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(Not accepting new patients except by member referral)Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02276626466870039064noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-30474455280765090342012-07-31T13:22:00.001-07:002012-07-31T13:22:38.394-07:00Miss you TAKRA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I miss this blog! Wish we were still writing on it. </div>Amy Wright http://www.blogger.com/profile/07180354752412325259noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-44764524124823613002010-02-18T19:55:00.000-08:002010-02-24T09:46:40.909-08:00Progress<span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >The sun laughs at the trees,</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >then skips beyond the horizon.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Love lies awaiting the darkness.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Heat clings to the air</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >as shadows seep into twilight.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Evening clouds lift the moon.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Night creaks to life</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >while peace infiltrates dreams.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Silence slips through fingers.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Light leaks over the mountains,</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >branching into tomorrow.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Stars sneak toward dawn.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >Rays slip past curtains</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >as sunrise sifts the sky</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,204,255);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;" >searching for the morning.</span>Truleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01426753616195870580noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-31907350923450448562009-12-27T23:04:00.001-08:002010-02-24T09:47:05.902-08:00Baby Night WhispersWaiting, whispering<br />wild wings catch the warm moonlight<br />breeze during sleep.<br /><br />Quiet the hunter<br />guards blossoming, fledgling dreams<br />adding silver lines.<br /><br />Protect the sleepy<br />hatchling, nestled close to home,<br />nature's living hearth.<br /><br />Watchful guardians<br />nudge gently to life towards<br />white, wide, waiting worlds.<br /><br />Catch, descry, get<br />an earful of every word<br />whispered gently near.<br /><br />Screech, howl, scream, loud yells,<br />thoughts and visions to the world,<br />share living beauty.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-74206080019095014622009-11-28T16:18:00.000-08:002010-02-24T10:26:31.485-08:00Purple and Lace<strong>Grocery List<br /></strong>Thigh Master<br />Fake eyelashes<br />crushed red pepper<br />Windex<br />vaseline<br />shin guards<br />Christmas lights<br />Energy saver light bulbs<br />Sliver polish cleaner<br />Mentos<br /><br />Bobby Faye Lasso worked her thigh master furiously. "Work it hard, lose the lard." She sang. While she flexed her thighs in and out with the rythm of the thigh master, she imagined the 18 year old grocery bagger stroking her arms, brushing her hair and sucking luxuriously on her toes. It had been a week ago that she had run into his scrawny, hollow chest and got a wistful of Windex in her eyes.<br />"What the...! My eyes! Shit, my eyes! Help!" She crushed her fake eyelashes with her fist and more particles fell into her eyes. "You asshole!" She screamed the bewildered bagger grabbed things off the counter to wipe her face with and unfortunately grabbed a rag that had been used to clean up a bottle of spilled crushed red pepper. He screams escalated into piercing horror. The manager ran out and quickly ebbed the situation by bathing Bobby's face with a spray bottle and a clean wet rag.<br />"Thank you. Thank you so much. That little jerk should be fired."<br />"M'am, m'am, I am so sorry." The bagger croaked. She looked into his befuddled brown eyes.<br />"YOU SHOULD BE FIRED!" She screamed.<br />"I..I...I'm sorry."<br />"You going to pay for this, brown eyes. Just you wait."<br />The bagger gave up. He shrugged, popped a Mento into his mouth. "Whatever, bitch." He left her standing with an open mouth and a bright, enraged face.<br />A few days later he showed up at her door. She opened the door a little and looked at him with deadpan scorn.<br />"My manager told me to give these to you and asked that you accept my apology." In his arms were four boxes of Christmas lights and and two bottles of Vitamin C tablets.<br />"What kind of apology gifts are those?<br />"They were on special." He dropped the gifts in front of her door and started walking off.<br />"Hey! Get back here! Put those down on the counter for me."<br />He stopped, put his hands on his hips and turned around.<br />"Whatever you crazy bitch." he picked up the gifts and waited for her to open the door to let him in. She opened the door wide and he paused. She was seductively standing in lacy, purple underwear. Brown liver spots speckled her bare arms and face and greddy spider veins discolored her thin, loose legs. He thought twice before stepping in.<br />"I'm not sure I am comfortable with this." He said.<br />"Just put the packages down and you can leave."