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  • TRAMP: Solipsism 

    TRAMP: Solipsism Mona found herself matching up her features with Aaron’s, wondering what their kids might look like. He wasn’t attractive according to the Greco-Roman standard of beauty, but she had observed that both women and men checked him out. He looked half his age, his eyes were large, almost doll like so much so

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  • TRAMP: The Show Must Go On 

    TRAMP: The Show Must Go On “Now I’m naked Nothing but an animal But can you fake it For just one more show?” ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’ -Smashing Pumpkins Brandon. Do you ever get nervous when you read your stuff? Aaron inquired over the noise of passing Elm street traffic. No. Why do you ask?

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  • chapter 11 TRAMP: A Song Ain’t Nothing But A Poem Set To Music – Hank Williams Xavier had been working security here since they renovated the Santa Fe building and turned the old warehouse into lofts. The place had been renovated with the help of taxpayers’ dollars for Dallas’ burgeoning urban chic. It was an

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  • TRAMP: God Spoke To Me Once II

    chapter 10 TRAMP: God Spoke To Me Once II “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine.” -Patti Smith God spoke to me once. Aaron fished around in his leather jacket’s inside pocket and pulled out a pack of Newport 100s while he talked. I thought you were an atheist? Brandon used his lemon-yellow Bic

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  • chapter 9 TRAMP: Writers’ Block Ten Years Running “It’s like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder How I keep from going under.” -Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five Mona wasn’t a very prolific writer. Her output had been limited to a few very short, intense pieces since they began doing the poetry gig.

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  • BEW

    BEW Beloved  Screaming Volcano Goddess’s AA A Muse A A She knows things secret things  Things he doesn’t even want to know  She knows where the poetry is hidden  Inside of my black box  Hidden on the bottom  Of the crimson sea of bloody dreams  Where the nightmares  My mother rode to hell on hide  Till I’m

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  • Tramp “UNDERCITY pt 3: CHAPTER XXX HEIR of the Second Circle” from the debut novel “Tramp” by poet Joey Cloudy:UNDERCITY: CHAPTER XXX HEIR of the Second Circle” from the debut novel “Tramp” by poet Joey Cloudy: UNDERCITY: CHAPTER XXX HEIR of the Second Circle chapter 30 TRAMP: UNDERCITY: CHAPTER XXX HEIR of the Second Circle

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  • Isaiah Jones vs. the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) The Big Blue: This is What the Water Said At 108 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Isaiah halted his free dives descent, holding his position in the depths. Above him, the 44-foot sloop the SS Exodus held her place, using an AI-directed guidance

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  • Isaiah Jones vs. the Sea (A 21st Century Odyssey) Juneteenth 2021: The Griot in Galveston June 19th, 2021, Galveston, Texas/Potter’s Field “This is what the earth taught me.” -JDC “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” -Steve Biko Penelope Stockard Bedowitz wasn’t certain what circle it

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  •     Isaiah Jones vs the Sea: School Daze pt 2 Strange Fruit Reprise: Higher Education in the Age of American Exceptionalism I Only Speak the Truth  Professor Damien Iroko Sisulu looked at the freshman class, adjusting his spectacles, then straightened his full Windsor-knotted navy tie with crimson stripes. The steely old ANC/African National Congress

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