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There's a poet, Sarah Kay, that I adore. A spoken word poet i should add. I began following her about 4 years back She can tug at a heart string as easily as a mild wind can down a leaf from a tree. Effortlessly and without thought. She penn...

Time isn’t always linear.

Sometimes it’s cyclical. You meet the same people and find yourself in the same situations until you’ve learned what you were meant to learn.

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It's 3 A.M. It's 3 A.M and I want to tell someone, someone who matters that I love them. Yet there is none that come to mind. It's 3 A.M and I wish for her skin next to mine and to fall asleep to the sounds of her breathing.and our h...

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About a year ago, I ended up in Twitter jail for telling some Republican politician to go drink bleach. Now that Donald is telling everybody to drink bleach, can I go back and do that again - without ending up in Twitter jail?

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Out of the frying pan into the freezer.

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I Remember the Taste of my Tears As they languishly ran down my face. No longer a torrent-I had cried too Much for them to be that. But rather a slow resignation that What is and what was are far different. I recall another night when they sat l...

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I like you. I think you’re smart and funny, and there’s just something about you that I like. So - please don’t be part of the zombie apocalypse.

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Just A Friend I never wanted a Friend With benefits. I doubt you Did either. I just wanted someone That is there for me. I want Someone to cry to. To hold. To listen. Do you not wish The same? I never wanted a friend with benefits. I never Wa...

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Of Tapes There are times we just want to press Rewind as we used to do with tapes. The joy the opening songs brought Us then was memorable. We'd sing. We'd smile. But life is not like that. We live in the present that does Not allow the...

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Drag Queens in Limousines I hated high school, I prayed it would end. The jocks and their girls, it was their world, I didn't fit in. Mama said, "Baby, it's the best school that money can buy Hold your head up, be strong, c'mon M...

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So--about that Stripper name..... "Silver Floral Lasagna??" Really? At least I'll smell like an italian restaurant.

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Thanksgiving Whenever I release a compilation of my material this will part of it. Thanksgiving It’s Monday of Thanksgiving week and I know each day I’ll die a bit more inside.Holidays and the events around them are like that to me. Stressful. T...

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Magic of Blood I guess that is me. I always saw myself as more of a white witch and not one for the dark arts though..??? At least it's only a book! So what are you ?

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From my "Coping With A Breakup" series Copyright 2019 by author.. All Rights Reserved. Some of these were first drafts and some final edits. Others did not make it past a development stage but deserved their own merit for what they sai...

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The entertainment and marketing industries really do a number on people. Why do they have to make everything so much better than it is in real life? A lot of us find reality disappointing compared to our entertainment and ad-fueled fantasies. It c...

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I should have been a fictional character, not a real human being.

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Who Do I Love? I have recently discovered the poetry of Courtney Peppernell. Namely the "Pillow Thoughts" series of books which are essentially LGBT (as is all her work) but is just as true for those not part of the rainbow. I randomly...

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"Loving Her Was Easy" I listened to them celebrate. Wacca was the most joyous. And Auron. I wanted to be happy. Happy for them-and for me. Ha! Who knew! Me, a guardian. A ex blitz player guarding a woman I had come to adore and whose pli...

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Songs from Movies and TV This is a reply to a challenge. (listed below) I have long detested movies and TV for the used of cutting edge songs or popular songs. I dislike this practice as it shows a lack of creativity and laziness. It's fine for...

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Celebration Fungirl recently put up a musical challenge for all to post to. The theme of that was 'Celebration" and while I would post there I have a bit to say about this so it goes here where I can be my own esoteric and eclectic self...

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Weekly Challenge reply! Sweet Ecstasy Caress me in the morning as You do at night. Before sleep. Before Exhaustion causes us to cede the day And the night claims us In it's sweet embrace. Touch me here, and here, and OH Yes-- definitely THER...

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Further Along My Thoughts This Week--- My thoughts today ( Friday EVE--ALMOST as great AS Friday as Friday IS LIFE!!!) revolve around organization. I am an idealist, a dreamer, a flower child that never aged, a champion for a cause and a old hippie...

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Peer Evaluation Ok-a bit a fun. Let's do this!! 1. State your feelings first. 2. Copy and paste the image and see what other also think of you. If you dare.... * Good Goddess...what have I done???* lol

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WRITER'S WEEKLY CHALLENGE FOR JUNE 13, 2019 - WEEK 21 This is a reply to the above. Link Below Treatise on Living and Loving in Tamriel by Elandaria, Psijic Mage of the Psijic Order 3E 523 Mid Year 18 Tirdus I suppose it would be apt to ...

