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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!

398 A dream of a family Feb.2011

Everybody has a family exactly like mine. You know it. Where Grandma Rose and Grand Aunt Gen would love to get at each others throats, but, age crippled from toes to noses and so senile they wouldn’t remember what to … Continue reading

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397 No xeroxed gods Feb. 2011

We each need our own God. Xeroxed epiphanies create talibans and nazis. Why would Divinity need reproductions? Billions of stars create the bright night sky. I will worship my personal crystal of fire. In life times, I will have just … Continue reading

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396 Moonlight on snow Feb. 20, 2011

Dark tree shadow on moon glow snow, a midnights full moon is but a ricochet of the suns light from the other side of earth, like a buddha or a christ, blurred mirror epiphany of progressive divinity, worshiped, revered, beloved, … Continue reading

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395 Instructions to the gardener Dec,16,2010

” Really, Haysus, it is no use to sow seed in the soil near the trellis where Cousin Alice pruned her roses. The dirt there is somehow, tainted. Growing anything there is, unlikely. You might even uncover, among the stones, … Continue reading

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394 How white elephants find books Feb. 2011

The lovely lady librarian leads me down the stairs past rows of computers, down past furious students,late paper typing, down past piles of compu-techno junk closets down to rows of steel stacks and resting on these stacks, books, like kings … Continue reading

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393 Apologia – or, “it’s not this simple, but I keep trying”

My Mother and Father were lovers nailed to a cross and a star, capable of reaching but never touching, he in vivid anger at what he saw as orthodox Jewish hypocrisy , she, the rejected daughter of Irish Catholics and … Continue reading

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392 Old man crying Jan.2011

Tears come easier now than when I was a boy, than when I was a young man, than when I was “middle aged”. But the tears are not from sorrow born, rather of joy, for those moments when I can … Continue reading

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391 Quick notes to self Jan.2011

make appointments: knee doc. foot doc. skin doc. heart doc. lawyer. pay pound of flesh.

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390 Remind me 1-12-11

I remind me of you so I will not forget you too. You remind me of me smiling about who we used to be. I remind me of us to remember who we were. Will you remind you of me … Continue reading

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389 Warrior souls know 12-22-10

Wars are organized migrations. Water buffalo fording alligatored rivers, elephants thirsty, searching march to water, geese waiting for rising winds to summit Everest. Warriors do not die by random fired bullets killing them by surprise. Their ready souls move to … Continue reading

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