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Name or Pseudonym:: clay

About Me:: Poet
laidback and calm
writing meaningful words
flowing from zen into my pen
to share

Blog:: www.claytonlowe.com

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clay lowe added 5 new blog posts. View clay lowe's blog posts Nov 15 2007

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janine

Janine, my dream, I drink you up
like a Kasteel Cru on a lonely night

Like the night we first met
I was passing through without a lot to do.
You were behind the desk on the headset
While Benny Goodman played Roll ‘em on the clarinet
I was dreaming of nothing until I walked into you

Janine, my dream, I drink you up
like a Kasteel Cru on a lonely night

I couldn’t escape your soft brown eyes
They held me in place trans

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Posted by clay lowe on November 27th, 2007 at 12:39pm — No Comments (Add)

dingy cafes

And so I find myself sitting in a dingy café that lured me in with the offer of free Internet access. Only the access is not really free. You have to buy their coffee, of course. But also the only ‘free’ Internet access is their website! I could have just as well stayed in my hotel room had I known such was the case. And to top it all off, it’s been 20 minutes and I still don’t have my cup of coffee yet.

It’s a Monday evening. I’ve been up since 4 am. I flew up to

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Posted by clay lowe on November 26th, 2007 at 1:26pm — No Comments (Add)

happy thanksgiving

No turkey for me today. Being an expat, I haven’t celebrated Thanksgiving in 6 years and it was only reading a post from Raw Dawg that reminded that today is Thanksgiving. I am about as far away from the Thanksgiving tradition as I can get. I’m away from home, alone, in Scotland having a Chinese buffet for dinner. I don’t often take the time to reflect on just how far remove from America I am. I no longer have a feel for what is going on in America at the street level and the only news I get i…

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Posted by clay lowe on November 22nd, 2007 at 2:30pm — No Comments (Add)

labels

Labels. Labels. Labels.

We have this innate need to label things. I realise labelling is a part of our survival mechanism. Back in the day running around in the jungle, we needed to label things, good, bad, dangerous, poisonous, friend or foe.

And the labels were signals to the brain to act accordingly in relationship to the label.

So if I stumbled upon another human in the jungle, I might la…

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Posted by clay lowe on November 18th, 2007 at 1:25pm — No Comments (Add)

american sentences No. 2

Illusion breeds delusion a trance state induced to enslave the free.

Posted by clay lowe on November 15th, 2007 at 3:11pm — 2 Comments (Add)

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At 10:21am on October 25th, 2007, clay lowe said…: Hi Ceridwen. Thanks. I've known you from afar afar through Lydia's (secretagentartist) blog. I dig your ideas and look forward to sharing time with you.

At 9:51am on October 25th, 2007, Ceridwen said…: Clay, nice blog. I like your style and your junk mail poem is good stuff. Thanks for joining read. write. poem. I look forward to getting to know your blog and your writing more in November.