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Little Bird Dreaming
One day I shall overcome. One day I shall spread the word of EWOK A made up word for a made up world And a made up Flock Enlightening Worlds Of Kindness… I see myself in a bird’s reflection Gaping at a pool Inside those Worlds I wish to be kind. In…
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9-11
The doctors told me that was the day my first son was due, and I was so excited because I could tell people that he was born on 9-11 because it was a huge emergency. Fortunately, he came late because later that day would be forever remembered as the anniversary of the terror attacks. The…
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The Invisible Condition
“Why am I so Brainwashed?”, She thought. The Catholic had been conditioned to prey to the existence of an invisible God. “Why am I such a Brainwashed Catholic?” Thoughts came from the beyond and transfigured into prayers translated from beyond the aether and the divine. The Brainwashed Catholic prayed for change in Upper Management.…
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Another love story
Theirs is the greatest love story never told until their flesh became flesh and their love moved beyond words. They knew not each other’s tongues and yet their tongues did meet. He left his land for a new life and he found Her, a gem in a jungle often kissed by rain and typhoons. They…
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Pasalubong
I have been preparing for a trip to my Mother Country, and have been thinking a lot of the people who made me who I am. How many lives have crossed to have me? They have crossed the seas and into mountains. My dad’s father came from a ship in China. Down my mother’s line…
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Bootcamp- Day Zero
They came in as rainbows and left in military greens, struggling into sameness. The rainbows were naive initiating smiles, which later turned into tears. She had joined a corporate cult, worshiping the red white and blues of tormented history and stolen land. She had joined in a delusion, and it unraveled before her as she…
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Polarity
It isn’t that she is bipolar, it just seems that way. One moment she is singing in the rain and as happy as a songbird, next minute she is silent and depressed under a Trumpism national state of oppression. It’s not so much that she is even depressed, but more pensive about ideas of melancholy…
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The Fast and Furious Life of Liz B.
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.” ~ Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao She was my roommate and bestie. She stripped at the place where there were hundreds of beautiful girls and one ugly one. But Liz was not…
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#himthough
In my last post I spoke about the #metoo movement, but I didn’t quite give insight to my personal story. Like many women out there, I have more than one I could tell. I’ve had the unfortunate experience falling into a pattern of abusive relationships. Some men were verbally abusive with hot tempers that grew,…
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Lamenting Self Dementia
I laughed at the beguiled bag behind the counter as she fell into Magpie’s frayed fantasy, playing the role of a fabricated twin. “Oh, she’s doing fine. It’s her first year in college. It’s amazing how you can tell us apart.” “I get to know my customers quite well,” the old lady replied. “You guys…