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And When It’s All Over

Downtown Israel, just like downtown Palestine is dead and gone.  Liberty no longer holds up her light, And her sister America has proven once and for all, might does not make right. They dropped some bombs on old Tehran Toronto, Detroit, and Chicago all look the same; a melted down mess. There’s nothing left, no one to impress. No child to look up through this storm and  say “Hey! Look up…

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Second Story: Big and Large Men’s Apparel

Photo of the author in July 1977 two months and four days before these events transpired in a parallel Universe. Ugly It was an ugly start to an ugly day. The kind where, if the world won’t, we wish we could just go away. Max didn’t want to go to school. He’d been harassed every day since the term had begun and he just wasn’t wanting to, let alone willing, to be torn down again.    Even the…

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On Some Late Springtime Evenings (published, here today, for Mary, who called about my Tetanus booster, thanks!).

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SOME of YOU

There are those among you whose pursuit of peace dictates a decorum that never allows you to state an opinion much more  divisive than “chocolate or vanilla”. I also understand myself enough to know my opinions can have a bit of overflow, causing others discomfort, but what they see as their opinion and too often don’t consider is shared by others who don’t want to let me live a life worth living…

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IT’S FOUR AM

I love the nighttime and very early mornings And must scoff at those who would scare me with their ignorant warnings At those times there are so few who would hurt me or stop me from doing what I do. It’s peaceful in the lowered light when the moon shifts everything to dark hues of blue, In that solitude or with a like companion One can learn the ins-and-outs of the abandon That is…

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Father's Day

I was 33 before I spent any significant amount of time alone with my father. We had a pretty strained relationship when I was a kid, but he did teach me five things: how to tie my shoes, the notes on the piano (when teaching me to play “Heart and Soul”), how to smoke (to butch me up when I was twelve), and how to change the oil on a car… oh, wait… six things…he taught me that all the animosity,…

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EXIST

Whatever preamble I write this piece is most likely going to be misunderstood. It is not an expressed desire to commit suicide, nor is it an attempt to elicit pity or concern, nor is it a call to commiseration. It is a celebration of all of those who resist the negation of who, and what they are, and what they’ve done by those who have gotten the most from their existence. EXIST I don’t want to…

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There’s no Room for Dreamers in this Nightmare

It amazes me how almost all Conservatives speak of tyranny of the government as extant and something so threatening that they hoard armaments, …There’s no Room for Dreamers in this Nightmare

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TRY COMING OUT IN A SMALL TOWN (Pt.One)

Photo of the author in July 1977 . Coming out in 1977, at the age of 14 in the small town of Loveland, Ohio, I discovered small towns can be small minded and mean. I would, within three months of my already rough road being what I had been assured would be smoother once I applied a layer of honesty and truth, I would experience a break as my way became tougher than I ever imagined, when I was…

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TIMOTHY LEARY’S LAST TRIP

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TIMOTHY LEARY’S LAST TRIP

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SOULSTICE

The Winter Solstice marks the dividing line between light and darkest dark; love and loss; happiness and pain; life and death. It serves to remind us that all things come to an end, but also promises us that even in our eventual demise, something will arise to remember us; rearranging what was us into something new: different, yes, but carrying forever, the spark of what will always be you. On…

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The ARCTIC CIRCLE

Lighting the Way THE ARCTIC CIRCLE When you venture north of the Arctic Circle, Far into the deepest darkest night  of your Nativity, When lit with the warmest, brightest light, Oh!  What Angels you will see.                                   -Troy K. Lynch                                     Winter 2019/2020

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DEATH to TYRANTS

The God We Trust Is Duplicitous, There is no more powerful, tyrannical dictator threatening We (Us) the People of the United States and those throughout the world than Capital. It dictates that nothing be valued more highly than itself. It’s ideals were canonized as CAPITALISM, in a defense for the buying and selling of people because the Tyrant it deposed, King George III, was preparing to…

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In the Heat of the Moment

(My older and younger brothers August 1967.) Alicia is a woman I adore and only recently met, despite three years of both of us riding the 8:10am #16 TANK bus to work and both of us being writers. There is more than a modicum of irony surrounding our friendship: the most striking example being that we struggle with social anxiety, which provides an understanding that immediately allowed our souls…

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AIDS Survivor Syndrome (ASS)

SUNNY In the mornings I wake up and then go get my drugs. Served up on a street corner by a mass of sweet and deadly, dark and lovely thugs. I’m looking for someone to be there; I’m looking for meaning. I’m seeing things I want to see in the popcorn plastered ceiling. What is my life like? Well, how do you fucking do? No, I don’t want to take you home and sure as fuck don’t wanna screw. I…

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AUSTIN, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

(Playground, Loveland-Miami Elementary School. Photo Troy K. Lynch) Austin, We Have a Problem… Though we know the problem is big; grave; it’s not caused by our ideologies but indeed, their ideologies play a huge role in the manifestation of the problem. So, what is the problem? That’s what you think it is? Oh! Yeah, I can understand why you of all people might see it as that, but no, that’s…