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9/24/18: Predators and Scammers (Part forty four, Toxic Environments #1, version #2)
Well… it wasn’t exactly Topeka. That’s just where I was told we were going when I asked. “Some God-forsaken hellhole by Topeka.” I had no idea what he was talking about. “What’s so hellhole-ish about [...]
9/23/18: Predators and Scammers (Part forty three, A Long Way from Home version #2)
A Long Way from HomeOn the side of the freeway. State highway seventy-two. Well south of I-80. South Omaha. Near the stockyards. I’m on my way home. Heh… home? Am I calling my dingy little [...]
9/22/18: Predators and Scammers (Part forty two, Unskilled Omaha version #2)
Chapter Five Scab Unskilled Omaha After paying rent and the several days of my (perhaps a bit unwise) street punk feeding program, what was left of the two hundred bucks I’d gotten from Fred was [...]
9/21/18: The Good, The Bad, and The Naked
Here I stand Before the stone Not in fear Not alone Journey's end Not fore to see Live in light Live in me Brave the band The Devil's due Sent in silence Sent in you [...]
9/20/18: Comfortably Naked
“Just beyond / yourself. // It’s where / you need / to be. // Half a step / into / self-forgetting / and the rest / restored / by what / you’ll meet. // There [...]
9/19/18: Predators and Scammers (Part forty one, Omaha on a String version #2)
Omaha on a String But before I got the job to get that money, the money that would allow me to keep my dingy little basement room (for a while anyway) before I got that [...]