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My recent letter to Victoria's Secret and John Menas It's no secret this company is failing. It is failing the market and investors in their parent company, L Brands, but it is also fails women as a whole. I worked in a store as a beauty...

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WRITER'S WEEKLY CHALLENGE FOR JUNE 6, 2019 - WEEK 20 Promises in the Sand ..." I could easily let myself drift away at times and just live in the momentary bliss of the moment but then all the beauty around me would be for naught. I mean...

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Goodbye itunes Goodbye itunes. In a way they are the victim of their own doing. They rose to prominence as a answer, legally to Napster, Limewire and gnuetella. In other words P2P --and the legalities of it made it possible. But what killed itunes...

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Victoria's Secret This is about a dear saleswomen who was more than just that. She was a friend and one I cared for deeply. She transferred, a step up, to a store 22 miles further away form what she was. I went to see her at her new locations....

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Hold Me Hold me as you may hold A leaf. Elm or oak still Green on it's branch Hold me Cherish me know that one Day-- Like that leaf I will Wither and die.

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---For Her--- My reply to the challenge of May16th. Choose at least four of the words below: Cage Leash Unraveled Seduced Blur Lost (And by request "feminine" ) FOR HER--- She was a fireball of temperament and passion. And yet, she ha...

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---Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie .......no words............... Vimeo--as the YT presentations are garbage. He was 22 when he wrote and performed this....... My personal poet laureate. https://vimeo.com/50450557

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-----Latte--- A Personal Blog We sat on the new rectangular short tables, Bought for a store with cane chairs, also new. Two wizened souls whose days of old shone like the sun above. People stared. Never cared. He could weave a tale ...

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There really is something wrong with me. I know what it is, but I don’t think I can confront it. It’s like a reflection of my true self that I don’t dare to look at. It’s something about me that tells me that I’m damaging myself, but at the same time...

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---Twilight Time Twilight and the mystery it holds are a recurring theme to me.. I had always held that time of day in fascination and a bit of wonderment. Living in the mountains as I have all my life I am used to the scenery as seen from being ...

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The sunrise was a sight for a person like myself that never really saw in his line of duty. When you work night shifts in such a job, it almost feels like you slept the entire night, like you just gotten home from a hangover, but there was no drinkin...

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----I'm Stronger Than I Know I Am I’m stronger than I know I am. I’m stronger than you know. Seasons come and so do friends; It’s sad to see them go. For just when life has dealt me sorrow, When life has dealt me pain; I’ll hide away in m...

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S&W Valley From this Valley they call S&W, Satisfied were we when it was new. Remember well the Valley that is SW, When Nostalgia can tear us in two. High hopes had we for that Valley, Oh we'd do the best that we could do. Consumed as...

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I was looking for a home. As a Skull Baron, it was hard since no one seemed to like us. Elves mistook us as demons and have us executed by the numbers after discovery. Humans considered us filth and threw us to the streets whenever we were out for a ...

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In Twilight She walks in the twilight, as a soulless hull of the women she once was. N'ere was a trig broken, a footstep heard or a leaf snapped underfoot. She spoke not a word. A sentient warrior, e'er vigilant against the night. I cou...

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Wednesday Night Jazz Interlude with Big Cid and Ed #1 This is just a short set, as it should be for midweek. But I must admit the joke is on you as much as it is me! In truth Ed HAD no say so in this show and to that I blame the bird. No, not Char...

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Town Hall. April, 1963. NYC. No intro this time. None needed. A master at his craft can speak for himself.

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Everyone is leaving. Things have changed and no one likes it. People are restricted to talk and even express themselves, so why even stay? Everyone left as fast as they could, to get the extra distance away from that place. People went to the shore t...

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Saturday Night Oldies with Big Cid- Flower Children, Hippies, Peace Protesters and the Culture of a Rebellious Youth. Bringing in a Change, Forcing the Old to think New As one who has lived through the 1960’s I know exactly what Jerry Garcia and ...

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Traveling With Myself--a Soul ever Wandering I was born in the 1950's and, as such, I am a rebel! Ok-stop laughing, HBU!!! Get that smirk off your face young lady! OK-smirk away then. Geez. What I mean is those of us that grew up in the 1960...

