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i’m goin’ away, forever, never comin’ back to this place
- Evenin’. Where we headed to? - Page and Laguna. - Gotcha. How’s your night going. - Eh, I’ve had better. - Bet you’ve had worse too. - Definitely. It’s just… I’m going to hospice right now. - Ah. -...
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whether things go good or bad, it’s just the memories
Memory is a funny thing. There are key events in life, things that stick with you that might have been insignificant to the other people involved that you can recall as clear as day. The ones that...
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his tears fall and burn the garden green
I went to work last night, not happy to be ripped from a nice little Saturday of brunch and lazy time lounging with the lady watching the Kentucky Derby, leaving for the yard just in time to miss an...
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i’m going and i don’t know how far
I’ve not been sleeping well this past week or two. I’ve had a few headaches, no doubt increased by the amount of caffeine I’ve been sucking down in an attempt to stay alert enough to function, and I...
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there is no you, there is only me
We’re headed to Novato after the bars have closed and before we’re halfway over the bridge my passenger fires up a joint. He offers it to me, and we pass it back and forth a few times before I say no...
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conversations on the phone, til the break of dawn
And I know he was drinking and I know guys get weird when they drink… But I’m not, I’m not lying to you. I would not lie to you, okay? Yeah, I’m here. I’m here. I don’t know what you want me to say. I…...
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a feeling that you know you can’t contain
I slept in again today, though this time only til ten. I made some tea, made a lunch for the day and set about writing. I started something, spent a while with it only to realize that while it’s a...
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doin’ it and doin’ it and doin’ it well
I pull up to general and he gets in. He says he wants to go to the bridge. “The Golden Gate?” I ask and he says yeah, right where the tourists park on the city side. I tell him it’ll be about...
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’cause you never know, when you’re gonna go
I wrote and I wrote and I wrote some more. I spent the last two weeks either writing, or avoiding it altogether by working or sleeping. I tried piece after piece and stuck words together in an effort...
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if ya say real talk, i prolly won’t trust ya
I worked last night, and it was tough. Everyone was cool, and eventually the money came but it wasn’t ’til the end of the night when I was counting my roll that it felt like it was worth it. In the...
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say go dj, ’cause that’s my dj
Sorry, man – I don’t play radio DJ. Why not? Because I was listening to music all night and after nine hours of it, I’m done. I can turn NPR off if you want, but I ain’t changing the station. You guys...
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this what i’mma do ’til it’s over, ’til it’s over, but it’s far from over
This is post number two hundred. Two hundred days in a row, I have managed to write five hundred words and put them up here. How I got this in my head as something that I was going to do is still a bit...
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you’d better do somethin’ quick, she’s your lover now
- Hayes and Divisidero please. - Look, honey, if you didn’t want to go, we didn’t have to go. - It’s fine, I wasn’t going to stay there by myself. We came as a couple and that’s how we left. - I could...
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you southern girls got a way with your words and you show it
I picked up a pretty young girl last night in the Mission and took her back to Oakland. Her second night after moving to the bay area had been rewarded with a couple of not-so-slick opportunists trying...
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and i’m gone, yeah, f.o.m.o.
I spent another morning struggling getting out of bed. I blew off some sobriety related activities and my weekly grocery shopping last night to go to dinner with a friend and while I didn’t need to...
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it’s so loud inside my head, with words that i should have said
I woke up on a better side of the bed yesterday and my brain didn’t get moving for a while. I actually like that part of my morning, where you first wake up and can’t really think until your feet have...
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call me, call me, on the line, call me, call me, any, anytime
I didn’t do much today. Hell, I didn’t do much yesterday unless you want to count writing my daily words, walking two blocks to Pakwan to get some goat curry and naan for dinner and watching a few...
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it feels good puttin’ money in your mailbox
As I pulled up to the address my computer had spit out four blocks before, I could see the two of them already standing out front of the restaurant flagging me down. I rolled down the windows just in...
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check ignition and may god’s love be with you
Less than forty minutes and counting before I can say that I went a day without publishing a couple of hundred words in 2013 and I’ll be damned if that shit happens on my watch. I woke up feeling...
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all the days that i’m alive, i strive to understand, not to be understood
I just had a six-hour phone conversation, something that I don’t think has happened to me since high school. I called a friend, one who I haven’t spent a ton of time with on the phone, and the...
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