Author: Steve
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No Road
by Steven Cuffari An old poetry teacher of mine once said Fill every line of verse with pendant dread The thickness of the text should stick like dry sand In throats just moist, thirsting, reaching a hand. What she really said was I’m a terrible poet, bland She had a way of talking in a…
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October. Feeling
by Steven Cuffari Here starts the fallBut it came a couple weeks agoBut that’s the way it feels.It’s an October feelingOut with the oldRaking and sweepingDusting he ghosts in our machinesAnd outside our selvesOur bodies are our soulsIt’s the beginning of the end and that makes us all feel cozy. If we don’t make it…
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Broken Clocks
by Steven Cuffari Broken clockshave their saytwice a dayWhat a shamespinning handsfroze in stategears are jammedin their placeBroken mindsBroken heartsHow manymissing ticksmissing tocksCan we sufferBefore we clocksare brokeasunder?
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Beat the Devil
by Steven Cuffari Inspired by Sammy Why’d he do it? That’s always the question. To answer it would ruin the story. Any good story follows a path littered with bodies. And like any good story, this one is ruined by its most interesting character. This one had tattooed a QR code on the left cheek…
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November 2017
by Steven Cuffari 1 This is not a journal, although it was intended to be. I received it almost a year ago. Please forgive me for the somewhat meandering nature of what I am about to write. I do not know my audience, and I do not know if you are it. I do not…
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Something’s Looming
The author looms above his pageand thinks it’s strange that at his agehe cannot find the proper wordsto describe his only worldOne would think that in a lifewhere no two snowflakes are alikeone would have a brilliant rhymefor each and every bit of time From “The Yeti” on the album The Elephant Riders by Clutch…
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Caught on Tape
Podcasting. How did I get here? 24 episodes and six months later, and I feel like I will do this for the rest of my life. It doesn’t matter whether or not you know what I am talking about. Or if you’ve ever listened to my podcast. That’s not why I do it. But I’ll…
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In Vino Veritas
“If you know anything about that gorgeous southern clime, then you know they are known for their wine.” –Me, referring to Argentina In vino veritas. In wine, there is truth. But I’ll get to that in a moment. I’m a drinker. Always have been. Always will be. Sometimes I am selective, sometimes not. For example,…