<br />He cautiously stepped into her apartment and set the packages on the counter. Behind him he heard the soft click of the door and the subtle squeak of the lock.<br />"I was just polishing my silver." She said and sauntered over to where the young boy stood. She picked up a bottle of silver cleaner, unscrewed the lid and took a deep gusty sniff. She threw her head back, closed her eyes and puffed out a whispery, "Yes. Yes!" She then focused her glazed, red eyes on his. "You might need shin guards for this." She said and stroked his thick, brown neck.<br />"I don't...I don't have any shin guards."<br />"Your knees are going to suffer then." She laughed.<br />Brown eyes backed away but not too quickly. His intereset was piqued.<br />"Listen, lady. My mom needs me to fix the washer but I can come back tomorrow"<br />"Are you sure?" She asked licking her ruby red, finely wrinkled lips.<br />"Yes. Yes, I am." he said and felt more and more sure he would indeed return tomorrow. He didn't like lace but purple was his favorite color.<br />"Well, when you come bring me a package of energy saving lightbulbs, vaseline and leave the underwear at home."<br />"Yes, m'am." He said and with that unlocked the door and proudly stepped out into the hall letting the door click shit behind him.Amy Wright http://www.blogger.com/profile/07180354752412325259noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-36941378000802592162009-11-17T19:11:00.001-08:002010-02-24T10:26:31.485-08:00Shopping List Exercise - Enjoyanniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-11120870933550278172009-11-17T18:36:00.000-08:002010-02-24T10:26:31.486-08:00"Way Out There with only some Gold Bond Powder to Spare"cottage cheese<br />rice<br />cinnamon<br />gold fish<br />gold bond powder<br />make-up remover<br />burritos<br />lemi-shine<br />graham crackers<br />mydol<br /><br />"Don't forget the gold bond powder at the store," Rick said as I walked out the door.<br /><br />I rolled my eyes. I had just bought him gold bond powder two weeks ago. <span style="font-style:italic;">What was he using it on?</span> I had to ask myself as the vein in my forehead began to throb. It was time to grab my shopping list for cottage cheese, cinnamon and apples and run over to Smith's. <br /><br />Before I forgot, I grabbed my pen out of my purse, leaned over to the counter and penciled gold bond on the bottom of my list. It wouldn't be the first time I had walked into the store and bought fruit instead of my list requiring a second trip to the store.<br /><br />I drove over. There were no spaces. I ended up in the Blockbuster parking lot. I had to walk a half a mile just to get to the store.<br /><br />I spotted a golden-haired, glittery-skinned women at my first stop, the fruit department. How weird.<br /><br />"Do you know where the rice is?" she asked me tiredly then shot me with a liquid shot of mydol, at least that's what it said on the shot. It knocked me out but not before my head fell and crushed the graham crackers I'd dropped on the floor right before I started going down.<br /><br />When I woke up I was surrounded by perfect, shiny people in a large room with what looked like Peppermill Farms Goldfish crackers that kept swimming around on the walls.<br /><br />They offered me a burrito. "We found these at your store. Would you like one?" They asked curiously. <br /><br />I rolled over and shuddered in horror. It was still frozen.<br /><br />What I wouldn't give for make-up remover and another shot of Mydol right now. Their shininess was starting to bore into my brain like a lead weight. A little bit of lemi-shine might help, maybe?<br /><br />I grabbed the buy closes to me and started rubbing his hand. He smiled and grabbed my hand in return and began to rub it the same way. I was rubbing his. He was still shiny. Good heavens. I needed sunglasses stat.<br /><br />"She isn't very shiny. What's wrong with these people? If we can't get them to shine very soon we will have to destroy their planet."<br /><br />"Double the gold bond bond powder Rick has been feeding her," The man holding my hand said. "We want to make sure they don't glow. If they don't we can have their planet." <br /><br />"If you don't let me go, I will destroy your ship." I said. <br /><br />I spit out the gold bond they were feeding me, added some make-up remover and lemi-shine, placed it by the fuel cells. Lit the fuse and blew the ship up.<br /><br />I escaped in a pod, went back home, and strangled my Rick with gold bond powder.<br /><br />Since I couldn't go anywhere after I strangled Rick I wrote a poem:<br /><br />The gold fish swam lazily back and forth<br />in the lemi-shine and water in my sink.<br />It hadn't eaten the cottage cheese and borscht<br />that was floating on top and at at the brink<br />of it's tank. I removed it, swallowed a Midol, <br />sponged out make-up remover and began to scrub.<br />I sprinkled gold bond powder to dry it, <br />then wiped it all off, rinsed it and poured it in the tub.<br />I put the gold fish back in clean and shiny water<br />and boiled up rice and microwaved a burrito<br />crushed up some graham crackers, some apples,<br />some cinnamon, and microwaved halibut so <br />you could eat, and I could clean the mess<br />that you left outside the tank.<br />I powdered your lips and bandaged<br />your wound and into your big water you sank.