Tag Archives: Writer

1993

I found this. I remembered reading it to a therapist once about 1993. At the time I had a portable word processor. It had a keyboard, an LCD screen, it saved text on floppy disks, and it printed on thermal … Continue reading

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Lesbian in Amherst

Well, I have once again overcome the sensible urgings of the sleeping pills I took several hours ago. “There is nothing to say.” That’s a blatant lie. “There’s a book in me.” So’s that. “I’d rather sleep than eat.” That’s … Continue reading

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luminous awe

Kept my face off the floor, because I didn’t go to work this morning. Fear seemed the better part of valor then, at about 4:30 AM; fear of another shoulder dislocation, fear of another scene at the work place (there … Continue reading

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Wreader

I’ve heard that writers read a lot, that they consume books like coal-miners quaff huge breaths of clear air after being trapped miles down in a collapsed mine. I’ve heard that writers–the commercially successful ones–don’t drink, or do drugs, or … Continue reading

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stuck

Did you ever get stuck? I have. It’s not wriiter’s block. Writer’s block and I have an almost warm antipathy, like Snoopy and the Red Baron. Besides, I’d have to be a writer of one sort or another to have … Continue reading

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doing it for real

I fantasized all day about a movie I would make, if…  If something.  If I were connected to life, to myself, to this moment.  If I had done the time in the little jobs that the people who make movies … Continue reading

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Here’s a hundred things

Here’s a hundred things we don’t know about me.  She inspired me.  Blame her.  They won’t be all together?like compiled and then posted?because I come when I come, and I write when I can, and life is not a test.  … Continue reading

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news

news I thought this immediately when I heard that the former vice-chairman of Enron had supposedly committed suicide; that people in power are corrupted, that any appearance in them of high-minded enlightenment can reliably be attributed to the success of … Continue reading

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And here are all

And here are all the non-bloggerized posts… wednesday. 23 Jan 02 11:20:13 AM Do you want to know who a terrorist is?  My second grade teacher was a terrorist.  She was an ex-nun (she must have been asked to leave) … Continue reading

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In addition to the quote

In addition to the quote posted on Blogger’s main page: “All in all, I’ve revised my earlier views about the usefulness of blogging, moving full circle from my earlier position. Yes, there’s still a lot of chaff out there, and … Continue reading

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push

Another great thing about blogger is that when midnight comes and I have wasted an entire goddamn day stuck to this web like a dying insect, I can still post something dated yesterday, thus redeeming the lost day.  <pushed the … Continue reading

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The 20-year-old grandson-of/property-manager-for my landlord

The 20-year-old grandson-of/property-manager-for my landlord is leaning against the building next door, enjoying a late summer daydream, his boyish limbs a-languor, his meditation central and deep.  And secret.  He is tall and blonde though not stunningly handsome, and cordial but … Continue reading

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walk with me Virginia

walk with me Virginia is for Lovers.  Vince and I are moving into a place in our committment and love for one another that makes the weekends not enough.  Over time, up until July 1, Vince’s stretch of beach will … Continue reading

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whine

i’m a writer, aren’t i?  why won’t this happen to me?  i thought the one on the left was cute, and i look like the one on the right– sort of.  maybe i should get a pipe…

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bad times

cute quote at wordsmith Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE) books like these?

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