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Sunday Night R&B with Big Cid-Spotlight on The Clovers! My Sunday Night show featuring The Clovers and what they meant to R&B groups of the time. It was my show of 3/17/19. To those that read, listened, read, listened and see it for the ...

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I joined EP just about 6 years ago, and have been consistent with EP, SW, and related boards since then. At the time, I was upset because all was not well between me and my partner in the bedroom. Now, 6 years later, that looks like the good old day...

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Saturday Night Oldies with Big Cid–The Haight Ashbury Music Scene of the 1960’s. My Saturday Night Music presentation of 3/16 in which I speak a bit of the 1965-1968 years of Bay Area music and the Haight-Ashbury district in particular. Yes it lac...

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---Sunday Night R&B #3, 1959-1962, The Transitionary Years. Years in Transition, 1959-1962 Much can be said about R&B Music and the effect it has had in music as a whole and as a ever expanding genre. At least when it WAS an even expandi...

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Sometimes I go to SW and a few other websites, just to hang around and see if anybody is there. I *really* need to feel like I’m not alone.

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I need to take care of myself.

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Cleansing--- She emerges from her forest as quickly as a leaf may fall from a tree. Which is to say she had no steady gait and no specific purpose or time to the rhythm of her steps but rather her heart was still absorbing the wonderment of nature a...

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Once again, the anxiety gets lower as the day turns into evening. I will be ecstatic when I feel as secure in the morning as I do at night. When that wonderful thought, “Things are going to be all right,” comes to me earlier than 8:00 PM.

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Watching Law & Order:SVU helps me feel better. There are people with worse problems than me. There are people who’ve made worse mistakes than I have.

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The problems I had 5 years ago seem so much better than the problems I have now.

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[b]Pictures If one has had a chance to age in years as I have it is quite possible that they remember photo albums that housed actual pictures taken from a camera. They are oft assembled haphazardly and yet there are those that assembled them ...

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The job interview went better than I thought it would. And, the man in my life texted me just now. I feel much better than I did earlier today.

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Sunday Night R&B #2 So as NOT to reprint this all again I am enclosing the link it is on. Thanks for listening. https://similarworlds.com/990018-I-Love-Music-Music-Is-My-Inspiration-and-My-Uplift/2508822-Sunday-Night-R-B-2-A-Conundrum-of-Sort...

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He smiled when I squeezed his hand.

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A Lady in So Many Ways I had read the play before. I had seen the film. Countless times in fact. I let myself cry every time at the exact same place knowing full well it would not alter the inevitable outcome yet the release of emotions was so wa...

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Her Scent Remembered, Her Presence Desired ( I must preface this by saying a number of you may have already read this here: https://similarworlds.com/3724831-I-Challenge-You-to-Challenge-Me-to-Write/2458088-WRITERS-WEEKLY-CHALLENGE-WEEK-OF-JANUARY...

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I just found out I’m losing my job in two weeks. I’m not 100% surprised, but it’s still sort of a shock.

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There Was that Dance *sigh* I must preface this by saying this is a work of fiction and that the events never happened- at least not to me. It would not have been possible, in whole or in part, without the inspiration of @sagepoet and one of his p...

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Remembering I sit here tonight with tears in my eyes. Which is to say they refuse to flow but the eye itself is moist with wetness as if the tear is being stubborn. Ladies will understand what I mean yet this is not an issue conducive only to women....

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Remembering “Love Story” It is truly a shame how some films become lost to time. It’s not that they are dated, or feel that way, or even that they age badly. It is because they meant something to a certain generation, a time, and when that time pas...

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It could be a stressful week coming up. On Monday, the CEO of our company is coming to our work site. It’s always stressful when he comes, because he bullies and threatens people. His people skills verge on the sociopathic. Tuesday, of course, is E...

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"I call him the devil because he makes me want to sin. And every time he knocks, I can't help but let him in."

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They stood there pretending to just be friends, when all this time, they were only existing for one another.

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The End Days Hello , my friend. Before I continue know that I am not long for this world. It is not a fate I accept but one that we all , inevitably, fall victim to. I can feel the darkness closing around me- it attracts me like dew to grass in t...

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I’m beyond sick and tired of having to be strong and brave. I’m beyond sick and tired of “personal growth” and “life lessons.” I just want things to go well again. Do I have to feel terrible for the rest of my life?

