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Deciding not to go to Junior Prom

Posted on April 14, 2010 by gimble
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“I just want to feel
pretty,” she says through her tears.
She already is.

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Radio interview

Posted on April 9, 2010 by gimble
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You ask, I answer.
Opinions fly. No right, wrong.
It’s all subjective.

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Levenger

Posted on April 9, 2010 by gimble
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Trying to make work
indulgent, a nine-to-five
wage slave’s fantasy.

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Cold snap

Posted on April 9, 2010 by gimble
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Lulled by summer’s false
start, forty degrees reminds
us that April lies.

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Writing

Posted on April 8, 2010 by gimble
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Rubik’s cube of words
adjectives nouns verbs form a
perfect turn of phrase.

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Rain

Posted on April 7, 2010 by gimble
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Like eyes heavy with
grief, grey clouds spill a steady
patter of sorrow.

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Undone

Posted on April 7, 2010 by gimble
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Pulling apart a
life together, the future
frays like a cut edge.

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Ending

Posted on April 7, 2010 by gimble
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It happens over
coffee, one stunned, the other
already elsewhere.

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Realization

Posted on April 7, 2010 by gimble
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She woke up seeing
him in a different light
flame sputtering out.

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Facebook status after the breakup

Posted on April 7, 2010 by gimble
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“There’s always rain at
the most appropriate times
in my life,” he wrote.

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