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OF COURSE THEY DID

A Poem by Vol

At Stogies, my beer and tobacco bar, I hang out with poets, writers, and good friends. We bring the stuff we’ve written, and dr..

ORIGINALITY

A Poem by Vol

Doe rae MEEEE Fa So Laaaa TEEEEE DOE! Doe Rae me, Fah So La, teeeee Dough! DAMN! The one th..

WRITE A FIVE PAGE ANALYSIS

A Poem by Vol

In my Tennesseesmall-town career,I gave everything Ihad to my students.They were so young!Their mental database was a virtual encyclopedia with a mill..

ODE

A Poem by Vol

Weep for the dreams, the sweet dreams of youth when we sang in the sunshine and we laughed every day. Weep for your life that gets ..

OBLIVIOUS

A Poem by Vol

Sometimes, the muse takes a nap. Like now, when I’m supposed to write about pines. No matter how hard I think, how sharp my pe..

A PINT AT THE OLD GRANERY PUB

A Poem by Vol

In today’s reality of things that are only there in some virtual way, my vision is blurred, and not just in these old brown eye..

This is not a story

A Story by Vol

This!!!Ursula LeGuin, Says what I've always believed... all art is dangerous, has fangs and carries a gun. When you encounter it, your realitychanges,..

TIME IS DEAD

A Poem by Vol

Sometimes I think there is no past or future, just this point we call “Now.” But if that is so, where did all these ..

ECHOS

A Poem by Vol

We left the door open when we went to bed. I turned to the dog-ear where we left off and read to us until I couldn't any more, put t..

Why?

A Story by Vol

I asked why the first word of every line is capitalized in poetry? These are the answers:I find the opposite to be true. The first word of a line is o..