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Kim Nelson: The Magnetic Draw
A song can bring back a memory so vivid and poignant that it can break your heart. Our lives are so long, there are so many memories that get buried or forgotten when suddenly, a few opening chords can...
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Anita Mechler: The Devil’s Watering Hole [Repost]
Nostalgia Hits me again Like a thirst in the back of my throat that I cannot whet. Soothed only by Clear, crisp water Over round river rocks And minnows gasping For air on the hot white Limestone. The...
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Anita Mechler: The Devil’s Watering Hole [Repost]
Nostalgia Hits me again Like a thirst in the back of my throat that I cannot whet. Soothed only by Clear, crisp water Over round river rocks And minnows gasping For air on the hot white Limestone. The...
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Murphy Row: My Stupid Little Tattoo
I have a tattoo. Some people call it the dumbest tattoo they have ever seen, some people never even notice it. I see it every day, and it helps me focus on being the man I want to be. It inspires me to...
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David Jester: Amnesiac Moments Indistinct in a Fog of Memory
The problem isn’t that I am not listening, or tuning you out. But in the end, your words empty from my mind, like sand through a sieve. I have always had a poor memory. As a child I learned strictly...
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Jeff Phillips: You Know Jimmy
The first time I lived by myself was in a one-bedroom apartment on Winthrop, a few blocks south of Bryn Mawr in Chicago. It was on the 5th floor, on one side of the U shaped building, and my windows...
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Aaron Pylinski: in healing
love hidden is between the lines. sometimes in my most harassing dreams i can escape to a thought of you. but now it is only a distant memory. those days gone by and now i ponder sadly the predicament...
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It’s always unsettling to discover things that are unnatural or out of place. Like finding your parents porn stash or nude photos of Trump, there are things you know to be truths, but your mind simply...
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Anita Mechler: Memory
[This edited poem was inspired by a collaborative poem I wrote with another workshop attendee named Kathy facilitated through Story Studio Chicago.] A 3am haunting, The witching hour of loneliness....
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Jeff Phillips: You Know Jimmy
I was doing laundry one night, and as I was leaving my apartment to switch my load to the dryer, I heard an elderly woman’s voice from down the hallway call out “is that you Jimmy?” I replied “No, it’s...
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