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~~For reasons unrelated to Akira’s death, my family broke apart and went their own ways~~. El Paso, Texas. Washington, D.C. Seattle, Washington, I ended up in San Francisco a year afterwards and many times walked the streets in search for something that “called” to me, that “spoke”. Evista FOR SALE, Something that fulfilled the emptiness.

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Just to make a long blog post a little longer, here’s a little poem I wrote during a writing generation workshop with Jan Frazier, to whom I am greatly indebted. I’d attended a month-long poetry retreat at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT in 2004 and presented this along with some other poems for a manuscript critique with Richard Jackson. He said this was the strongest poem of the bunch. It’s not changed much and was published by bakkamagazine.com in April 2008. I wrote it for my friend Vada, who was bedside with me for some of the worst times.

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in futility the flesh
we cursed the blood
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of everyday things—
as if you were already
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I was squat shelling peas
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