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-72032440709202021672009-11-16T19:46:00.000-08:002010-02-24T10:26:31.486-08:00"The Dare" a brief inner monologue from the Shopping List Writing Exercise<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" 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<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">It's difficult and troubling</p> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">And wonderful and rich.</p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">It's heartbreaking and uplifting</p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">This grand and worldly gift.</p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Through laughter and through sorrow,</p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">'Midst realms of this abyss,</p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">Indeed we must remember</p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">How beautiful life is.</p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal">
<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZp7uEi2mQhWYT7F-u2R73X6hN7GoyE6WWugR1-eStKCtBUwlcaoSk8MvlG4XrXUoRxZYUSzozE855AtakaFhp5JpRE8vxXONyhyphenhyphenL9r0fa9Xfr7tQyAcRphINnAeAzh0YzXWDeDKCNFRhX/s1600-h/Thanksgiving+Flowers+11_8_09.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZp7uEi2mQhWYT7F-u2R73X6hN7GoyE6WWugR1-eStKCtBUwlcaoSk8MvlG4XrXUoRxZYUSzozE855AtakaFhp5JpRE8vxXONyhyphenhyphenL9r0fa9Xfr7tQyAcRphINnAeAzh0YzXWDeDKCNFRhX/s200/Thanksgiving+Flowers+11_8_09.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401875282897997442" border="0" /></a></p> Truleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01426753616195870580noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-12819481123613148652009-10-30T18:17:00.001-07:002010-02-24T09:50:45.511-08:00PumpkinRound, orange, glowing orbs<br />staring,sitting,welcoming<br />from my waiting porch.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-76766896143493944112009-10-28T13:32:00.000-07:002010-02-24T09:53:37.659-08:00Flutter<p class="MsoNormal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="center">Hi, all. This is one part of a three-part short.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; tab-stops: 45.75pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">One:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>See No Evil<?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="WHITE-SPACE: pre"></span></span></span></span></b>By the end of the experiments, even the happiest of monkeys will be irrevocably damaged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Since so many will assume hunched over positions in their corners, I will ask you to be brave, Britches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In spite of your apprehension, I am going to have to persuade you to do this for your own good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At birth you will be poached, carried away from the jungle, placed in a laboratory setting at the University of Utah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Because Dr. Langfitt will not administer anesthesia during your vivisections, you will suffer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In addition to the physical pain, you will be confined to what will be called a vertical chamber apparatus that will deprive you of your senses and social contact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Now and then you will lose touch with external reality altogether.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Outside of a worldly schema your dreams will be pure: Pay attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I may reveal significant information regarding your progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">With your orientation packet you should have received a picture of what you will look like after you are set free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Throughout the experience you will be a little stump-tailed Macaque monkey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You will have earned every one of those wrinkles, that disconcerted crinkle between your eyes, and those grey tufts of hair for eyebrows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Above and below your button eyes, you can see long black filaments sticking out from your eyelids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Despite your resemblance to Tammy Faye Baker, those are actually sutures that will be snipped open by your redeemers, once they have set you free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Let me just say that no one wants to be deprived of their vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But we must be collaborators in this plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Beyond shadow and doubt, if you ever need solace, you can call on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Outside of solace, there’s really not a whole hell of a lot I can do, but know that I will be here for you, nevertheless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Considering that others will have to have their skulls smashed under hydraulic presses in brain damage studies meant to reorganize the sensory functioning of the cerebral cortex, I would definitely consider you one among the elect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Underneath your blank evaluation sheet you will find the veterinarian reports based on what they will discover about you<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">. <o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>I examined a macaque monkey, aged approximately five months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I found an accumulation of smegma on the edematose and inflamed penis, indicating prolonged unsanitary disregard for the animal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Notice in the picture how your penis will bend to the left, like the dorsal fin of an orca whale raised in captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Fascinating. