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1-18-11 On a train to NYC

Taking a commuter train to the city from Newark. It's full of people in heavy winter clothes; there's still snow on the ground, and it's grey and rainy. The weather suits the moods and mannerisms of the people here, or maybe it's the other way around. The east coast is, not surprisingly, a far out trip from its western...
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1-7-11 Uniondale, NY
This morning's introduction to the world dances to the propane flame flicking one of those fake ceramic logs in the hotel lobby. Basking in its scant glow, the obligatory bowl of styrofoam fruit lounges in eternal ripeness. Not terrible semblances of their requisite natural forms, save for the occasional perforation of the skin, revealing its true form. Some christmas decorations adorn the...
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11-1-10 On a bus to Birmingham

Another charter haul over lonely asphalt, draped in the cloak of night air sporadically punctured by glowing streetlights and the droning, subdued presence of passing, overtaken, or oncoming fellows in transit. The witching hour has always held my attention lingering about its solemn openness and emptyness; bewitching not by its haunting, spectral semblance, but rather for the total lack...
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10-19-10 North Charleston, SC - Woke up to the sound of my head reeling from the sudden intrusion of the world coming into focus; hungover, neck tweaked, and with the foggy memory of chipping the corner off my front tooth last night. Definitely should have eaten something before last night's dip in the ocean of booze. It had been a while since the last time...
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