trying to read a report for school. It's easy to forget that each of these white haired folks (let alone our thirty-year-old selves) were once kids just trying their best. She read wonderfully and I secretly gave...
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I saw XMen3. I'm really didn't enjoy the first two movies and wouldn't have seen this one had my father not wanted to see it.
It was entertaining but the plot was so paper thin I couldn't completely enjoy it. Talk about Deus Ex Machina!
Geesh.

I found an amazing repository of 80s music videos at http://www.milinkito.com/los80.php. They don't have everything but I can pretend it's 1982 and I'm watching Martha Quinn for an afternoon of music videos. Most of the artists only have one entry but if you click into that video, there will usually be more available from them.

I got into a "don't get near me" thing at the grocery store. People kept standing so close to me and it was driving me crazy. I just wanted to push them yell "Leave me the fffuuck (I push as I say "fffuuck" to emphasize it) alone!". But that's what paranoids do and I'm not paranoid, am I? Ha. I get into this mode where...
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So Robot Record Party is getting closer to launch. Maybe three weeks? A month? We interviewed Wanda Jackson today. What an interesting lady! Her and Elvis toured together on Elvis' first tour. She's a 70 year old woman signed to Cleopatra Records. How can that not be interesting?

We've almost got enough material for the first 4 shows but want to get 6 shows ahead...
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