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Monocle
by alpal
Released 2013-06-01 10:00:14 -0700
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Mistaking the brier for barbed wire,


She thought herself enslaved,


And never dared to climb any higher,


And never escaped from her cage.

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by alpal
2013-03-06 18:44:45 -0800
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(rewrote this tale to be a little shorter and more manageable.)


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My little sister Carly had an imaginary friend named Noah.


I had an imaginary friend too. Un...

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by alpal
2013-03-06 17:30:39 -0800
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uws, nyc, 2012

by alpal
2013-02-18 17:44:51 -0800
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pittsburgh, 2012

by alpal
2013-02-18 17:41:46 -0800
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As an actor, I find that the best direction is the indirect. To get this shot, I told a 6'3'' man to make himself small. I told him that he was alone, and that his only source of comfort in all the world is his right shoulder. I spoke to him in a soft, low voice.


I never told him to "be sad."

by alpal
2013-02-15 17:04:51 -0800
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three readings of the public domain Robert Frost poem

by alpal
2013-01-21 14:37:29 -0800
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delete

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by alpal
2013-01-21 14:36:25 -0800
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I love it when it's been snowing, and you wake up


at three in the morning for no reason at all,


just your body wakes itself up


as if there is nothing else it ...

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by alpal
2013-01-21 11:31:02 -0800
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model: Gwen Sisco

by alpal
2013-01-14 13:55:16 -0800
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I punched a guy. I originally wrote "man" but felt that "guy" had more soul, sounded more street. Because punching a guy in the face is a pretty street thing to do. (It was in the face, where I ...

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by alpal
2013-01-13 19:25:10 -0800
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by alpal
2013-01-13 14:26:12 -0800
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What if you'd seen


me, stopped your eyes


on mine and thought


deep thoughts about


me, and you wondered


what i'm like, and


i...

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by alpal
2013-01-13 11:07:06 -0800
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