Category Archives: poetry

If the bus were cool.

By spider | Published: January 12, 2009

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 were cool, less gas would be wasted If the bus were cool, admit it, YOU’d [...]

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less is more

By spider | Published: April 8, 2007

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 of life. Material possessions, habits, toxins, emotions – all can become weights that hold us [...]

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I love this!

By xtina | Published: April 8, 2007

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 WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …. something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her [...]

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why we do it

By xtina | Published: December 12, 2006

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 you have to be sure don’t write.’ – W. S. Merwin

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An Ode to Black Tea (& Love)

By xtina | Published: November 15, 2006

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 cup of his special brew And hands it to me, It’s like he has handed [...]

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On the sad state of the Oakland Raiders

By spider | Published: September 12, 2006

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 nothing. 7:19 Tracy: Do you think the men in black will be victorious? 7:24 Me: [...]

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an ode to eggs

By xtina | Published: May 3, 2006

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 wash it in hot, soapy water then enjoy it cooked, boiled, baked broke or whole [...]

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V for Vendetta

By spider | Published: March 19, 2006

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 vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice [...]

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boom chicka chicka

By xtina | Published: April 18, 2002

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 such a lively manner i feel like dj red not mc spammmer (chicka boom boom [...]

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time is awasting

By xtina | Published: April 11, 2002

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 … uh, actually it;s not that great, but hey, it the thought that counts. so here’s [...]

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