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Sometimes Sometimes I just want to be held. Lovingly and long in a warm embrace. By one who cares, by one who wants to share of their being. I want to feel their body heat against mine.. I want to share in their moment I want to be their ...

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"We are no longer friends, not enemies. Just strangers with memories."

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This is a stupid, meaningless part of my life. It’s not a *bad* part of my life - I have everything I need - but it’s stupid and meaningless. I’m trying to write a book, but it’s going slowly. I started re-reading “On Writing” by Stephen King, and ...

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I don’t feel like going out. Sometimes I just want to be HOME.

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I’m in a weird mood today. I’m feeling guilty about every bad thing I’ve ever done. I’m remembering all my mistakes. I’m feeling like I’ve f&cked up my life.

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I’m bored and lonesome at work. That’s why I’m on SW so much.

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Tragically Lost She was tragically beautiful And tragically broken. A victim of bad timing; A restlessness of the heart, A stirring of the soul. Yes, it was her brokeness That kept her whole! Vital. Relatable. Sane as she saw it. She...

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Sometimes it’s hard to wait for things to get better.

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The Last Time We never know the last time. And I am not so sure that we are to know of it. To be certain we may not stop to give pause regarding this issue until years later. Then again it may be a issue that may haunt us until the...

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My doctor doesn’t want me to get dependent on benzodiazepines (anti-anxiety meds.) So I had a gin and tonic instead.

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When I was younger, one of the main things I wanted out of life was to live someplace really cool. I just realized: that probably won’t ever happen. And I also realized this: if I can have a good relationship and a decent source of income, I can be...

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I’ve f*cked up my life. Everything was better 5 years ago. Why didn’t I leave things alone??

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Working with software developers and IT people is starting to turn me into a Luddite. When I was a technical writer, it was OK because people didn’t expect me to know this stuff the way a developer or an admin would know it. Now that my duties have...

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My job duties recently changed. They “asked” me, but it wasn’t really my idea. After about 3 or 4 weeks, I’ve never felt so dumb in my life. I feel like I’m in way over my head. Update: I’ve started applying for other jobs. Apparently I’m supposed t...

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In dreams, the waves roll in to the shore; the ocean air embraces me. In dreams-within-dreams, he embraces me.

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Sleep is sweet....the last thing bit of relief that we’re allowed anymore.

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If I don’t have a reason to believe in a better future, why *not* go back to the past? Or - if reality will not get better, why *not* retreat into a fantasy world?

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I got a lot done today. Did some shopping, cleaned the storage area on my patio. I’m tempted to relax and do nothing the rest of the day. But another part of me says, “Better get some more stuff done while this good feeling lasts. Because you know y...

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Whoever you are - no matter how bad things seem right now - please remember somebody on this earth loves you and wants you to be happy. It seems like a lot of people need comforting right now. Please know you’re not alone.

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Speechless--- I'm seldom speechless. I am now. fin. Just WOW!

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I used to think computers were the most boring thing in the world - until we could use them to talk to people. Now that we’ve been using them to talk to people for over 20 years, I wish they would shut up again.

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So much of life consists of pretending to like situations and people that we really don’t like.

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Missing One of the hardest things for me as a person is not being wanted, or needed , anymore. It is heartbreaking, There is a shallow, hollow, forlorn and void feeling that, unless you have lived long enough to live through it, you cannot relate to...

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Unrequited Love and Regrets There is a moment in this game where this song is triggered. When I reached it I stopped and let it loop 5 or so times. Maybe more. It is one that has always moved me to some emotion. Often to tears so tissues need ...

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It Must Have Been love Sometimes it is important to remember what we had, what we lost and and what we yearn for. (It's the yearning that causes us restless nights) To love, and to BE loved in return, is a PRIMAL want, need and...

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I’m beginning to think I should change my name from SmartKat to ScaredyKat.

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I haven’t been posting much because I’m not in a good place right now, and I don’t want to inflict myself on people when I’m like this. Presently, I’m tempted to believe that all the good parts of my life are over. I know this is negative thinking, ...

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Moonlight Mile------ I once had a friend on EP that adored 'Moonlight mile By The Rolling Stones. I never really understood that except that she was big Stones fan like I am. And while I like a lot of their music this song only crossed ...

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Chimes-------------------- Chimes ring silently in a house long vacant. Long void of love and affection and laughter. Chimes ring In the mind of the walls. Not really a ring. Notating time; or hours past But a sad, sorrowful mourn. A dirge fo...