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…be the same

Posted on May 13, 2018 by wordhabit

I just remembered a poem I wrote in French while attending an immersion program the summer of 1999. Like a song, I repeated three lines that spoke to how the summer had changed me and to how different I was from classmates. I wrote it during the final week of six. And then I remembered…

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Clarity

Posted on March 7, 2018November 15, 2021 by wordhabit

Want to be an amazing Administration? Okay. But you can’t also be an amazing mother. Want to get a PhD? Okay. But you can’t also have copious amounts of time in your garden.

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Everyday Incongruence

Posted on October 2, 2017November 15, 2021 by wordhabit

We’re living in whirlwinds Sucking up airless moments Fleeting Gasp gasp gasping . We used the metal concert gates as stretchers for the injured for the deceased . She asks me what the red stuff is. I pretend not to know. Two year olds shouldn’t be able to identify someone else’s blood. . How was…

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strumming

Posted on September 28, 2007 by wordhabit

my pain with his fingers singing my life with his words killing me softly with his song telling my whole life with his words no wonder it’s such a great song…it comes from poetry. good words = good lyrics = great music = fantastically fun performance = fun was had by all = what i…

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music

Posted on July 22, 2007 by wordhabit

makes me music breaks me it’s who i am and who i never want to be yet lives inside of me what’s your music? **** wrote that poem years ago…a decade at least. there’s more to it. that part is what i remember most vividly. the words flow across my mind (why do we talk…

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