Classic NYC Story

Words of a poet… Soul of a musician…

Archive for January, 2011

#MusicMonday: Ordinary People

As our love advances
We take second chances
Though it’s not a fantasy
I Still want you to stay…

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Poetry Corner Friday: A fleeting thought

a fleeting thought of you just clutched me tightly…

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On graham crackers and tarnished images

… I would have thought nothing of it until she leaned against the dining room table eating a caramel cheesecake with a plain-but-sweetened graham crust and sipping her tea and declared that not only was I being nice today, but I was also a half-decent cook.

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#MusicMonday: Stone Crazy

I swear I just stumbled across this while looking up some of my musician friends on youtube… Actually in this case I use the term “friend” loosely. He’s a friend of a friend. Close enough, though… and he’s a badass trumpet player in any case, haha!

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#Poetry Corner Friday: I’ve seen you

you tasted like
the african gods
before they met jesus…

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On a very small coat

It was just some days ago that I ran into a street vendor on the south side of Herald Square. He was selling women’s overcoats. Actually, maybe I shouldn’t call him a street vendor… he was more of a hawker. I am almost certain that the coats were stolen. I was with my friend in [...]

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On things for which people have been nominated

Perhaps this upsets me more than it should, but I think at some point it would have come up in conversation. At some point he would have sent an excited email out to all his friends. At some point while I was on the phone with him he would have said something like “guess what I just found out…”

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Music Monday: Epiphany

Because I mentioned it earlier this week… Come join Music Monday and share your songs with us. Rules are simple. Leave ONLY the ACTUAL LINK POST here and grab the code below and place it at your blog entry. You can grab this code at LadyJava’s Lounge Please note these links are STRICTLY for Music [...]

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Poetry Corner Friday: Broken Hair

I wrote this last year while I was in the hospital. It’s no longer true… my hair looked a mess in the hospital and not so much after I came out of it, but I felt like sharing anyway.

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On an epiphany

I had a million reasons why this encounter was not a bad idea. He had a body like an Adonis and a member like a rock. I was drunk nearly out of my mind and I had no husband to cheat on. He was an Out-of-Towner whom I will likely never see again. Technically it had been months since the last time I got any pleasure… and yet my pervasive thought became “why am I doing this?”

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