The Red Summer Experience

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Raw Sugar

I have written this book 3 times. The original release date was Feb, 2007. Every time I got close to releasing Raw Sugar, something happened. Many of the projects I attempted after that also went unfinished. Raw Sugar hung over me like an anvil in the old

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tug o’ war

More than anything, I miss wanting you. The persistent ache of dreams deferring. The nagging feeling that I was missing something. Remembering exactly what it was and finding my way back to it. Yes! I miss finding new reasons to find what I was missing. Then only

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not a haiku… just aint much to say after this.

simply put   i could never respect someone who had such poor judgement they ended up falling in love with me

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Open House

it was the officer double parked on a tight street running toward your house gun drawn and flailing ready for his big break-in that made me pay attention   730 school traffic green light means go i dont usually come this way this far down this street

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My Least Favorite Subject

i always come to you a fraction of myself squarely rooted in my lowest common denominator   i know you’d prefer a piece of my pi infinite integers extending endlessly giving you an opportunity to ponder the probability analyze my amplitude   but whenever you’re in my

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Last One

i admit that i still look for traces of myself in the curves of your words wonder in all these years had i done anything worthy of writing but that is not the point i want to make here it’s more about the way i wanted to

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Natural Beauty

Now that you have seen my roots Covered in earth Calloused and dry Call me beautiful   Trail your fingers into my caverns Find the rivers Drink me slowly Salt water your tongue   Stand me in the sun Oaktree me Branches reaching into the expansiveness of

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