Category Archives: poetry

If the bus were cool.

Posted on January 12, 2009 by spider

If the bus were cool, more people would ride it. If the bus were cool, car drivers wouldn’t be frightened of the “dangers” of sharing their motorized transit with folks they don’t know – delinquents and vandals. If the bus … Continue reading →

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less is more

Posted on April 8, 2007 by spider

Whether due to circumstance or nature, I cannot say for sure, but I am a big believer in ‘traveling light’. I feel better when I shed the extra baggage that I – like you – pick up along the path … Continue reading →

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I love this!

Posted on April 8, 2007 by xtina

What Every Woman Should Have and Know By Maya Angelou A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE … enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own even if she never wants to or needs to… A … Continue reading →

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why we do it

Posted on December 12, 2006 by xtina

I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said, ‘You can’t,’ ‘You can never be sure.’ ‘You die without knowing,’ ‘Whether anything you wrote was any good.’ ‘If … Continue reading →

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An Ode to Black Tea (& Love)

Posted on November 15, 2006 by xtina

Black tea buoys me It lifts me through my day It makes me feel like a hummingbird Sucking sweet nectar from a bright red flower Alive and swimming on the rich crest of life. When my husband makes me a … Continue reading →

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On the sad state of the Oakland Raiders

Posted on September 12, 2006 by spider

The following is the series of text messages exchanged last night as I witnessed the once-proud Raiders fall flat on their collective face on national television, where they proceeded to get shut out by the Chargers, losing, jeezuseiytchcryse, 27 to … Continue reading →

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an ode to eggs

Posted on May 3, 2006 by xtina

oh the wonderful flexibility & charm of eggs with bread with tortillas with cheese with vegetables you can make a plethora of delicious foods with eggs some may decry their origin from an orifice adjacent to the anus i say … Continue reading →

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V for Vendetta

Posted on March 19, 2006 by spider

V’s monologue: This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone … Continue reading →

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boom chicka chicka

Posted on April 18, 2002 by xtina

dr xtina in the house so to speak i got lots of little words for you and me got my cup of joe my instant news and lots of normal people to compare myself to tapping on the keys in … Continue reading →

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time is awasting

Posted on April 11, 2002 by xtina

Oho, my goodness so much to write. I think I can aptly sum up the last eight months in a little haiku… … time is awasting now you must fight to hope, to grow plans once made now go … … Continue reading →

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