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Rebecca fantasized that life was a lottery ticket or a pull of a lever,
that one of the bunch in her pocket was a winner or the slots were a redeemer;
but life itself was not real that was strictly for the mentally insane at the Elgin
Mental Institution..
She gambled her savings away on a riverboat
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Soft nursing
5 solid minutes
of purr
paw peddling
like a kayak competitor
against ripples of my
60 year old river rib cage–
I feel like a nursing mother
but I’m male and I have no nipples.
Sometimes I feel afloat.
Nikki is a little black skunk,
kitten, suckles me for milk,
or affection?
But she is 8 years old a cat.
I’m her substitute mother,
afloat in a flower [...]

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Crippled with arthritis
and Alzheimer’s,
in a dark rented room
Charley, plays
melancholic melodies
on a dust filled
harmonica he
found abandoned
on a playground of sand
years ago by a handful of children
playing on monkey bars.
He now goes to the bathroom on occasion,
peeing takes forever; he feeds the cat when
he doesn’t forget where the food is stashed at.
He hears bedlam [...]

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Ginger bread lady,
no sugar or cinnamon spice,
years ago arthritis and senility took their toll.
Crippled mind movies in then out, like an old sexual adventure,
blurred in an imagination of finger tip thoughts–
who in hell remembers the characters?
Their was George her lover near the bridge at the Chicago River
she missed his funeral, her friends were there.
She always [...]

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Brian was Catholic in the way that a lot of Catholics are. He didn’t get to mass every Sunday, he hadn’t made an act of contrition in a decade at least, and he ate meat on Fridays during Lent. But there was one thing he was certain of, and that was that he intended to [...]

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James had just moved to the suburbs from the city after living downtown for eight years. It was only then that he was mugged in front of a convenience store only a few blocks from his apartment building. The men that mugged him were black and had, James figured, come from the neighborhood across the [...]

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Nancy was stuck with the ugly guy while her friend was somewhere behind the shopping center screwing his better-looking friend, Stuart. They didn’t say much to each other while they waited for the other two; instead they smoked cigarettes and listened to the radio that the ugly guy had been carrying with him when they [...]

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