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The activists found Britches alone in his cage with filthy, moisture-soaked dressing covering his eyes and a sonar device attached to his skull that emitted a high frequency shrieking sound every two or three minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He was clinging to a towel-covered prop that had two artificial nipples attached.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It seems that this device was meant to represent a surrogate mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The animal demonstrates photophobia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Skin dry. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>Body odor fetid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Veterinarian ophthalmologist Dr. Donald Blackburn also examined Britches after he was taken from the lab.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Blackburn stated that the sutures used were grossly oversized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They had torn through lid tissue, resulting in multiple lacerations and scarring on both corneas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>He said, “There is no possible justification for this sloppy, painful experiment.”</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: 200%"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1"></span></i>Subsequently, Britches, you will retire to a place near where you were born in Mexico, in a sanctuary with an elderly female macaque who will have already raised several orphans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Be brave, Britches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I believe in you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><!--EndFragment-->Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-60430412554747310942009-10-20T21:43:00.001-07:002014-03-04T13:14:48.471-08:00I found my ROAST BEEF Poem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's kinda long. Here it is. <br />
<br />
I am consumed<br />
Brought loosely to my knees<br />
<br />
Men everywhere I turn,<br />
All over the place,<br />
Ubiquitously haunting the corners<br />
Imbedded in the fat of my brain<br />
In the wisps of my watery soul. <br />
<br />
I am sick.<br />
<br />
Pushed over the edge with jealousy<br />
With possessiveness, madness.<br />
For someone who cannot be mine. <br />
Is mine<br />
An affair<br />
Of acid. <br />
<br />
I could never have enough of you.<br />
In ten million years.<br />
More.<br />
<br />
I am sick. <br />
<br />
I desire your smell,<br />
Your taste<br />
Your body<br />
If you were here<br />
I could make you feel things you never felt before<br />
Erotic exorbitance<br />
Endless. Forever. <br />
<br />
And you come back and say to me<br />
<br />
No more. Never. <br />
You have the pulse of a corpse<br />
And the soul of a guillotine.<br />
<br />
And I will take it like I have to.<br />
But I don't promise not to punish you first.<br />
<br />
Because I won't have another like you. <br />
<br />
There isn't another.<br />
<br />
I would surrender all to you<br />
Like an overdone roast-<br />
fall smoothly<br />
gently<br />
apart at your touch<br />
my lips<br />
my legs<br />
Like butter.<br />
Slippery and silent.<br />
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Amy Wright http://www.blogger.com/profile/07180354752412325259noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-69911124554541371282009-10-08T21:49:00.001-07:002010-02-24T09:51:19.211-08:00Turmoil<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CTRULEE%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CTRULEE%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CTRULEE%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> 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line-height: 115%;">Before you’re compelled to consider the obliteration you carelessly instigate.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Consider this.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Stay you the bearing of writhing fury allowing its noxious reign?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Unleash instead the demon in seclusion eradicating its depraved power?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In arrogance you challenge the Fates <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">as you choreograph <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">your victory dance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> Truleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01426753616195870580noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-6518092677238684142009-09-26T15:25:00.000-07:002010-02-24T09:51:19.211-08:00A Situation Out of TimeA wave of disillusionment crashed over her, smothering the night’s euphoria.<span style=""> </span>Gracie sat in glacial silence surrounded by the continual ebb and flow of conversation.