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Burning Your Letter at the Kitchen Stove

I burn your letter At the kitchen stove Starting with the corner The flames erase your signature Cauterizing even the word love Stretching up, the fire Finds substance in my fingers It consumes my hand, My wrist, my arm, my … Continue reading →

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From a Hypnagogic Journal Part Five

I know you’re all avid for the next installment of our riveting tale, but I was actually thinking of writing another anti-Bush screed focusing on the irony of the "terrorist organization" Hamas winning one of his beloved elections when I … Continue reading →

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Quote Bag

a few special quotes to help you make your day special!!!     Played out in dreadful reality and ritualistic acts…   –Colin Wilson     Poetry is, after all, fundamentally the representation of man’s empirically pathological condition.     … Continue reading →

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From a Hypnagogic Journal, Part Four

Great, great, I said, getting up too, and we smiled dumbly at each other. So? She asked finally. Oh, ah, yeah… At this point you’d expect me to say something like I’ll call you, but in our college even the … Continue reading →

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From a Hynagogic Journal Pt. 3

if statistics are accurate ABSOLUTELY NO ONE has read Part Two. Due to this total lack of interest there’s only one thing to do — immediately post PART THREE!   She was relaxed without seeming bored, responsive but not overeager, … Continue reading →

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From a Hynagogic Journal 2

But the key to Kathy, or rather the key to my future relationship with Kathy, was right there, in the form of the empty chair across from her as she sat alone at the long table in the dining hall, … Continue reading →

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Good Night Liberty

Just a quick note to UBU’s devoted public – I saw "Good Night and Good Luck" yesterday, and while it’s not a great movie it seemed (as I’m sure it was designed to) powerfully apt and pertinent to our present … Continue reading →

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Bush rant

While I work on the next section of Hypnagogic Journal I’ve got to vent at (once again) a few stories in the news. The first is the headline something to the effect that the "Justice" Department (and in the Bush … Continue reading →

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From A Hypnagogic Journal

There’s always a key with a woman, isn’t there, or rather the conjunction of key and hole (so to speak), that brief window of light, the narrow opportunity to get inside, to get to really know her. In our crowded … Continue reading →

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The Bridge

I used to get off the bus a stop early and walk across the Washington Avenue bridge over the Mississippi river every day when I was at the University of Minnesota. There’s a nice pedestrian level on top of the … Continue reading →

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