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Ordinary Average Thoughts

Confounding expectations since 1963

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What happens when you get what you want? (a poem)

2016/08/11 — Leave a comment

Inspired by a call for writing about ‘what pop culture did for you, to you, and with you in the 1990s’, I go back to 1992 (though the photo is from 1991)…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged 1992, anxiety, August 2016, limbo, Nirvana references, poem, poetry, Xanax. Bookmark the permalink.

Dear Thursday…

2016/08/11 — Leave a comment

Dear Thursday,

Ninety-fourth time’s a charm?

Love,
Kevin

(11 August 2016)

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Half-asleep poem (a poem)

2016/08/10 — Leave a comment

Typed this on my laptop this morning as I was drifting in and out of sleep…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2016, drowsy, half-asleep, poem, poetry, vague images. Bookmark the permalink.

Dear Wednesday…

2016/08/10 — Leave a comment

Dear Wednesday,

I’m hoping you can hurry them along—but if not, we’re still cool.

Love,
Kevin

(10 August 2016)

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Yet my driver’s license still doesn’t require corrective lenses (a poem)

2016/08/09 — Leave a comment

Still trying to adequately describe my screwy vision—I’m near-sighted in one eye, and far-sighted in the other—in poem form. I’m not there yet, but this one gets a little closer…
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2016, blur, eyesight, poem, poetry, problems. Bookmark the permalink.

Dear Tuesday…

2016/08/09 — Leave a comment

My Facebook status this morning. I liked it so much, I decided to use it…

Dear Tuesday,

My cats are the studio audience, and the producers just switched on the ANNOY KEVIN sign…

Love,
Kevin

(9 August 2016)

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Survey the damage (a poem)

2016/08/08 — Leave a comment

Based on Sill Lives: Cactus Tea, by Lauren Sandler.
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This entry was posted in Life, Musings, Poetry, Writing and tagged August 2016, ekphrastic, Lauren Sandler, poem, poetry, Sill Lives: Cactus Tea, simplicity. Bookmark the permalink.

Dear Monday…

2016/08/08 — Leave a comment

Dear Monday,

There’s always something else to change, isn’t there?

Love,
Kevin

(8 August 2016)

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Dear Sunday…

2016/08/07 — Leave a comment

Dear Sunday,

It’s always the little things, isn’t it?

Love,
Kevin

(7 August 2016)

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Mistakes (a poem)

2016/08/06 — Leave a comment

A small thought…
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