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My friend, my contemporary, my metaphysical wizard, Asif Rahman, died this week... I am floor`eed. Asif was not my closest closest friend and i have not seen in him years, yet we spoke frequently, via emails and phone...I will miss him, I am at work and feel a swell of sadness pushing tears to the forfront of my eyes so I stop now.. He will be laid to rest tomorrow, I can't belief such a light,

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well, actually, he didn't get the boot, he had to take himself out of the equation because of some serious reasons and I'm not mad at him, we didn't sign any legally binding papers yet and we just begun to look at places, but i had a feeling ti might come to this, i love billy but i had a strange feeling it might not work out, better sooner than later, then i would have to kill him, but as it is,

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I am all about this new year and even though i received the annoying news from the NYC Board of Ed. that said they will not consider me for an interview into the NYC Fellows Program this year, I'm still happy. I mean, that was where I wanted the year to end up,, interview,, start training and taking course in June and be ready to teach for the next 2-3 years beginning in September 2008, with my

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I wish all my worries were about me and my roller skates, dancing out in the corner,, say me feeling great, oh Jah...and den we beat da man down, say we gone leave him red and blue, murder, murder, no man steal my radio, my music...I want to be that guy, dancing on his roller skates--having fun with the girls, says I'm feeling great!!!1Out on the corner With my roller skates Having fun with

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I had to bite my tongue so severely yesterday I almost bit it off. I mean I know living at home was, is and will continue to be difficult, but lord, so days I want to stick a screwdriver in my ear and be done with it all. Of course, I am grateful for everything my folks have done and I in know they are sacrificing their peace and the serenity they deserve to help me out for the next three

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I'm a box full of hollow, according to multiple tenuous rock, paper, scissor decision makers played against my current alter-ego(the 2x2x2 cardboard box) and the unnecessary pulling out of several of my God-like eyelashes; I'd either be a box full of hollow or a box full of dense things, those are the options. Okay, what the hell am I talking about? Check out "a part-apart's" blog to see what

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Wendy called on Friday and said she had work for me starting Tuesday, temp, just for a week at Getty Images, 75 Varick Str. The pay is pretty decent and its basic data entry, research, spreadsheet, blah blah; she called this morning and said it'll take another day or so for the background paperwork to go through, so I'll start the job on Thursday now instead, fine by me! Monday Night football

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I have been transformed, by sorts, I mean coming back to New York has really lit a flame inside me that just makes me happy to be living in the everyday; the Now realized, in parts. Yeah, New York is still full of rude, annoying, no eye contact making douche bags, but thats part of the charm; charm equal to disgust, but God I like it.In the Moment(new poem--10/19/07 5:40 pm)This is clear,this

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On the job hunt, howling at the midday Manhattan sky, the sun, lost in an opaque film of who cares and get out of my ways,, beautiful, back in New York, loving it. Went on a temp agency interview, no big deal, nothing to lose, basic stuff, but I've never been as calm in an interview as I was with this woman Wendy. If all interviews, big or small, could go like that, I'd be CEO of Mike's Cogs

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Back in New York...Left Austin, TX around 1:00pm Saturday and arrived in Queens at 2:00pm Tuesday. Feels good to be home, saw the folks, making my rounds; must find something more interesting to say, this is bunk! I mean, I'm no Diana Lang with her brilliant boxes within boxes concepts...fabulous!

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...the more your slip sliding away... and I'm happy for it.These are the last 50 minutes of work left here at The Castilian. I'm very glad to be going and of course I've met some pretty great people here and listen if they could work with me and tolerate me then they have to great. A few of the RA's waited for me to come in last night and they had a cake and some cards and parting gifts and it

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I meant to make the next five days a sort of tribute to Texas but as usual my head went into automatic slouch mode, even in the midst of a personally momentous event, well, here I am so lets get to it. I stopped in the last post in mid praise of Pinkie, all that and a bowl of chili if I recall.Okay, to the next point. Well I lived in what is somewhat of the outskirts of Austin, up by Duval and

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In a week from today I'll be getting ready to pack my boxes of essentials into the Chevy Blazer I rented. By the next morning, Saturday the 29th , I'll be driving out of Austin, Texas, two and half years after I blew into it, my life and my spirit all the better for having been here. Big Casino asked me the other day what my favorite memory of living in Austin was. I was pretty stumped. I

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Late to the game and having fallen off as a fan for the last decade, I haven't really followed up on their success and it seems they have had quite a bit of it, especially in Europe. Albums like Salvation, released in 2000 and 'Prostitute', released in 1994, have been claimed by critics and fans as some of the best stuff they have ever produced. 'Prostitute' has fans claiming Marian Gold's

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It is really satisfying to see people appreciating the same (at least what I had perceived to be) obscure music as I do. In this case I'm referring to the 80's German electro-synth-pop-rock band, Alphaville.Alphaville had pretty widespread success since their 1983 inception into the music world of New Wave so its not like 'nobody' has ever heard of them or at the very least, any of their

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Power, power, power, power....to have power like a Nina Simone I just might run to the Devil, but then of course, the song 'Sinner Man' would be written about me, the envious.Loot introduced me to that song, 'Sinner Man' a few years ago and I recognized it from The Thomas Crown Affair, but to listen to it in what seems a quite necessary 10 plus minutes, especially that last minute and a half or

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Your a bum, your a punk, your a no lousy drunk....and your excessive blogging and interacting in the web 2.0 world is killing culture.Culture hasn't just begun to die, has it? Am I not, by the very act of 'thinking' about this, utilizing a part of my intellect, my ability to use my own 'individual' intuition(ok, that might be a stretch--no exit right) that helps to secure the structure that

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I continued with the story of my experiences on 9/11 down at the bottom half of the blog below.The rest of the day of 9/11 became a but hazy between the eating at the deli, the fixing of my car and there after. I just don't really remember what went on. And I can't really explain why.Its just, perhaps, like any other day 6 years ago that you try to recollect. Maybe you remember the

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Being the intrepid sleeper that I am, not to mention a world class snorer, I was snoozing comfortably in my bed in Oneonta, an upstate NY college town, when the constant ringing of the phone outside my bedroom door irritated me into consciousness, again. The phone rang every too often for a good 40 minutes. I would hear the ringing, curse under my breath and cuddle myself back into sleep.

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So, I have two weeks to go before I return to NYC to begin my 'adult' life. That sounds ridiculous, but at 30, its way over due. I say that but I don't mean it, as far as I haven't lived as an adult and surely in the last 2 and half Texan years I have done just that, just minus the cushy situation of a 'career' and/or sufficient moneys in the bank. Calma, calma as Papa would say, it'll come.So

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I am moved, in the dwindling moments of my shift to collect my memories of 9/11, 'The Original'. I read sevenred's account of that day, sevenred of course was as close to the belly of the madness as anyone I know, still living, and I was some 3 and a half hours north of NYC in a small college town called Oneonta. Since my time is at this very moment over, I'll have to get back to this tonight

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I have been inspired to this by the reading of sevenred.net 's blog postings.I have only been posting my poems and such from time to time on my space.Besides that, it takes me quite some time to come up with something that has enough thought put into it as to seem worthy of anyone's trouble to follow me to this my new blog-home. I have several places where I already post my poetry. For all the

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