Tagged: american
the neighbors compete
the neighbors compete
to see who is even more
ecuadorian-
american – flags waving,
pumpkins piled high, still grilling
.
20211019:1905
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on the journey to
on the journey to
as american as apple
pie, we learn to yield
.
20191225:1818
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: yield
outside of collecting
to relent to
to relent to
this better
safe than sorry
foreign policy
is to realize
how far
we have strayed
from serving the
many and how
easily greatness
can be redefined
.
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i cannot remember
i cannot remember
the taste of the hot
chocolate, or whether
there were anything
especially Hungarian
about it, but i do recall
your smile and how
American you look
.
20101205:2218
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how to walk off an
how to walk off an
American dream: openly
drink your way through it
.
20100729:2210
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20080208
the problem with having too much
space in the morning
to air your thoughts
is that you have to have more
thoughts. this is
as natural and irrefutable
as folding bedsheets
at eight a.m. alone
only to unfurl them
at eight p.m., still
alone, with barely
a clap of fabric
to acknowledge the latitude
.
20080208:1017
In this world of hierarchies,
I guess we all need something beneath us.
– Jonathan Mooney, The Short Bus
almost american
.
you can’t coax an orange to grow
the way you can a migrant worker to
climb two stories into a tree of
thorns, atop a ladder nestled in
insecurity. you can also convince
him to stay up there until he picks
a nearest full ninety-nine-
pound sack, and then you can press him
into repeating himself sixty, seventy,
or eighty times – depending
on the fairness of
sky – and by nightfall
you can stuff forty-nine
dollars into his pocket and one
juicy orange into each of ours
.
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