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#9 Actuate Collect semen from a dead guy? The Church isn’t ready to talk. His wife isn’t ready for a family. His parents aren’t ready to let go. No disrespect intended, but Darwin would turn over in his casket if he were alive today. Tracy ~ you nailed it - love the ready repetition I agree, Tracy ...

Empty, today of all days when it is convenient to remember. Letters eroded, discolored, evidence of everyone, of no one, stories unlike those at hospitals and airports, where departures are balanced with arrivals. Here, there is only loss. We sleuth around markers in search of a familiar name, past...

Letters I trace my name On a frosted window And watch the letters Fade into tiny drops That dribble together And run down the glass Drawing lines That look like sadness. Love this lots...but not fond of Caps on every line  :) Hi Colm, I'm glad you said something. We were taught that way in school w...

Letters

I trace my name
On a frosted window
And watch the letters
Fade into tiny drops
That dribble together
And run down the glass
Drawing lines
That look like sadness.

WOW Michelle. That took my breath away. Love the imagery and meaning. 

great observation.    "Denies the truth of life."  very good

The Bank Shot She weaves her walk Through perfectly lined pool tables. Short, tight, shorts Black spikes Push-up bra Low-cut shirt. A Vogue hairdo frames Penthouse makeup. She keeps her eyes fixed On the men. The regulars, the after workers, the bored. She finishes her turn and sips a Bud. The men w...

painfully beautiful because it's so honest.

That's great.        Smugly, superior

Thank you all,
You're right Phil, just tenderness does it.