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I LOVE to write! So what else is new - this is true for just about everybody who is subscribed to Helium! I recently retired from my long day job, even though I continue to teach a bunch of courses in an evening division university program. (I love to teach things to people who love to learn, so this doesn't really qualify as an official "job.") And speaking of "new," this opportunity for online sharing of creative output is kind of new to me, so I'm excited about it. I have time to write now, so I'm planning to write more and more.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Quicksand

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SAND-HOLES AND ANSWERS In that solitary bed he dreamed the childish dream of digging one vast sand-hole with a red tiny child shovel - tin - in one hand at the beach on a gray Tuesday a lonely season away from the laughter-crowds, and walls giving way each time he tried to clamber out, fearing all the while that all of life slips away and falls apart no matter what is done to stop it, watching everything come together and rest all of a sudden and instantly knowing and breathing heavy with discovering we all end up heaped and mixed and laughing together down at that same pit's bottom. Caref...

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