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Open Questions for a Heart Which can’t Be…

Whenever I See You…

Walk away…

Through My Eyes…

There is a [certain] cruelty to love…

You deserve…

What mask do you wear?

Damn it.

The Great Destroyer —

I Will Find You In…

The Best Day of the Year

The Lingering Sting

The Voice Below is the Voice Within…

Slip Under the Surface

Labels

As Leaves In Winter…

On Crushes…

Los Corridos de Lamentos

Underdog…

A Barricade to Love…

Empty Boats (Redux)

Joining the Foreign Legion…

Response to “Reshaping Life After Loss”

Forgive Yourself, Pal…

Release…

The Cliffs of Hanama Bay…

Ogre…

Rejuvenated…

You…

Making love old school…

The moment…

Things a young(ish) widower of two years knows…

Vince Fulco (It / It's)

Lon Shapiro

Mar 13, 2016·3 min read

Open Questions for a Heart Which can’t Be…

This is a fictional interview which surfaced after a past chance encounter with a crush for one time too many.

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Whenever I See You…

-this ordinary world melts away in an instant

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Walk away…

“Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for…

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Through My Eyes…

“…I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being…” ~Hafiz of…

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There is a [certain] cruelty to love…

“…if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

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You deserve…

“Light and easily broken ties are what I neither desire theoretically nor could live for practically.” — The novelist…

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What mask do you wear?

“The suffering that we create in life is always the tendency to divide and separate…” ~~Ajahn Sumedho

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Damn it.

Why did I just do that?

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The Great Destroyer —

What??? Twenty minutes into the procedure and I am called in to the diagnostic area. G-d damn it, this was supposed to…

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I Will Find You In…

** Coming up on the two year anniverary of my wife’s passing, I am reflecting on so many writings I have enjoyed…

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The Best Day of the Year

Author’s Note: This was a contest submission and winner a few years ago with the theme of why Thanksgiving Day is a…

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The Lingering Sting

Oh needle, bite into my flesh, I have felt it before, maybe not as repetitively, but life’s sting feels the same.

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The Voice Below is the Voice Within…

It is 2 a.m. and I am awakened by a voice in the courtyard many floors below. Someone is singing loudly enough to reach…

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Slip Under the Surface

“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones…

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Labels

A cascade of things we tell ourselves and/or overlay on others:

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As Leaves In Winter…

Don’t pull away my beloved,

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On Crushes…

“I lost someone who didn’t care for me, you lost someone who adored you.” — Anon.

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Los Corridos de Lamentos

No regrets,

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Underdog…

Sex isn’t a transaction,

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A Barricade to Love…

“I want to measure the extent of your love,

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Empty Boats (Redux)

“A World of Grief and Pain, Flowers Bloom, Even Then…”

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Joining the Foreign Legion…

“If you think it long and mad, the wind of banners that passes through my life, and you decide to leave me at the shore…

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Response to “Reshaping Life After Loss”

For some reason, none of my browsers will allow me to ‘respond’ to this excellent piece directly. So here it is:

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Forgive Yourself, Pal…

A conversation between a wife and a husband…

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Release…

Don’t make me go back to that world. You know the one. Of small talk, idle gossip (or idol worship as the case may be…

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The Cliffs of Hanama Bay…

This is my response to Jonathan Caroll’s challenge for a 150 word piece on one of your best days.