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What Is Worth

What is Worth While we were attempting to buy a somewhat indulgent piece of stereo equipment, the electronics salesman told me what I have come to...

The Suitor

The Suitor When I was a young man, as they say, I arranged to meet a friend of ours, a woman to whom we had both been attracted because of her...

Joy

Joy Though we had only been talking for a few minutes, it became clear both to me and to Sharon that we should have ignored each other and kept...

Diamond-hearted Coal

my frigid heart is icy, formulated into diamond-hearted coal

Avantgarde Dragonfly

Come for a garden visit with my special dragonfly.

A Run-in With Mr.D.

Cherrylaine MacBride has a run-in with the infamous Mr. D.

SUMMER IN 1949

My two brothers and I and a friend were walking home from school in the rain. It had been raining for two day's and it was just starting to let up...

My Sins

My Sins drip specks on the ocean.. they dissolve in the next wash of spray. Your sins leave dark streaks that span islands.. killing and maiming for...

When Time Stands Still

First love, reticence and innocence.

Giving

Give that boy some food, Give that boy a meal, Don't you want him to eat? Give that boy some fodder. Anyway, where's his mother. Aren't you going to...

Street

The decay of society

Everpresent

The Everpresent, Effervescent, Shimmering of life. The bubbling ripples, The swirling trickles, The ebbing of the wind. Smiling and touching,...

APPARANT APPRENTICE.

A TYPICAL JOB HUNT.
Cherry

The Understudy

A sister tired of waiting in the wings.

Manly Mushrooms

A madman is in control of the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal.

Zzzzz I backed Betamax

Sitting under the bridge With the rain just falling down My bum is numb with cold From sitting on the ground The last thing that I've eaten Is the...

The sound of money

The sound of money

Who mourns Fat Penny&;#063;

Sad fantasist meets sad end

Little white girl Hillbrow

A red haired woman sat next to me on the bus last Tuesday. She smelled of stale cigarette smoke in a way that only well-groomed woman who live alone...

An ode to originality

contradictory rhyming verse

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