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Cactus Yordy
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Mar 13, 2022

The angst of driving my car

I am large, I contain multitudes; when I am 15-over I actualize a need to be seen as Battinson, a small man in a large car, going fast and trending faster, losing and winning a war of wills, even of worlds, between my annual safe-driving reimbursement and the asphalt-as-therapist, a…

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Jan 28, 2022

There’s no crying in baseball

Where will you turn, young slugger, when the tears begin to streak and the crowd begins to roar? Amongst your team, the dugout, a den of lions who prefer to eat their young, to feast on the unworthy? They saw the way your slider won’t slide, your curve stopped curving…

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Dec 8, 2021

Putting it all together

Cigarettes after sex after dinner, after a delicate tartare with an egg yolk running loose over our intertwined utensils, after a full-bodied red that soaked up all the light in the room, save against your face and outstretched hand, after a cocktail now with yuzu and a bright-green sprig of…

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Oct 12, 2021

Play the hits

Lately, it feels that ordinary pleasures, basic indulgences, are trickling-tickling especially deep down inside my brain stem. Bluefin tuna, a local lager, a few extra hours for a few more pages of my water-stained novel. Chatter and discourse surround the ‘cottage,’ a desperate modern relay towards simplicity, ordinary fervor, beauty…

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Sep 21, 2021

Sub and Supra

Getting over or staying under — Between hooks and teeth, in my side or through my neck, there are a few things I’ll allow to take hold of me, cornering me in my own Stockholm-ian enclave, deep in the desert. …

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Sep 8, 2021

Giving & Taking

Be good to me, be good to me, in so many aching ways with and without reason I want to be good for you. Believing as much, that I give to the Holy Mountain as much as it gives to me, in tablet and cuneiform, I walk back down from…

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Jul 25, 2021

We need to talk about the Bergschrund

A summer impasse on the highest peak in Wyoming — For a vast majority of the year, the Gooseneck Glacier is supremely intact, held together naturally by cold weather at nearly 13,000 feet of elevation. In the late summer, baking under warmer temperatures with afternoon sunlight, the once-stable glacier cleaves in two, slowly widening through the season, snowbridges that occasionally…

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Jun 8, 2021

We’ll always have Paris (and social anxiety)

A reckoning — I was sick and dreaming through a heavy sweat, an overnight fever. Accompanying me: shells, shrouds, ghosts, and ghouls, filing cabinets of half-lives and quarter-turns forsaken in a long arc of cautious decisions and a hundred more reckless. There is a monastery, a stethoscope, a field of green turf lined…

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May 19, 2021

The Open Floor Plan

Optimizing your daily hours — I have found it easy, in 2021, to see multitudes of daily actions and interactions as problems to be solved. Loads of social media appears incorrigibly ‘as therapist,’ either as a quick fix towards a brighter future or as soothing content to rub aloe over the emotional void; here is…

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The Open Floor Plan
The Open Floor Plan

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May 10, 2021

The struggle will bring us together, and love will tear us apart

I am elated with the sweat on your long, broad brow. We are in a double helix of careful attention, one rung, and then the next, building a length of a chemical vessel, and being quite good, years down the way, myriads of college students will bring to mind how…

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