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Not a Very Good Time By Joe S. Thomas
*** More of my good friend and the evil bastard insomnia visiting me tonight after hearing the morons I have to live among wrenching doors open and digging through the kitchen like 400 pound cockroaches at 2 A.M… And people wonder why I hate, why I’m suicidal… Do you really have to think that hard… Continue reading
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Windsor Court By Joe S. Thomas
*** I woke up today with thoughts of Windsor Court in my mind… I believe that’s my subconscious begging for a bit of punishment or perhaps some nostalgia for things long past and even dead… Windsor Court, it sounds so elegant… And the neighborhood itself was at one time… Two and three story, beautiful homes… Continue reading
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Reading “Molly” By Joe S. Thomas
*** I’m reading a book that’s breaking my heart… It’s also making me relate wholeheartedly to a beautiful person that chose to take her life… The book is : Molly. It was written by her husband Blake Butler… My heart does go out to him, yet my heart goes out even more so to Molly… Continue reading
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No Name (from the new 2024 collection) Poem by Joe S. Thomas
*** I am not My father Goddamn right That’s true Our blood still mingles Like the repulsive Red white and blue That blood is tainted With drunks, addicts And waste No, I’m not My father But I can Understand His place Continue reading
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“Kitchen’s Closed, Man” By Joe S. Thomas
*** I recall when I had to live in my sister’s basement in order to pay child support and stay out of jail many years ago… I was working over 40 hours a week and the money I got to keep in my pocket equaled out to be about $37.00 to $40.00 a week after… Continue reading
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There’s Just No Blueprint By Joe S. Thomas
*** Somehow I have just now become hip to Mary Karr… Better late than never I always say… I’m reading her Memoir The Liars’ Club… I’m at the part where she is visiting her grandmother at the hospital who had to have her leg amputated due to some sort of Cancer… Of course, losing my… Continue reading
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Mundane or Miraculous, Miraculous or Mundane By Joe S. Thomas
*** It’s been longer than I’d like to go since I’ve written in this journal… I’ve been working on a book of (dare I say) “poetry” called Laughing Madly Through Pain and Regret: Words 2024… A lot of the same things have been going on and poetry has taken over the therapy for which these… Continue reading