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About Ken Greenman

Married and Happy. Retired and busy. Living in NC. 71 and counting. December 12, 2025 and it's 77! ... I would love some written comments, critiques, adulation or kind suggestions.... If you have the time and or inclination, please feel free! Not in fear but by faith. We will see. See you later! If you ever want to talk for real, email me and I will send you my cell number.... I am enjoying this!

270 Knowing Hell III

Fire would be a fine relief And God a loving fellow to release the damned from the tick-tock-tick of knowing, knowing, knowing, knowing, knowing, knowing,

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269 Knowing Hell II

or, when youive been fucking around on him, or you’ve been really enjoying fucking around on her, while the worry, fear, thoughts of consequence, lie buried deep, deep… but suddenly, in a quick seconds shock, “Fuck!”, you think, “He knows!” … Continue reading →

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268 Knowing Hell

Hell for Elmo, our getting older cat, is the sad knowing that when she jumps the impossibly long gap from ground to raised back porch, she misses by an inch, claws rasp on cedar boards as she slides, slides to … Continue reading →

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267 Mrs. Lots cooking secret.

Life needs spice, but these angels know just bland. It is not Lots fault, but, I’d sooner salt.

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266 Lots wife to the Angels

I will not follow where you lead. I’ve seen your pale,dark faces. I will not kneel to your frozen god, nor pray in his icy places. For Sodoms fires my skin still cries. Gemmorahs passions pull me. To escape the … Continue reading →

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265 How to muse

Don’t abuse the muse, amuse the muse with glimmers she has wrought. Use the muse. So you won’t lose the muse (at least that’s what I’ve been taught.)

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264 Tempest:Act 6 (Prospero repents/Ariel forgives

PROSPERO: “I wish to touch the heat again, to feel the flame, the power, to sense on skin the joy of sin to watch the passions flower.” ARIEL: “Come, old lover,take my hand. I’ll lead you thru’ infernos. (aside) (It’s … Continue reading →

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263 Waiting lines

Life is spaced by coffins draped in cotton, lace and silk. The graves we daily excavate, with mass productions fill. Now, I don’t believe in easy Grace (some bastards are far from God). But in those unnumbered earthy holes, quay … Continue reading →

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262 Rushing the season

This is April first. Still there is Winters chill. Tall, leafless trunks lean expectantly, southerly, pulled by the suns weighty creep. They long for the warmth, yet still is the cold touch. Oh! They know leafy May blooms soon, but … Continue reading →

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261 Pay attention

Listen for the sense in the noise. Spring, like the birthing room, is chaos and cacophony, as Winter,like the grave, is silence. So now, comes Summer. I’m dozing in my swing squinting my ear for theme amidst all of Natures … Continue reading →

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