<span style=""> </span>Just as ocean waves pull at the shore, the sound waves continued to suck away any trace of happiness.<p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Indiscernible ice formed on the being next to her.<span style=""> </span>It was clear the storm’s effects were felt there too.<span style=""> </span>Realization brought the cold truth home.<span style=""> </span>Nothing was as it seemed even five minutes prior.<span style=""> </span>The idol on the pedestal leaped and ugly cracks clawed their way over the idol’s face.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>The night’s festivities altered in her memory, leaving behind a sickness that spread from past to present nightmare.<span style=""> </span>This moment, this storm, will alter the course of Gracie’s future.</p>Truleehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01426753616195870580noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-35702084712607742252009-06-10T19:09:00.000-07:002010-02-24T09:50:45.511-08:00grandparough, prickly beard,<br />licorice/wintergreen treats,<br />numberless hugs and <br />30 steps away<br />'til 1995.<br /><br />then you were gone,<br />still here, but not.<br />i missed you,<br />the you that went<br />someplace else.<br /><br />the busy, always<br />moving, sometimes<br />gruff man,<br />who talked to<br />my brother and me<br />and my grandma,<br /><br />and then you <br />were gone again.<br /><br />she misses you<br />and feels bad.<br />she thinks she <br />killed you, like<br />I did my dog;<br /><br />but you were already gone.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-63307534774518504802009-05-08T22:02:00.000-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.067-08:00TigerPaths that lead to nowhere and everywhere.<br />A tiger runs down with quiet feet,<br />my son walks slowly, ponderously.<br /><br />Be with me, for a moment, part of my world.<br /><br />Dead stalks slowly become green again,<br />Dry heat, wet droplets, daffodil perfume, <br />invite me to travel down the path, no guide.<br /><br />I fall up through the blue clouds.<br />I am alone and joined, <br />to the flowers, the dirt, the air, <br />yet still and alone my heart breaks free.<br /><br />Only I wander through these paths,<br />watching my son, the tiger, my life.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-55542942491587041802009-05-04T21:06:00.001-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.067-08:00OceanYour problem is vast<br />and where is your head?<br />on the tiny grain cast<br />by your feet, in your bed<br />after you took your shoes off,<br />but not your socks<br />that tracked sand on the way <br />from the beach and the rocks.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-76997743274644783062009-05-04T21:04:00.000-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.067-08:00Silly Angry Poem 2I swear the times<br />I wander through <br />the wake of mind<br />left behind you<br />the more I find<br />how little you knew.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-64892912503495527652009-05-04T21:01:00.000-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.068-08:00Silly Angry Poem 1You're the best.<br />I do regret<br />knowing you more,<br />you pretentious bore.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-45590185442876152862009-05-04T20:01:00.000-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.068-08:00You just have to love it. Nothing for months and then a ton in one night. I'm finally caught up. Please don't shun me on facebook. Ann:)anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-7687469946225753922009-05-04T19:59:00.000-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.069-08:00Es 5 por la mañana,<br />el mundo es callado y solo,<br />las subidas de sol encima del alféizar,<br />como respiro el primer aliento de la mañana,<br />permita que mí agarrar el espíritu del alba y la esperanza de la tierra en mis palabras.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-84546201479173808512009-05-04T19:51:00.000-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.069-08:00It is 5 in the morning,<br />the world is quiet and alone,<br />the sun rises above the windowsill,<br />as I breathe the first breath of the morning,<br />let me catch the spirit of the dawn and the hope of the earth in my words.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-90564025280398614072009-05-04T19:45:00.004-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.070-08:00EroticaI am the only woman for you<br />deep at the very core of you<br />your heart pumps the essence<br />of me through your body, into<br />your fingertips, through<br />my skin and back to me.<br /><br />You're the only man for me.<br />I cannot separate you from me.<br />The essence of you bleeds from<br />me, curling and yearning<br />for a taste. Craving,<br />throbbing, through<br /><br />my throat to my tongue<br />into your mouth, to your heart.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-53220435493808190692009-05-04T19:45:00.003-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.070-08:00My dear friend<br />You wander through life<br />In a maze.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542749569539798901.post-14631140051559807332009-05-04T19:45:00.001-07:002010-02-24T09:54:17.070-08:00Quiet and alone<br />Sad to the end I watch<br />The sun rise and set.anniebanana@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02393124671819810030noreply@blogger.com0