in town

 
I wasn’t lying when I said I like it here
in this gritty pretty town.
Sure, many people around
float dangerously close to despair,
flatten all expression from their eyes-
I’ve stood behind them at the grocery store
as they counted out cash
for cigarettes and dog food.
I smiled at the cashier when it came my turn,
paid for my rubber toilet plunger
with [...]

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Storm

Weather.  It happens.  We talk about it.  Right now the weather is snow, and I am rather enjoying that.  I always get happy when I see snowflakes falling from the sky, especially when there are a lot of them, even though I know that a snowstorm means danger on the roads for some people, and [...]

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hometown

Yesterday some dude in Rutland stabbed another dude in the Walmart parking lot, in broad daylight.  They were fighting about $40 one guy apparently owed the other guy.  Forty dollars!  Doesn’t seem worth it.  But I guess anger (and possibly drugs) can make you do crazy things, things you wouldn’t do in a calm, rational state-of-mind.  [...]

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