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737

June 16, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

She is different

Nonconforming

Underdog

Only a backpack

Roaming the world

No one will ever tame her

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June 10, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Sharm-el Sheikh

Egypt

Smoking shisha pipes

Bedouin tribes now lead dives

Pour her some more rum

She

Cannot

Keep

Eyes

Off

Tan

Italian

Beach Bum

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June 4, 2024May 22, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Kyoto

Japan

Dimly lit hanging lanterns

Elegantly dressed

Determined

Geisha

Glide

Along

Narrow

Cobbled

Walkways

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May 28, 2024May 1, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Sometimes

I

Remember

The

Hunt

For

Knowledge

All night

University

Study Room

Mixing

Drinking

Coffee & Mountain Dew

Taking

Breaks

Playing

Go

With

Korean

Ocean Engineering major

Friend

We

Both

Acquiring

The

Discipline

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May 26, 2024May 1, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Slave to the chips

Blackjack juiced his veins

Casino was his domain

Greed kept him in chains

Lost the rent wife would complain

Pawn it all to stay in game

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May 24, 2024May 1, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

The old lady

Always fed husband cabbage soup

He died in sixties

She lived well into nineties

Investing savings wisely

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May 16, 2024May 1, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

Surrounded

By

Flustered

Tourists

Taking

Selfies

The old man

Took

Leisurely

Snaps

With

Polaroid camera

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May 14, 2024May 1, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Watch body language

Reveals true message

Listen carefully

Loose lips speak reality

Intuition provides safety

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April 30, 2024March 27, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Lost time

Holding protest sign

Frequently

Changed

Mates

Shake

Shake

Shake

Now too late

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April 24, 2024March 27, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

all day

tire changer

swiftly

with

precision

performs

muscular ballet

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April 20, 2024March 27, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

Always at the track

The Gambler puffs his cigar

Sitting at the bar

Reading the racing sheets like

it was his sacred bible

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April 16, 2024March 27, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

My bicycle is chained to undernourished palm tree

I’m sitting at a hot dog stand

Next to a middle-age man

He is trying to act smooth

Wearing

Polyester suit

Gold pinky ring

Fake Rolex watch

Cheap shoes

Talking with his mouth full

Pitching

Over & over

Great deal

He can give me

On used “set of wheels”

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April 8, 2024March 27, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

She is invisible

Pregnant

Working graveyard shift

 Immigrant

Scrubbing toilets sweeping dirt

Says better than country of birth

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March 30, 2024February 29, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

holding beer can in paper sack

he sat on the dirty sidewalk

enshrined

by the shadow

against the building

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March 26, 2024February 29, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

alone with sand and stones

face and sunglasses covered with dust

mind in no rush

body temperature warns time to go

walk back to motorcycle

continue on empty road

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March 18, 2024February 29, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Heavy Rain commences

Another wet season

Termites on the attack

More wood consumed

Me and the missus

Ponder

Will we pass away before shack collapses from decay?

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March 10, 2024February 29, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Few months away

20 years no cell phone

Wife

Capitulated

Purchased her own $39.99 smartphone

I knew something was up

After two days

She finally fessed-up

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March 2, 2024February 29, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

long drawn-out rain drips

peeling wallpaper

newspapers

books

scattered on the floor

his mind constantly craves more

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February 2, 2024January 30, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

No expensive toys
Laughing
Smiling
Riding water buffalo
Free entertainment for children

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January 24, 2024January 5, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

Roofing

Eight stories tall

Do not fall

Shirt off

Sun cooking my skin

Long day

Muscles hurt

Tomorrow

Do it again

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January 18, 2024January 5, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

prey on those living in misery

crush disadvantaged

use legal system for advantage

accumulate luxury frivolous things

ego sings

fool peasants with razzle-dazzle

free pass for the jackals

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January 8, 2024January 5, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

sidewalk

busy intersection

pacing

around and around and around

hysterically

scratching

lottery card

the lady stopped

raised her arms

called out

over and over and over

“I won 5 bucks”

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January 6, 2024January 5, 2024 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

give just a little

take a lot

you always ask for a doggy bag

extra packets of sugar in the pocket

scrapping leftover bits from your dinner plate

small takes

subsisting as a cheapskate

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December 26, 2023December 1, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

followed by ducks

the fisherman walks

chewing betel nut

content

spending most days

sitting on the bank

casting his line into the river

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December 16, 2023December 1, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

her soul

desires more

masquerading as a whore

grinding

on selective flesh

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December 8, 2023December 1, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

No tan lines

Shell necklace

Bazaar purchased dresses

Collects feathers

Wanders

No commitments

Only

Men and Women

With

Savoir-faire

Are

Her

Conquests

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November 28, 2023October 29, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Woman

Hauling

Water

Uphill

Smiling

Gestures

If I would like a drink

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October 30, 2023October 12, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Leaving

No farewell

Wear the mask

Seamless

Transition

From

Slum

To

Corporate world

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September 20, 2023September 2, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Looking

At her art

In the gallery

She

Remembered

The young girl

On the way to school

Learning from street graffiti

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September 16, 2023September 2, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

The

Mannequin

Always

Sits

Back of the room

Hair is shoe polish black

Facial skin pulled back

2nd hand threads

Pressed

Dated

From way back

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September 10, 2023September 2, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

Another

Slow business day

Shopkeeper

Engulfed

 By

 Magazines and newspapers

Eats a microwave meal

On a chipped plate

Internet controls fate

Scraps

Scraped off

 For

 Pooch under table

Nothing

 Anymore

 Stable

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September 8, 2023September 2, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Tattered gloves

Two young boxers

In the street

Momentous dreams

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September 4, 2023September 2, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 3 Comments

The

Gigolo

multiple times a day

admired himself in the mirror,

until

he no longer adored

what he observed.

