Tag: Personal Essay
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No Wonder I Ponder A Sore Elbow
My left elbow is sore… Not movie heart attack sore. It’s cold AF sore. But I didn’t come here to talk about that. I don’t know why I came here. I don’t even think I came here come to think But if I came to think I’d ponder… I wonder… I wonder why wander rhymes…
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The Training Ground
I never felt like I belonged in that town. Leaving it is one of my personal triumphs. But it still lives in my head… The bullying, the classism, the snobbery, the racism… It all formed me, for better or for worse. It gave me a conviction. Make no mistake, there were and still are good…
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Write A [_______]
A silver lining to the thunderclouds of apocalyptic transformation is that their rains have a particular propensity to fertilize the fields of creation — a soil tilled and turned by the tectonic turbulence of an empathic existence.