Category Archives: Writing

Brake to Break

Posted on August 5, 2025 by sputterpub

I plan to interrupt this streak in weeks.On August 20th I shall depart.And though I will be practicing techniques,my time will go to gathering, from startto homecoming, each episode that tweaksattention, and the feelings in my heart.I’ll let impressions, fertilized … Continue reading →

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Paper Project Stall

Posted on July 29, 2025 by sputterpub

I skipped some weeks of regular review,and wondered why until a day ago,when I resumed the skim, and then I knewahead the task no longer has a flow.I’ve jettisoned financials, and a slewof letters – though I saved a few … Continue reading →

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Vocation

Posted on July 20, 2025 by sputterpub

I thought I’d write good books when I grow up.I practiced but could not create a plot.And when the stories started to show upin mind, I was impatient and forgotto let the climax build. I rushed and shotthe arc of … Continue reading →

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What Harm’s It Do?

Posted on July 8, 2025 by sputterpub

What harm’s it do, imagining a plotthat justifies the actions of the fewI’m contemplating? Whether fact or not,what harm’s it do? I planned to write about the things I knew,but such did not enchant – so I forgotthat tactic and … Continue reading →

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Hype in the Headline

Posted on July 6, 2025 by sputterpub

Is this bad journalism, or contemptfor every reader? Someone okayed “hype”to end a headline, like they were exemptfrom objectivity. Of course I gripeto read “ideal”’ as if it were a typeof lukewarm adjective, and see there’s nodistinguishing veracity from tripe.I … Continue reading →

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Lost Line

Posted on June 23, 2025 by sputterpub

I woke up with a line of poetryresounding, and I failed to jot it down.I opted not to flip the switch at 3,and light the room and make my pupils shrink.Repeating it while sinking back, to seethe next two hours … Continue reading →

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First Pass Near Complete

Posted on May 20, 2025 by sputterpub

All correspondence now has been reviewed.Though some collections beg to be rereadbefore return to friends as recall food,the bulk is boxed with stuff we’re going to shred.The spiral notebooks where I drafted versethat went to toner and became a post,or … Continue reading →

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Reading Myself

Posted on May 9, 2025 by sputterpub

Intending to devote an hour a weekto sort through paper records and selecta few to keep, provided they’re uniqueand trigger recollection, and rejectthe bulk of piles, files, notebooks, seek-ing diminution after I inspect,I’m reading more the more I lessen shelf,both … Continue reading →

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Verbosity

Posted on May 6, 2025 by sputterpub

I’ve tidy-filed papers here for years,and recently I started to dispose.A box of paid-off mortgages and tiersof tax returns were items I first choseto toss, stiff data that I don’t supposeI’ll ever need again. Two boxes full,before confronting signs I’ve … Continue reading →

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Collected Correspondence

Posted on April 30, 2025 by sputterpub

Three years of correspondence I retainedof traded histories and promised sex,that crashed in realization. I disdainedcontinuation, but among the wrecksof revelation I preserved a pileof printouts that might generate a workof future fiction. Tucked into a file,I kept the tracks … Continue reading →

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