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"this is the world as best as I can remember it"

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Inviting Vikings

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The Vikings came, but by invitation.  The peoples of what is now Northern Russian needed assistance to bring order from chaos and turned to ...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Being Kurt Vonnegut

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I don't know doodley squat and here is the proof.  We have been staying at the Resident's Inn on the canal in Indianapolis at leas...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

I am writing now

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For twenty seven years, since the age of eighteen, I have been walking along, not looking back, in order to deal with a certain amount of...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

The Curve

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It's a white balloon that floats from place to place through time and space.  The string remains firmly tied to my corporeal self, b...
Friday, March 21, 2014

The Gesture

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"WHAT'S YOUR INTERPRETATION?" , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. The giant hand gestures at the homeless man ...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Re-Entry

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Life is a fall from a great height, a star-heart birth and journey through endless space. Meandering in the void until picking up spe...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

Purple Foot

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Purple Foot , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** left foot forward right to the rear a quick counter-clockwise spin of the tor...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

An Utter Fool

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*** My son is asleep in his bed and he is beautiful. He sleeps soundly, at peace, because love tucked him in. Watching him breathe...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Medical School Dropout - a cautionary tale

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Somewhere in the back of his muddled brain he seemed to recollect he'd been a medical student once, before the cognitive decline, t...
Friday, February 21, 2014

High Street

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Driving home 'round midnight on High Street steady rain falls putting a thick shine on every conceivable surface the lane li...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Watching the Wheels

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"People say I'm crazy, doin' what I'm doin'..." or so sings John Lennon, a man and his music that I've grown...
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Sunday, February 09, 2014

The Brothers K

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The Brothers K , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** I ask forgiveness for everything and from everyone without exception be...
Friday, February 07, 2014

A Family Portrait

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A family portrait of perfect strangers perfectly framed. Side by side, staggered, unsmiling, staring straight ahead. A glowing arr...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

The Melancholic Collector

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Big Hat , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** I don't want to build or own anything new but to use and inhabit what has come b...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Power Trio

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Power Trio , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. Today I switched hospitals with a colleague for the convenience of going to a doct...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Whatever It Takes

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whatever it takes to escape the pain if only for a minute whatever it takes to keep myself sane or even to admit it to take a hit to draw ...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

A Very Snowy Day

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A Very Snowy Day , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. A peculiar thing to see a squirrel dragging a cut of cloth, jumping from...
Saturday, January 25, 2014

Reading about Poetry

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Reading about Poetry... , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** Reading a book about writing poetry on a couch in front of a ...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

The Sweater

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The Sweater , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. I want to write about the sweater. It has wide stripes of black and red, only so...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Premature

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COSI , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** Perpetually born premature I live out these tenuous hours in my incubator of a ho...
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A. Monk
“Aaroneous Monk” brings to mind the image of a bumbling but well-meaning hermit who continually trips himself up in his overgrown beard as he attempts to battle evil in the world but, more often than not, forgets about the darkness in his own heart. It also sounds similar to the legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, but with a faux-Greek twist. Thelonious was known for being able to maintain two disparate rhythms going at the same time with his hands seemingly disconnected from each other. That kinda sums up my struggle...
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