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buckman
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Posted - 03/26/2008 : 19:46:40
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He knew he was bad at fixing things, so he thought he would be good at breaking things. The only girl in the commune/family/house that had a real job and a car had bought a horse and she couldn't ride him. She might of been, um, a little heavy but it wasn't just that. It was that no one had ever ridden this horse. Buck was stoned [surprise] and he said he could break the horse but he was just showing off for the new girl, Mickey's friend. They drove up to the Napa valley and it was over quick. It took one up and down shiver of the horse's butt and he was over the head and into a new state. The state of pain... and two cracked ribs. After Buck and the new girl washed the dust off in a roadside creek, they made love for the first time and he had hiccups all the way back to the City...
Not much of an ending, but it wasn't an ending. It was just a day that went on for a long long time...
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buckman
Firefly
    
USA
2825 Posts |
Posted - 03/27/2008 : 16:00:29
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Two months he spent in that basement in Pittsburgh.
This was no finished rec room. It was all cement and dirt, underneath a house that was months away from falling down. His roommates were two brothers from Mississippi that had really long beards [think ZZ Top]... They were coming off heroin and he was just hitting his upward swing into years of addiction to almost everything and they got along just fine, teaching him how to shoplift without getting caught [the important part] and alot about some really good music. The house was owned by Youth For Christ, but he didn't feel like a youth and was still unsure about the other part. They worked downtown during the day helping to build a coffeehouse called Pittsburgh Power and Light when they weren't in Point Park throwing frisbees or trying to steal money from the Hare Krishna's [they had it All going]... It was really just a place to sleep in between side trips to Washington DC and Beaver Falls... When they asked him to leave because he was a disruptive influence [?#?] on the others, it was the second time in a year that Christians had turned an eighteen year old kid out into the streets...
Years later he still wasn't sure who was right and who was wrong...
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buckman
Firefly
    
USA
2825 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2008 : 06:35:25
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The holes in my arms and the blood in my nose should have been some kind of sign to you. I know, it's hard to hold a man that's on his knees...
Give me a minute or two, Darlin, I'm trying to stand up...
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Doug L
Firefly
    
Canada
5446 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2008 : 09:20:14
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THE ARCHERS
Three blind archers in a thicket where wild roses burst from prairie grass like screams, fire their arrows in six directions, the sky laughing when they miss. Half-buried rocks dull the arrowheads when they shoot the ground. Hear the the brief racket of birches when the arrows pass through, taking bits of leaf and bark in their random flight. Somewhere beyond these trees, Lorca walks calmly in the late morning sun, his earliest poems padding the toes of his too-big shoes. The blind archers pull arrows from their quivers, mad with delight. They draw the bow taut and zing them off into what, for them, is light without definition, a shimmering gauze that tells them it is no longer night, that the sun of memory keeps their hearts. It is this way with love, eyes of no use, the firing without guarantee. Lorca ducks nimbly as an arrow sails past, hears its dry whistle above his head. Kneeling there in the dew-dampened grass, he whispers, "Buenos dias," to the wild and bleeding roses.
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Ailinn
Windchimer
   
2196 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2008 : 17:22:50
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"I am a poet and nobody shoots poets."
~Federico Garcia Lorca~ June 5, 1898 ~ August 19, 1936
When they put the gun to the back of your head...under a cloud of smoke from your last cigarette...with your extant eyebrows and cloven chin...your unequivocal coal eyes and widow's peak hairline...did you die smiling near that dear olive tree?
So many questions and so few answers.
Doug~ I saw his Blood Wedding and The House of Bernard Alba performed in Los Angeles. Blood Wedding was a magic night. Have you read Poet in New York? A different level of consciousness at work from The Gypsy Ballads and the canciones. Mick had the very best translation of The Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard. "Black are the black-shod horses/Stains of ink and beeswax..." I have the same copy somewhere and now I'm determined to find it. |
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Ailinn
Windchimer
   
