It's 7:50 and I have to leave for work now.  I'd rather sip coffee and watch the wind ruffle the branches of bare trees all the while thinking of nothing, except for perhaps of how beautiful  the sun is when it suddenly dawns upon dry trunks, exposing them as they are. 

Story impressions:  Make a story or poem using these words/phrases.

No power
Save the food
Invade Fairfax
Start a fire
Sweep 
Drive to clay
Swim
Career anxiety
Career memior 
Marilena
Cyprus
That's what she said
Flights
Ivory cabinets 
Orchids
Recording
Mixing
Cooking 
Packing
Laundry
Coffee
Listing
Loud clocks

In a fit of rage, Amanda does (something), making her head split apart from her neck.  It dangles by a tiny piece of skin.  She screams and demands that we let her jump off of the diving board in the ocean so that she can take a pleasurable swim at break time.  We tell her no.  She is injured and has behaved badly-  Amanda disagrees with our decree ( Read more... )

Blue Ball

Ruminating on the swing;

Sun sits on a yellow rain coat

Evaporating the salt Rob’s eyes leaked

For comfort onto his cheek.

The blue ball in his lap is bemused

To be less blue than he.

Limping to the ground,

Rolling away, the toy departs

Reluctantly.

Alana

Pointing, she cries, “Get out!”

I hate brown people!

In restraint, Alana screams and bangs

Her head on the chalkboard over and over,

Making her hair a brush

That repeats the same stroke again.

A calm washes her teeny legs

Into a tizzy that tires her head

To her desk so she sleeps

Shepherd-like after a long day

Feelings still work
Beneath what seems to be
Just Loose Leaf Lying
Around for someone else
To recylce.

Use the trashcan--
Throw me in it so I can stop
Having pointless purpose
While wearing expensive clothing.

The receipt says I paid $60.02 for a skirt
That I'll rarely wear. 

My eyes have been robots made of white, metallic glaze.  They've gazed at you for some time now, mechanically.  Before they were robots, they were far better; 
We thought a machine could cure inaccuracy.  Spell check that troubled us so.  Does learning to spell have validity despite technology that is now available?  (Yes:  research shows a positive ( Read more... )

 On Saturday, August 20, 2011 ( Read more... )

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Why are we checking ourselves out at grocery stores when the prices just keep going up?  Should grocery stores pay self-checker-outers for their labor?  I think so.