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June 1, 2023May 31, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

The Dandy

Walks off the bus

Gracefully

Opens his umbrella

Strolls

Like he stepped off a private jet

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May 16, 2023May 1, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

California

Works

Copacabana Beach

He provides Gringos

Beach chairs

Food

Chopps

Caipirinhas

Introduction to a female friend is FREE

Great time

Hot sol

South of Equator

Hook up with new lady friend

Dinner

Dancing

Whatever

Later

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May 8, 2023May 1, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

Everyday

Wears

White Tilley hat

Multicolored braid

Walks with a cane

Slowly crosses A1A

Sits in chair

On beach sand

Next to lifeguard stand

Writing short stories that do not sell

What the hell

Lost ambition long ago

Would not trade situation

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April 6, 2023March 27, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

Frail woman

Worn dirty clothes

Chewing nails

Resting on cement bench

Looking

Far away

Maybe for a better place

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March 30, 2023March 1, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ 1 Comment

Polished black shoes

Pressed clean white shirt

Red power tie

The middle-aged man

Proudly stands at bus stop

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March 24, 2023March 1, 2023 ~ Edge of Humanity Magazine ~ Leave a comment

Walking

Stopping

The exhausted warrior

Turned around

Gazed

At his foot prints

Then tossed his weapon

Into the snow

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Relax

Be patient

Sit by the river with your fishing pole

Most of all

Do not be dragged down the rabbit hole

Overtime

Bad character

Will be exposed

Then you will completely know

It is time get up

And

Permanently

Walk away from the sideshow

 

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For a long time

She had suffered much

No longer heard the beautiful sounds

Of the garden chimes

Final days

I sat in a chair

Next to her hospital bed

In the end

“I no longer believe”

Is what she said

 

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Leaning

Against the tile wall

Taking a long hot shower

Scrubbing

Away the dirt

With a new bar of soap

Did not

Remove humiliation

But

Provided

Her

A bit of hope

 

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Frantically

Scratching

At his deformed image

In the mirror

Hyperventilating

He cried

“Please help I need air”

Fallen idol

Emotional bowl of jello

Desecrated soul

Pissed in his own rice bowl

Alone

There are no more calls

No longer the star

Of the Masquerade balls

 

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Husband Who Really Upset Hot Blooded Wife

Pour me some bourbon

I just upset my women

Do you have spare bed?

She wants to chop off my head

Bartender help or I’m dead

 

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Stories

From

Men, Women, Marriage, Relationships, Friendship, Love & Sex

 

Elite make the rules
Peasants follow just like mules
Feed me leftovers
Send young men to be soldiers
Bow down to the pawnbroker

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Privileged
Less privileged
Social climbers
Boomerang slackers
Believe in the good book
Or burn in hell
Pray five times a day
Study Quran
Or an infidel
Sprinkle ancient dust here and there
Until on their deathbed
Atheists do not seem to care
Who is right?
Who is wrong?
Respect each other’s beliefs
Start getting along
Before humankind is gone

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Fed beast for long time

Today woke up changed my mind

Freedom what I need

Veins dry nothing left to bleed

Tomorrow will sow new seeds

 

Stories 

From

Peeling Off The Human Condition

 

Bahia

Walking along the Praia
I met a lady
With
Long black hair streaked with gray
She whispered:
“Make love to me
only
this one time
and
I promise
Macumba
will make sure you always remember tonight.”
Now
Alone
My Dreams
Always the same
Sitting on a milk crate
Using a hacksaw
Trying to cut chains from my legs
Back-and-Forth
Back-and-Forth
Back-and-Forth

 

Yucatan Peninsula
Mexico

Lying in hammock
Cigarette hanging from mouth
Soles of feet badly cracked
The fisherman
Mumbled
To his dog
Stop
Licking
Bottle of tequila
On dirt ground

 

Travel Tales

From

Travels With The Hermit Poet

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When feeling alone
I visit snakes in garden
Outcasts-Friends that last

 

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Boots places on stoop
Morning garden duties done
Time to watch moss grow

 

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Year after year
Designing, hauling, digging
Section after section
The hermit painstakingly
created his dream garden

 

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Humble on my knees
Casually pulling weeds
My garden comforts me

 

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Drops summer rain
Heliconia & gingers
No longer thirsty

 

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Garden Tales

 From 

Tropical Garden Stories

 

 

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