2196 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2008 : 17:36:02
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When the Saints sobbed into their white handkerchiefs he turned a deaf ear to their weeping. Pressed his ear to the sun-drenched ground and listened for the deep quiet. In a world full of noise he went searching for the right silence. A perilous path paved with glittering litter. Meanwhile, outside the media tents, the celebrity venues continue to jam traffic while the AD's rush around with designer lattes. Crab cakes from Maryland flown in fresh this morning. Lobsters from Cape Ann... |
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BarbraG
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1825 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2008 : 21:19:45
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Fly me back to the Rockies. Don't wanta pay my way. Just wanta grab a freebie flight. I must go back today. The snow-tipped peaks are calling me. I need to pack a bag. John Denver's up there somewhere. And, I don't wanta lag. They say he comes around sometimes when the wind blows soft and low. Don't know how I'll get there. Just know I have to go. Anyone have a Lear outside? That would do just fine. Doesn't have to be a luxury jet. That's the last thing on my mind. Yep. That's the last thing on my mind. I wish I could figure out what he was thinkin' of !! Sure. When he climbed into that tiny seat, and went the way of doves. I miss that country boy.
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Jonmark
Windchimer
   
USA
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Ailinn
Windchimer
   
2196 Posts |
Posted - 03/30/2008 : 18:58:18
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LA stories. Sunday life around the corner. Across the street from CBS the preacher of Farmer's Market makes his rounds among them. Tells his fog-bound story behind the dumpsters at Du-par's. Blesses those who come confessing. And the more penitent who don't say a word. Broken lifelines shining in their outstretched palms. Nine months a year the sun prevails over Fairfax and Third where the underpaid assistants menu choices consist of date shakes and green-apple pie. Where the tourists and seniors queue up for corned beef and homemade horseradish at Mcgees. |
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BarbraG
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1825 Posts |
Posted - 03/30/2008 : 22:51:20
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Sweet Jonmark, Thank you so much for the trip back to your cafe with such an insightful flight back in time for me. I enjoyed it very much. Hello to Bree. BGee |
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Doug L
Firefly
    
Canada
5446 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2008 : 11:21:56
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SONNET XVII
I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries hidden within itself the light of those flowers, and thanks to your love, darkly in my body lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
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buckman
Firefly
    
USA
2825 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2008 : 13:51:33
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December 2004 he turned up the Jameson’s level to a new high.
The one year anniversary of her death hit hard and he hit back just as hard. When the bartender cut him off he just stared not believing what the man had said. He made him explain that, yes, he knew he had been coming there for thirty years and, yes, he was a friend of the owner, but the combination of the hot AMG convertable and being only 3 pm on a Saturday made him think that another whiskey might not be such a good idea. After somehow getting the car the ten miles home on the back roads, he proceeded to fall down the stairs and hit his head and his elbow on the tiled kitchen floor. Then for an encore he fell backwards into the snowglobe collection and woke up in a pile of wet sand, glass and blood...
Just another dream date with Mr Jameson...
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BarbraG
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1825 Posts |
Posted - 04/03/2008 : 22:31:44
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It's scary outside tonight. Earth is still in its orbit, but it isn't the same as it used to be. Hatred runs rampant! Third graders plot killing their teachers. Parents don't know where their children are. Babies sleep under bridges with their homeless mothers, hungry and sick. Fathers run from responsibility. America is a long way from the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. And, yet, Cuban refugees still risk raging waters on tiny pieces of floating material to get to her shores. Prejudice against them and other races is alive and well. Mexicans are okay with some as long as they can serve up a good taco !! Native Americans have been fighting for homeland security since 1492 !!!! Presidental candidates sicken us with their animosity toward each other. Computers babysit our future governors of this nation. Wargames are not skits involving Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger anymore. "Kill Bill" is a popular movie and theme. Red Bull is the fuel of choice for children in schools, for study and for sports. Streetwise is a term that starts in the toddler stage now. Children learn to walk before they can crawl. Doctors kill thousands each and EVERY year .. sometimes, just because we don't have the courage to "just say NO to drugs". Vioxx, Viagara, Valium, Vicodin . . . just a few "V" words we've trusted with our lives. Nurses want out !! Soldiers want in. Skyscrapers still rising,.. along with the cost of everything we need to exist. Sinkholes still forming, geographically and personally. Earthquakes still moving, also geographically and personally. Foreclosures. Unpaid mortgages. Repossessed possessions. Diabetes. Heart disease. Alzheimer's. Black human beings still remember German Shepherds and firehoses and fighting for America, but not being able to LIVE in America. Chemicals !!! Chemicals !! Chemicals !! Children can't read nor do they want to anymore. The population is being "dumbed down" with new and newer and even newer math that doesn't even make any sense.. not like Basic Math.. ENGLISH is being sought as the main language in America !!!! Duhh !! SOOO, where is the silver lining? I wish I could think of one. Okay, here's one.
The last time I looked, the flag was still flying and I was still free !!! Thank You to the men and women of the Armed Forces.
Here's another one. I can still pray openly if I choose. How much longer will that be a "given" ?
Here's one more. "Big Brother" isn't sleeping in my house tonight. Or, is he? I might have to re-think that one. But, later.
Last one.. my mom just turned 91 and she's still spunky and takes care of her own affairs, and still drives her big Lincoln Town Car -- actually chauffering her 80-year-old sister around town -- and also . . . has another garden coming into full bloom. Now, that is a major silver lining in my life.
BGee
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buckman
Firefly
    
