Tozerboy

Rule 213
Mass Transportation Etiquette
Obviously personal and preventative hygiene is best undertaken in the privacy of your own home. However occasionally moments arise when it becomes necessary to make a hygienic adjustment in public. This can be particularly awkward when using a mode of public transportation. If you have to blow your nose, for example, while [...]

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Horoscope
Libra
For 03/30/2006
Just when you were thinking it might be safe to come out, and that the intrigue of the past few days might be over — well, you’ve just discovered that it’s not. Fortunately, the secrecy is over. The universe seems to have decided to not only take your side and coax you out [...]

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“By looking up I see downward.”
Tycho Brahe
I’m not sure I believe in astrology. I’m not saying I don’t either. Whenever I read a horoscope, the irony of what has been written doesn’t escape me, but I think that can be attributed to skillful, coy writing. Sometimes though the prophecy does send a chill down [...]

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I heard a Robin this morning as I was waking. I haven’t seen one yet, but maybe today. Spring really is in the air, full of promise. It is a pregnant time for me too. Lots of possiblitiy, some of it risky, I suppose, and all of it up to me. And my daughter is [...]

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You seem to dance with me
and I wonder why.
I surely dance with you
and also wonder why.
We
do not touch,
we
do not talk.
I never hear you breathe,
smell your breath,
or fall into your neck and hair,
when I pass
the edge
and fall.
And
I wonder why.
Do you imagine,
the way I imagine,
your perfect body
upon my bed
surrendered?

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I had it all set. It had taken me a few blocks, but everything was balanced. My hat was on just right, holding my new cheap earphones in place. If I don’t have the hat on right, all I hear is treble, forget the bass. I guess I’ll have to get new headphones when it [...]

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Green trucks, green chairs and green water
All flow through my thoughts.
A constant color.
Each one a reminder of a pleasant surrender.
Your slender arms, clinging and holding
Me, so completely, that I can’t forget that
I was young, and you were young and
Perfect too.
A brief moment when your perfect body
Was held close to my perfect body,
Resisting only the river’s [...]

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The blog is a week old now and I’m pretty happy with it. The feedback from friends has been positive, well mostly.Dar said, “Fabulous. I’m so glad — you’re a great writer and an interesting thinker and you should use those talents. Others should enjoy them. Arcs and circles indeed. But how can you be [...]

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Boston Common
Thursday, March 23, 2006
4:41 PM
A young man speaking loudly into his cell phone.
“Who did you sleep with last?”
“No, no, no, no! Was it a boy or a girl?”
“Oh my God you’re tedious. OK! How many girls, did you FOOL AROUND with in the last six months?”
“How many boys did you fool around with in [...]

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New shoes, white shirt,
A noisy T ride.
A cold common walk.
I finally arrive.
No boss,
A late boy.
Car crash ring tones
Wait, coffee, wait,
Wait, wait,
Wait,
Wait.
Two live Kennedys,
One quite cute.
Talk, email, coffee and calls.
A boring gray desk,
And tired old men,
Time to set-up,
Hurry and wait.
Trips back and forth,
Load up, uncoil,
Set-up, tape down.
A splinter removed.
Too many text messages,
About amazing rich men,
Time passes [...]

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