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(((ray)))

It is better to be lost among friends than found among enemies.

About Me



Just as a pebble
That sinks in a pond,
I leave a few ripples
And then I am gone.

married for 27 years, 2 beautiful daughters [25 and 23]. generally quiet and keep away from the center of attention.
i write poetry and have just published my first book . if you find that we have anything in common and want to talk about it, please send me a message.


Important to me: God, my wife, my kids, a few very close friends.

And as the crowd goes so I go,
Not due enough to my own mind,
But drawn by instinct's ebb and flow
To seek the comfort of the kind.


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My Interests

music, coffee, art, coffee, poetry, coffee, wasting time.

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for audio of my poetry

I'd like to meet:

poets, writers, artists. anyone with an easy going attitude and the maturity to be able to discuss differing opinions and ideas.

If never the Moment strikes, If all remains silent and still, If complacency darkens the light, 'Tis then that the Moment will kill.

Untitled Ships at Sea, Anton Otto Fischer

Ships at Sea, Edward Moran

Entering the port of Marseilles, Frank M. Boggs

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Music:



a place called home
pj harvey

little plastic castle
ani difranco

i didn't mean to turn you on
robert palmer

the beatles; the cranberries; radiohead [they feed the angst]; coldplay; corinne bailey rae; pj harvey; the be good tanyas; pretenders; ani difranco; belle & sebastion; everything but the girl; frank sinatra; dean martin; just about anything classical; rock; alternative; some blues; bluegrass; a little jazz; and [tho i hate to admit it] country too. i guess what i'm trying to say is that i'll listen to just about anything depending on my mood. but the beatles are the definite favorite [i guess that makes me a product of my generation. how cliche].

Movies:

all kinds, old, new. any genre. no point in being too narrow or boxed in.

Television:

lost

Books:

all over the map on this one, depends on my mood [and how much caffeine is in me]. i could happily spend all day in a bookstore or library.

check out the ogre poet's new book
(for the romantics out there)

Heroes:

anyone who honestly seeks the truth with an open mind.

My Blog

Homewood-Brushton 1968

Homewood-Brushton 1968In the Spring of 1968we rode the school busfrom suburb to citypast soldiers posted on every corner.We stood in our playground,fingers laced in the chain-link,watching the glares ...
Posted by (((ray))) on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:10:00 PST

thru

  thru i killed myself.couple o' weeks ago.i think it was a tuesday.shot myself thru the heart.or was it the soul?anyway,it didn't end all at once.took a while for my conscience to bleed out. &nb...
Posted by (((ray))) on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:01:00 PST

out-take

  out-take we both always order the sweet & sour chicken.you, because it's what you like.i, because i hate making decisions.and that's what makes our marriage work.    ...
Posted by (((ray))) on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:50:00 PST

out of step with friends

  out of step with friends everywhere i stepanother trap door creaksbeneath my feet.what's that in your hand?a lever?    ...
Posted by (((ray))) on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:29:00 PST

UFO

  UFO i saw a UFOwhen i was 4 years oldat least i think i didbut everybody saidi was a dreameror a schemeror a mixedup little boybut i think i knowwhat i thought i sawjust not so sure if it ...
Posted by (((ray))) on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:14:00 PST

memo to self

  memo to self memo to self:i (you) hereby desire to execute my (your) option to withdrawfrom the corporate entityknown as "you" ("me"),relative to your (my) lengthy historyof behaviors which i (...
Posted by (((ray))) on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:38:00 PST

island

  island white surroundinglike an ocean.this my islandland of nothing. just words floatingflotsam jetsam.without bottlesfor protection. still i'm tryingto make contact.still i'm hopingfor a rescu...
Posted by (((ray))) on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:23:00 PST

it all

  it all once,in a whileit all makes sense.and when youtry, explaining it slipsaway.    
Posted by (((ray))) on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:12:00 PST

lotus flower

  lotus flower at the delta of your Nileyou Egypt me with wicked smile,leaving me in dry estate  sand and Sphinx to contemplate.   this is an edited and newly titled gibberish piece that i ...
Posted by (((ray))) on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:20:00 PST

lament

  i took the circle of lifeand stretched it into a line,with a little slack, between two trees,thinking to use it as a hammock. but no matter how i tossed and turnedi just couldn’t get comf...
Posted by (((ray))) on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:16:00 PST