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losers winners la la la
they was raised super competitive
like – kill kill kill!
the rare times they won a contest they
didn’t really know how to feel
deep down they wondered
why cannot we all be cherished?
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the ones who ought
they was obsessed and careless
and reckless. then it was over
they put a decided stop they
found a heart for living right
the long heavy shadows
blended. telling stories
in quick short bursts loving the ones
who ought
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the earth does all the heavy lifting while the sun just shines
the sun crossed the sky
everyone was amazed
reminded her of her ex
didn’t do a damn thing
and got all the credit
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Hudson Bay.1922
man against polar bear
man against walrus
against dog against dog
man against winter
man against time
against hunger
no need to be
against self
#katyamills
old model ford
we pushed past cobwebs
got her tires up. compressor plugged into the cig lighter
her battery would take some time to charge
so we all sat around together waiting on this old model ford
the old man pronounced the virtues of a burro over a horse
when traversing mountainous country
how to get pure drinking water by digging a hole beside a river
how the best place to hide
when running from somebody
is the cemetery
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6.18
we got lucky sevens in the valley
sodas with paper straws we
took our summer with everything on it
the cars no longer sound like cars
the lakes are low the rivers
high and we. for once we are
happy #katyamills
buttercups
contractors pull up in trucks
on a summer morning
one holds the door for me
at the café
i remember a boy inside a shirt
a field of Ranunculus
holds one to my chin and declares
you like butter
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sensation
it was 1991. Nirvana and Alice had just released records
i was reading and drinking and writing and smoking
watching the winds pick up speed
some bastard stole my bike so i
got around on foot
#katyamills
book review
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I did not love it. I liked it. I was able to conquer my attention span and read 1,000 pages. That was more enlightening than the book itself. Tolstoy of course – a master. You see him in Levin. You find the most honorable writing in tribute to the Russian peasants. They are like the true heroic figures of this novel. All the society crap Anna was destroyed by. So sad. So predictable and timeless. All countries’ societies are the same. How people treat people. Drive some to suicide. Vronsky was very typical in many ways. A typical man with ambition and a sex drive. I hate how he left his horse to die and didn’t seem to care. In a way he treated Anna the same. But not on purpose. Unconsciously. The peasants with their scythes clearing the million acres of fields. Laughing. Not caring. Working. Living. Beautiful the way Tolstoy describes them. Levin aspires to live with them before he gets married. Maybe even after. Anna’s son and the scene where she returns to see him one final time – this scene is truly magnificent. Tolstoy’s gem. The best thing I got from this book was humbled (as a writer). Also delighted. By the tour of Moscow, St Petersburg, and the descriptions of hunting and farming in the Russian countryside.
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fact 1
fact 1
you don’t have to smoke
the tires off your cars
to be happy. fact. but some do
and some are
#katyamills
K IS SILENT 