Monthly Archives: March 2025

Door Work

Posted on March 11, 2025 by sputterpub

The work is needed, but it won’t be funto feel disruption for a month or more,as hinges are removed, and one by one,I have to do without a framed-glass door.Until the reparations are all done,I’ll have more noise and people … Continue reading →

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Good Cut

Posted on March 10, 2025 by sputterpub

My mother had no patience with my hair.When I was only 7, someone choppedit off too short to tangle or to snare.I recollect dismay and shame that stoppedmy freedom. So I seized control to wearit, heard her hate it when … Continue reading →

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Simperers

Posted on March 9, 2025 by sputterpub

Detailing social friction in their set,she sorted people geographically,contending east coast natives ever gettheir notions and emotions blatantlydeclared, while westerners are more repressed(polite or sensitive they’d self-describe).But he conjectured how each one expressedwas owing to a hot or WASPy tribe. … Continue reading →

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WIP

Posted on March 8, 2025 by sputterpub

The waterproofing on the western faceis near completion now. I thought the planinitially was simply to replacesome soggy sills, but talking to the manmy brother recommended, skillful, smart,developed and expanded into new,inside and out – almost a work of artbefore … Continue reading →

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Eastward at 8

Posted on March 7, 2025 by sputterpub

I didn’t note, returning home, a sightinspiring me to aim and click my phone,until I exited the train last nightand followed this appearance. I had grownaccustomed to street oddities all right,but this was an array I’d never known.It raised the … Continue reading →

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Westward at 3

Posted on March 6, 2025 by sputterpub

I walked through campus on the way to BART,avoiding strikers to absorb new greeninstead of chants. Once there, I stood apartfrom others, and rode backwards when the screenannounced an 18 minute wait. My heartat peace, my book in hand, and … Continue reading →

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A Little Breakage

Posted on March 5, 2025 by sputterpub

I passed the damage yesterday, and thoughtit might serve as a prompt for micro verse.A stanza on the little chaos broughtgratuitously now. An urban curse,a tantrum, small destruction no one soughtand, to be sure, a crime that might be worse.I … Continue reading →

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For Now

Posted on March 4, 2025 by sputterpub

I had occasion, several days ago,to walk four thousand steps to meet a friend,enjoy a tasty lunch before the show,and talk about some travel we intendto make in seven months, although dependon it – experience may intervene.Bad health or politics … Continue reading →

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Tepid

Posted on March 3, 2025 by sputterpub

I cannot give the play a good report,although I hear much media approved.The stagecraft was impressive – just the sortI like to see, but I was barely movedby storyline that didn’t sense-distort,but offered nothing novel that behooved.The lunch and talk … Continue reading →

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These Kids Today…

Posted on March 2, 2025 by sputterpub

If I were feeling critical, I mightcondemn the way they misprioritizedtheir yesterday, when what would have been rightwas more and early visit (I advisedconsideration, never heard). Last nightsome neighbors, even younger yet, surprisedme with their texted inabilityto think. (But neither … Continue reading →

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