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Choose Your Color

Posted on March 1, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

I would rather be a window than a wall. You could see through me then and it would matter to both of us in different ways. Before I was born I had not been meant to be. Do you think … Continue reading →

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Magnetic Devil

Posted on February 27, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

He was a marionette whose strings were rods ascending. It was not what you would think. He jerked in such a charming way, his limbs were paper cutouts, colored for your pleasure – for your pleasure – until… He made … Continue reading →

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Robert Reich explains the War on the Poor and Middle Class in America

Posted on February 8, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

http://front.moveon.org/war_on_the_poor_reich/#.UvV39bTOWSo It’s amazing how succinctly this man makes his point, in only a little over 2 minutes.

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the sun over your shoulder

Posted on February 4, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

Your soul is worth more than your anger and your pain. What heart is this that beats with rage enough to harm, to kill? One gaze into a still pool reveals the sun over your shoulder and transient clouds in … Continue reading →

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saxophone

Posted on February 1, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

why couldn’t I have put my legs together and just played it like they wanted me to? saxophone, with its brassy presence and the reed that nestled against my bottom lip, so strange, so natural but it was not meant … Continue reading →

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a heart you know

Posted on February 1, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

Do you see them? They deliver your mail, they give you your morning cup of java, they hand you your change. I know you won’t see their paparazzi pics in the glossies or those sleazy websites that feed the hungry, … Continue reading →

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honor you, honor me

Posted on January 29, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

I know you know how it feels to have him crush you into the pavement with his words and his anger, only to scrape you like something he stepped in, scrape you off the bottom of his boot. Your innate … Continue reading →

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of pennywhistles and footfalls

Posted on January 26, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

There is dust on the needles of the Jack Pines and the high noon sun glints off little mirrors of Mica adorning the rocks like bling. Cactus dare to bloom here though the snow may come again, and hawks soar … Continue reading →

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You Understand?

Posted on January 25, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

Stormy, they always say I’m stormy. When the clouds mount in their slate colored suits and blot out the Sun I know the Moon will chase me and I giggle like a mischievous child. I am alive. I will live, … Continue reading →

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Cooks County

Posted on January 21, 2014 by theminstrelscitadel

Cooks County Jail is a warehouse. They inventory degrees of madness, of loneliness and abandonment. Here they shelter people who think they are Jesus, women who pull out their hair men whose only crime is having concrete for a bed. … Continue reading →

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