Posted in Impressions of New York on 10/29/2011 03:09 am by Classic NYer
I stayed long enough to see that Zuccotti Park was not nearly the shit-filled hippie-infested wasteland that the media and my preconceived notions had created. Okay, so maybe it was a little hippie-infested…. But it was not dirty.
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Posted in Poetry Corner on 10/28/2011 08:30 am by Classic NYer
He brought me
three
pretty
sunflowers…
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flowers
Posted in Uncategorized on 10/26/2011 02:36 pm by Classic NYer
I’ve been telling my stories with all the gentle calmness of a yogi trying to perfect her child’s-pose breath. As though my life is still the lather-rinse-repeat cycle it was last time I told any story at all. As though I have all the time in the world to tell these stories, because they’re not going anywhere significant anyway. I’ve been telling them to myself that way as well… but that’s not how the story goes.
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anticipation, fear, optimism, story
Posted in Uncategorized on 10/25/2011 11:07 pm by Classic NYer
“Did you hear the sounds he was getting out of that bass? Wow!”
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bass, music, professor, show, woman
Posted in Uncategorized on 10/24/2011 10:02 pm by Classic NYer
I said “good night” again. I couldn’t make “goodbye” come through my lips… but it doesn’t matter even a little since I’ll never see him again.
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antonio carlos jobim, ending, frank sinatra, friendship
Posted in Uncategorized on 10/22/2011 05:28 pm by Classic NYer
Naturally, it was crowded, not just with people, but also with ugly little twisty-faced ghouls, witches, and other unidentifiable creatures. No, reader. No. I don’t do ugly.
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costume, shopping
Posted in Poetry Corner on 10/21/2011 08:11 pm by Classic NYer
from your lips to my mouth,
deeply, as though
asphyxiated.
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Posted in Uncategorized on 10/20/2011 09:45 pm by Classic NYer
It’s not that I have a dearth of things to write about. In fact, my last few days have been pretty eventful between band bitch-fights, awkward flirtation, things being set on fire and other bizarre little events. It’s simply that at this moment words are not pouring from my fingers. I think I even want [...]
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tiredness, uninspired, writing
Posted in Music Monday on 10/17/2011 03:33 pm by Classic NYer
Am I the only one who thinks it’s an impossible task? Why won’t it last? Is that too much to ask? Why do we love Love when Love seems to hate us?
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jazmine sullivan
Posted in Recipes on 10/15/2011 04:58 pm by Classic NYer
And before you laud me as a natural born chef (which, I know, is what you were about to do) I’m usually wrong. I can almost never do something exactly the same way I did it before, because I wasn’t paying enough attention the last time I did it.
Epic domestic fail…
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cheesecake, cooking, food, recipe