Author: Steven Harz
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Misplaced heart The morning news showed a story about a baby born with her heart on the outside and as we watched together you in your new world and me in our old one I touched the screen as it beat outside of her body and learned that doctors had to build a hole in…
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Tin Boy The simultaneous gloss and tack of the Ladies’ Home Journal ran beneath his first two fingers until they came to a stop on an address label showing that it was a mid-1970s October in Connecticut. Since it was autumn and New England, the memories are tinted orange, and in this case it’s appropriate…
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Another great spoken word piece by the great Shane Koyczan. Beautifully read and illustrated. In my opinion, he should be required reading/listening in all schools. **If you liked this, check out Shane’s TED talk: https://stevenharz.com/2014/05/12/shane-koyczan-at-tedxyouthsandiego-2013/
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It was music that had first attracted them to each other. When with his friends, the barrage of “Back in Black” and “Running with the Devil” was non-stop. In the quieter moments, alone in his room with the headset tethering him to the avocado green stereo by a twisted twelve foot cord, or cruising in…
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The stop signs (two) and traffic lights (too many to count) between his house and hers were (considered by him to be) impediments to the far too few minutes and hours that they spent together each day (or week or month) but the same red lights and signs on his way home were like magnets…
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Joanna Rakoff on reading Salinger’s fan mail – this is a great article! http://www.salon.com/2014/06/30/i_was_just_amazed_joanna_rakoff_on_reading_salingers_fan_mail/
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Review: Poems that Make Grown Men Cry
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I studied you tonight as if I were reading and re-reading the Bible in Braille but when I came to the passages reviling fornication I became a momentary atheist — “Momentary Atheist” is included in my book “Songs You Can’t Dance To” which is available at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Songs-You-Cant-Dance-Collection-ebook/dp/B00ATQW5XK copyright 2012 Steven Harz
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‘Sara Smile’ performed by Daryl Hall and Rumer on ‘Live from Daryl’s House’ I love this song I love this performance I love the way she looks at him…..
Steven Harz / Americana Soul 