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Living With Women

I’ve lived with women for 37 out of my 38 years of life, except for the two years of boarding school, and everybody knows that they don’t count. From the moment I could look up and recognize my surroundings my life has been filled with women, for better and for worse. Life would have been … Continue reading Living With Women

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Baby, Don’t Hurt Me…

“What is love? Baby, don’t hurt me. Don’t hurt me no more.” ~Haddaway We are all fragile when it comes to love, an emotion so intense it can lay the highest low, and change the course of the world. It’s love that frightens more people from day to day than just about anything else, because … Continue reading Baby, Don’t Hurt Me…

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Stark Winter

The cold seeps in like a drug Coursing its way through my veins Settling deep into sinew and bone Possessing its own heartbeat This frozen wasteland of mine Starving for a recognition That will never arrive And these latent convictions Solid as a block of ice Yet chipped away by circumstance By a monumental love … Continue reading Stark Winter

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The Law of Attraction

“I take two steps forward. I take two steps back. We come together ’cause opposites attract. And you know — it ain’t fiction. Just a natural fact. We come together ’cause opposites attract.” ~Paula Abdul Let me put this out there first: we’re not opposites. Far from it. I’d call us complementary if anything, like … Continue reading The Law of Attraction

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Hesitant Love

This hesitant love Beating in perfect time With the rumbling fear Threatening my soul Finding me in shadow Pin point, razor sharp So much like friends But with an attitude Born of conscious time A closeness by default Shoved into a semblance Of what we called love Nothing else being near But the eyes see … Continue reading Hesitant Love