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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!

197 It won’t hurt her.

It doesn’t pay to be to smart if you’re a chicken. For what you’d learn would break your heart, if you’re a chicken. That painful push to lay that egg to have it fried for breakfast. The gentle brooding of … Continue reading

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196 Farmers wife

It’s a good thing she’s got work to do. The work she does is her hearts glue. When she feels her heart about to break, all she does is start to rake. When she knows It’s going to shatter, just … Continue reading

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195 A dream to worry about

I had a shark dream last night. My Father, as he was back when I was the child in the dream was at the helm of the craft, more a pontoon raft with our outboard astern,loaded with relatives and many, … Continue reading

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194 The farm is gone

The barn is quiet, though seldom silent. Sibilant breezes whisper greetings to each stall, loft, remenant hay stalk, just now, a flutter of wings, some wandering pigeon seeking roost. But, no mare, no jersy, no clucking chicken hears or cares … Continue reading

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193 Finding Father

At forty I found my Father. At forty I found my Father had for years been looking for a me he could only hope was more than he could see. I had given him only traces, hints of my existance … Continue reading

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192 All He Could Do

When all he could do was wiggle, he,d wiggle, wiggle, and wiggle. Then he giddled, so he added giggle to wiggle and did both. Then, when he could, he would run, shout, play. giggle and wiggle. And play play play … Continue reading

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191 Simple noisy interruptions

Someone is mowing his lawn. I am sitting here trying to be, but someone is mowing his lawn. The mechanical mumbling, the high pitched whine, the mowers drone, the eterenal interruption of solitude by cacophony continues, but , I am … Continue reading

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190 During an assignment.

“Writing poetry is tough!” he said, as he sat on the grass of the emerald outfield under a turquoise sky with a cool, early spring breeze carassesing him. His Mother offering him lines and lines of gifts if he would … Continue reading

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189 A student said,”

Fuck you!” He said it to me! Me! of all people, Me! and what I am and what I represent; To him: adult authority, unsolicited rules, unrepresented controls. To me: the person to give him a beter life than he … Continue reading

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188 My students

Are thinking: environment; save the world; up the machine; road tests… all the time. Are feeling: Oh Yes! Such fellings!: Sex? Now? Not now?; Touchdown!; Ask her?; Ask him?; Zits!! Oh God not Zits!!; all the time. Are hopeing: Yesterdays … Continue reading

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