USA
2825 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2008 : 18:31:09
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Melinda said to me that if I could have a few small victories every day I might feel better about things. I said, It's hard to learn new dance steps when you're still working on walking upright.
She said, Is there a point to all of this introspection? I said, I don't know; I was letting it be your turn to bring the point...
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buckman
Firefly
    
USA
2825 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2008 : 19:27:30
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There was a door from the bedroom to a screened in porch with wrought iron chairs. It caught the wind and it took the smoke and it looked out over the valley and to another mountain. He spent alot of time there in the middle of the nite, thinking and smoking. It was a good time - no, it was a grand time, he thought. He was clean for a time. He was outdoors with the wind and the nite. He was a room away from a woman he loved. In his head he put one more day on the calendar that was back in NY.
He was thinking he might even make it.
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BarbraG
Windchimer
   
1825 Posts |
Posted - 04/04/2008 : 20:36:09
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He did make it !! He did !!
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Doug L
Firefly
    
Canada
5446 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2008 : 01:21:35
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AWAKE AT NIGHT
Late in the night I pay the unrest I owe to the life that has never lived and cannot live now. What the world could be is my good dream and my agony when, dreaming it, I lie awake and turn and look into the dark. I think of a luxury in the sturdiness and grace of necessary things, not in frivolity. That would heal the earth, and heal men. But the end, too, is part of the pattern, the last labor of the heart: to learn to lie still, one with the earth again, and let the world go.
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Ailinn
Windchimer
   
2196 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2008 : 16:49:12
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Three south-of-the-border stories.
He's been holding up the sky for so long he doesn't notice he's sinking into the ground. Each noon she comes with his lunch in a pail stepping lightly between raised rows of tomatoes. Strange, he thinks, when her footprints leave no impression. He remembers the gun in the cradle peeking out from under the lace. The iron cross on the wall. The photographs. A procession of red caskets. |
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Ailinn
Windchimer
   
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Posted - 04/05/2008 : 16:54:52
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She was a crash and burn personality. He knew that before he cast her in the role. Before he ever put his arms around her. On the first day of principal photography he shot her through the veil. The hat with the spray of spots he insisted she wear. She took direction well. Punctuated each line with a jab of an ebony cigarette holder. Her face diffused behind a hazy scrim of smoke. "More noir!" he insisted, famous for the truth. |
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Ailinn
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2196 Posts |
Posted - 04/05/2008 : 17:01:18
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They were sleeping on the desert. Waiting for a break in the weather. The runway was too short and the trees grew in the way. Two feet taller than last month. Two feet taller from a sudden surge of rain. He shrugged his fate-burdened shoulders. "No accident, Lady," he said, "so lay your destined bones down beside mine." He patted the nettled blanket. The fugue of words he gave her were variations on a theme. The star-pierced sky. The tangled leaves. Hands pinned up on a branch waving through a curtain of green mesquite. "...and tomorrow..." he whispered, "...if there is one..." |
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