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Bowls

Posted on 11/22/2008 by Backpacking Dad

This is the label from a package of bowls we just bought at Target. They seem to be fine bowls. Nice picture of a kid there on the right. There are many things written on the back of this label, among them: “Fun design lets your child eat from a fish bowl.” “Great for mom…

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The Slick Wrench

Posted on 11/22/2008 by Backpacking Dad

These are notes I’ve jotted down and meant to go back to but I have little intention of doing so. And in some cases I don’t even remember why I was making the notes to begin with. This is what a writer’s/writers’ block purge looks like. ********************************************************************************** Fairies Green Fairy: adolescent, drunken-ness. Perpetual childhood (Tinkerbell,…

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Parts of this poem are good

Posted on 11/19/2008 by Backpacking Dad

Ruminate on expectations, drudge cogitating snot. Exsanguinate crimson corpuscles, suck chuck-muck. Porous veil, lacy gently wafting; Gottado Watta. Reveal the cellar door, abort the slick wrench. Illuminate, intimate, procreate. Vomit, belching, bile. Accomplished. Final. Final, this Curate’s Egg.   (This inexplicable post is a writer’s/writers’ block alleviation that owes itself to the #goodwordsbadwords challenge on…

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