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....I have had a change of heart, my 57 year old heart and that is that I might surrender something about myself.I am homeless. I suffer from chronic depression and PTSD. I am heavily medicated, living in NE Ohio in a town that is slowly going to Hell...except

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Madness: 5 of 160
...swimming to the moonwould be easier than loving her. Something inside herwas broken and scattered; bare bones long sincepicked clean by the carrion birdsof the capricious twentieth century now gone.When ,with me alone ,she showed the happyinner child, wrapped in bright ribbons of joyand wonder, chasing fireflys and moon b... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Moments that change your life: 50 of 234
Fate of the Rose...sometimes,when something I have wanted for a while happens, it is still had to accept with any sort of "grace"; like it being January and 55 degrees outside and the tulips having convinced themselves that its spring. I see on TV that the cherry blossoms in DC suffer the same misconception, a full 90 days e... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) Is there an element of fiction in religion: 2 of 7
....even though the root word for religion comes from the Greek and means 'the binding together', what is religion but another man's superstition? The answer to the question is so utterly obvious that what I will try to do here is explain how 'fiction' came to be an absolute for religion, indeed in the social and collective o... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Pain from love: 303 of 917
Postmarked: Special Delivery ...sometimes free like postage to the Dead Letter Office, I dream of your unguarded male chute; hoping you'll awaken to find that its plugged up; stuffed shut with all the junk mail of your 4th. class love. More..
Entertainment > Movie News & Previews Should William Shatner return as Captain Kirk in the new Star Trek movie?: 13 of 27
....oh my God; has it come to this already? It is not bad enough that all Government, City,State, and Local, agencies seem to have taken the movie "Brazil" or " Slaughter House Five" to base their office politics upon, but here comes the man who has singly redefined the condition of "Self Importance" to a legendary altitude. ... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Facing death: 3 of 6
....the rain had gone from verticle to horizontal, lashed by the monsoons dancing across the Gulf of Tonkin, hunting every last dry spot on your body regardless of how deep or how much clothing you put around it. It also didn't help that I was lying in two feet of rice paddy bilge, trying to keep my sight clear and my rifle c... More..
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Self-reflection: 207 of 372
Tripanasona Rickasitsia.....Upon the eve of St. Crispins Day, I mixed fresh garlic,fresh basil,fresh thyme,rosemary, and oregano into a 2lb. plastic tub of real butter.The following day I bought a loaf of real sourdough bread and a jug of deep red wine.....Just now this evening I have cut off the wrapper, picked up the loaf, ... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Political Values America is in a privacy crisis: 25 of 42
Somewhere back towards the middle of the previous century, I served in Military Intelligence in Asia.After that, I worked for the 'Company' out of Langly.Given the state of America today, I deeply regret both.However,both jobs did provide me with enough exposure to be able to recognize what is really going on in spite of wha... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Childhood memories: 233 of 308
...it is gray and sunless for my fifth Christmas, the snow like tiny slivers of slatepinning themselves to every branch and bush.Springfield, Ohio; can it really be half a century ago? Have grown so old that I can count the time, no longer in mere decades but in a fraction of centuries? Preserve your memories, Paul Simon sez;... More..
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Remembering Richard Brautigan: 4 of 5
.....the first time I encountered Richard Brautigan was in September of 1969. Just home from the Asian War and still pretty rattled inside, I was attending my first semester at San Jose State in California. I had moved down early and taken a very small room in a communal "student housing" home called Lime House.My room was wh... More..