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first day of January
two thousand and twenty three.

While the wife then in the process...

I LOVE TO COOK, ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING, I LEARNED HOW TO
COOK IN HOME ECONOMICS CLASS WHEN I WAS A...

For those of you that might be vaguely interested, my seventh anthology was published yesterday 1st...

I am leaving
because ..
I shall let you
decide ..
But my time
here...

The sun will rise the birds will sing
As a new year comes the skies
Are blue and peaceful and...

FOR GOD HE IS THE REAL, DEAL, NO SUBSTITUTE, FOR HIS GRACE AND
MERCY, JESUS PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE...

I AM EXCITED, LOTS TO DO, LOTS OF THINGS TO SAY,
WE HAVE STARTED A NEW YEAR, IT'S A BRAND-NEW DAY...

Why did you come back?
After all this time
Why reach out?
Why tell me things I'd come...

I didn't ask for this
I didn't ask for the hands that weren't mine to touch my body
I didn't...

TODAY I AM AN EARLY BIRD, RISE AND SHINE DO A FEW
DISHES, MAKE THE BED, COFFEE PERKING, UP AND OUT...

Kind of Love

It’s the kind of love that’s not EVER going to stray. The kind that comes right back...

WITH MY LAST BREATH,
I’II CURSE YOUR NAME,
AS I RECALL THE PAIN
I ‘VE SUSTAINED...

and heat flowing with a snap

After shaving and showering,
yours truly feels winsome
...

Light a candle for a new year
Candlelight flames burning with dreams, love, joy, happiness, health...

Last night we said goodbye to 2022.
Out with the old and in with the new.
The new year is...

it will be then as
if we never parted
as if never existed
streets, cities, countries...

it was through the hour that stoked the dawn
to push the sun out of its mourn
and force the...