Billy was not as old as he looked. Torn down as he was by hard and foolish living, Billy was young in his mind, enough so anyway to suck in the gut and flirt with girls too pretty and far to put together for an sad old clown like Billy. Ah. Poor old Bill gave [...]
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It is a finger snap. A bad relationship. I have lost more years to the fog of a cloudy memory; years of nothing connected by landmark moments in my life. Life. It’s a wish in the wind carried on the petals of a daisy, and as such carries along and lasts just as long as [...]
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Loyalty is a dying bird. Cast to the earth by the flung rocks of instant gratification and our incessant flavor of the moment obsession, to be loyal is to be past tense, out of it and just plain inferior. Get what you want now. Do it now. Be it now. Waiting is for whiners and [...]
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The ape was clearly having a good time. Putting on a show, shouting and flailing his long arms, climbing up the branches of the Big Tree in his glass-encased little paradise. He was the joker, it was clear; the King being the fat one with his back to the people, sitting on the ground and [...]
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Burn, baby. Burn! It’s coming soon to a housing tract near you, and maybe even your own: wildfires, hot and raging house eaters, burning down McMansions and wrecking every lawn from Moreno Valley to Anaheim, Ca. Thanks to global warming, we live in a time where wild and crazy weather is what we can expect [...]
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