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In a split-second-eternity I spied an approach from the corner of my slanting, lazy eyes. I knew that time was waiting 'cause my heart, it wasn't beating, and my breath caught all up inside my throat. And then...well, then time happened, and I read my book. Ma vie...Je suis dépensé.
-Guppy

My environment tends to be a cloud. It's easy not to see in such a haze. It's quite comfortable to become a piece of the milky air and to pretend...imagine...shape colors into nice pictures while you blanket your watery eyes with obscurity....and to float through the sky with a great sort of ease ( Read more... )

Glub glub, asleep in the tub, a monster did dream his dark dreams. In slumber he plotted and planned and conceived. His evil: much more than it seemed. ...But along came a maiden, willful and kean. In her cause, she sure believed. She knelt and she scrubbed all while the beast slept. Un conscious, it proved most inept ...well, at proving ( Read more... )

Her face was the way I remember it...round and dimpled. My soul was like a waterfall; I poured to the earth apart from will. Gushing....after all this time. Hum. Hrm. Other such words...I'm spent.
-Guppy

Today…yesterday…that day…I took some steps; I went a’walk’n. In the absence of others, my mind turned from thinking to processing…then to malfunction…then to conjuring, and I was on a different avenue. There was a momentary skip to my step that took me to a break in the clouds and I stepped onto another plane…a cross street, a back alley…feet ( Read more... )

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In the morning, unforetold, a visitor have I. Under lid and past lens, through tissue to the center, sitting statue-like in my lotus garden, the ghost of lover's past tickles me into waking. In the confused limbo between asleep and awake lilting whispers and dancing pictures fall on my face like the black tresses of Yesterday. Nostrils flair as ( Read more... )

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