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A Morning in the Life of Many Ordinary People
A Morning in the Life of Many Ordinary People is exactly what it sounds like - each chapter is a snippet of someone's morning, a small insight into their life. All of the characters are from different walks of life, different ages, different backgrounds, different personalities. I hope you can find a little of yourself in some of them.
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Myrna's Present
"Good morning, Jim!" These three words has been Myrna’s diurnal greeting for me for the past eight years every time I hurry myself to my cube. She...
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Centralian
The soil is boiling. Noxious fumes rise from fissures. Ice cubes and air-fresheners Are thrown down from the mansion windows And we are expected to...
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Rust
Around my white vinyl house Is scattered an assortment of mills: Motley brick bones With salted bloody cement cartilage And cracked, uninhabited eyes...
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My Friend
You shelter me through tempest storms – indeed, you are my friend. You never try to change my ways, instead you interblend; I’m free with you and you...
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Banned Books
The libraries and bookstores of the world Are stocked with pleasantries: Prim, proper, peach juice-oozing volumes That made the grade. These books...
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Elegy To the Worker
The bricks of the human world are dying. Others are being born as we speak, But others still are dying And the world is dying and changing with them...
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The Protest
The human being is an inherently contentious creature. Seven billion rock-wall eyes; Eyes staring belligerently down seven billion sharp noses; Noses...
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Recluse
I don’t know why I am apprehensive, I must have interviewed hundreds of people, but this person for some reason causes fear to flow through me. I am...
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God's Plan
And I allow these rocks to be firmly placed into their needed position for my very few people to have a home. Thank you, Father. Now, I cannot...
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