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Everybody Pays
The problem with acceptiing help from people, even if you need it… Is that eventually they decide that you never could have gotten along without them; that their contributions are…
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My cat died recently.
I still dream of him. In my dreams I shower him with desperate love and affection, trying to make up for all the times I missed the chance, or treated…
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High Water Mark.
I got out today, to say goodbye to Coney Island before it dissapears, and meet a group of folks gathering to celebrate nice n” evil’s birthday. It was a bright,…
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If you lived here, you’d be home by now.
I just started a “Droogs Only” filter, so that while I’m still laid up in this geriatric rathole – and in the future- I can use LJ a little more…
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Art or Else!
It occured to me that I had not made the announcement here, where I could reach lots of folks at once… My team and I scored a big break. In…
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In other news…
A few good things have happened since I was newly incarcerated and trimmed neatly beneath the knee. First, Iv’e made a couple of new friends. Some folks have made an…
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It was already Thursday….
…and His Lordship’s artificial limb could not be found.So goes a favorite panel of mine from the works of Edward Gorey, and so goeth I. The saga of my ailing…
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Too Much is, apparently, Never Enough.
A visit to the podiatrist today was a mixed blessing. The wound I have been nursing for months is healing well. Oxygen treatments and diligent care are paying off. But…
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So, it went like this…
My last week in the nursing home, I finally ran out of – well- everything. My roommate, who had up until then been quiet, had his medication changed at the…
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The Only Emperor
“Survival is victory” I have managed to patch my life back together after my debiliating rehab stay, and have finally gotten back on line. Daddy’s home. “The only Emporor is…
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Just because you ought to know…
Made my way down to the computer to check my mail- one computer in the Rec Room. Where they are running bingo. I am surrounded by shapeless, ancient mummies peering…
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Son of a bitch
My father shifted back again, and after all these years, the crazy scumbag can still get to me. The details are irrelevant. He turned and bit, savagely. His shift from…
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You bes’ have my money, bitch….
I am rollin’ in the sweet gray haired honeys. I got your “Yoo- Hoo” right here… A care package arrived from fatr away, filled with ill gotten tools to my…