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Hands Together Chubby sausage fingers Always waving, always grasping Flailing as you come into this world. Each little digit bending frantically As if to catch the pesky dust mites vexing you Dancing in front of your face, always just out of reach. I laugh. Reaching down to grab your hands Clasping them tightly in mine […]
MoreIn Paris, my watch stopped. When I left JFK, my watch made me early to the airport and late to the gates, the signature uniform ticking along but now disabled, limping without a crutch, matching itself into my heartbeat as the finals approached, the tick…tick…tick turning into a lively thumpthump, thumpthump, that rushing in my […]
MoreThere is a sport called Basketball Basketball AKA BBALL When I play BBALL I break ankles In BBALL I shoot the 3s From top of the key or the sides All my shots go straight in When I shoot all you hear SWOOSH! My cross over is so real its been banned As I walk […]
MoreIt was a Thursday, and Mary was following her usual routine of turning on the power strips. She was in the kitchen, wedged underneath the table trying to reach the button labeled “kitchen appliances,” when from outside there erupted a chorus of low-pitched mooing. Startled, Mary lurched upward and banged her head against the top […]
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