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running
running
running

drinks with RoseMarie

townes van zandt
matt sweeney and bonnie 'prince' billy
songs: ohia

rewriting
rewriting
rewriting

walks with my brother
trees
the river

anchor steam
syrah
apricot ale!

reading michael ondaatje
sharon olds
franz wright

wrote franz wright a letter

wrote grandma francis
buddy carl
mofo

three months into the new year
give or take
give

rain in central texas
you...
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penink01:
Thanks to the guardian angel
who renewed my subscription
missy suicide
or someone else
what a nice
thing
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OBEY XMAS

i want to obey
the christmas tree, shipwrecked against the big front windows
weighed down by fake starlight

and glass dolls
hanging
from wire and hooks

obey the porcelain angel, her white arms open in a sign of forgiveness
the tree up her ass
her eyes painted on

she lives in heaven
with my grandfather, my dead friends, and richard nixon
and has...
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rosemarie:
I loved it.
Happy New Year honey.
see you on the other side,
Rose smile
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months and months away
with the cacti
of central texas

meanwhile,
i've been thinking about a franz wright poem:


year one


i was still standing
on a northern corner

moonlight the color of the desperation of wolves

proof of your existence?
there is nothing
but.
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portland oregon summer.
overcast, the sky a little like concrete with blue chalk washed across it.

the coffee will never be ready.

"DOGS" by nina natasia
love is hell pt2 by ryan adams
ease down the road by bonney prince billy
'neath your covers by the cowboy junkies

margo timmins for president.

sometimes i could sit out on this porch forever
it seems.
the wind...
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rosemarie:
Are you still around? I really miss your journal entries. shocked



Hope you are well and happy. Come back soon. kiss kiss kiss kiss
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back from northern idaho.

still thinking about the trees.

jen smelled like the lake.

it's late here in portland and the stars are up.
but you know that.
shining.
there.

if i could dream about anything tonight it would be swimming.
water everywhere.
the light
skipping across the lake.

look at this: the light
skipping
finally, finally,
across the lake.

there is a darkness
but...
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rosemarie:
Ahhh. This one is very pretty. Happy birthday, my friend. I hope that you are doing something special today.
Sending love your way,
RoseMarie
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tonight seems like a short night.

oh but tomorrow i'm off to northern idaho/canada
a long drive with friends
then hiking
and stars

stars
stars
stars

two Buson poems about short nights
like tonight:

The short night;
waves beating in,
an abandoned fire.

The short night;
near the pillow,
a screen silvering.


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'night

maddy:
piggy back ride eh...interesting
rosemarie:
Oh, I am just going through my list of old loves and writing stories about them and the things we did.

Because I'm bored.
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who will read this.

just back from a show.
late night in portland.
on the way home--
stars and trees.
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the latest poem about flying:

Maybe, everyone in your dream is you.
So that's you
Floating above your bed in the flattened dark.

Looking down at yourself.
Sleeping.

When I think of the bones we need for flying
I think of paperwhites, but also...
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rosemarie:
I just came across what you wrote about my set. Thank you. You made my night. ooo aaa
rosemarie:
I feel like a stalker, writing in your journal three times. Anyway I got your entry in my journal.

When I was a young girl, my dad would screech to a halt on the dry dusty backroads, and with his pocketknife, would slice up cactus apples and show my brother and me how to survive on the local flora. Doug and I were too busy with teenage acne and angst. We tasted the stuff with bored expressions, never realizing that it would hit us down the road, that dad was earnest and real, and that his tales and lessons would make us who we are now.

love and wishes,
RoseMarie

p.s. what does the "M" stand for?


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who will read this.

the moon is up!
the moon is down!
the moon is up!

i'm going to bake a cake.
doesn't that sound nice?

what did you do
i baked a cake

rosemarie:
Um, your favorite sexual positions are the same as mine blush