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Keep It Simple, Stupid.

This is the simplest sandwich I can fathom — one thick slice of cooked ham and one slice of Muenster cheese on white bread.  (Make sure the opposite slice of bread includes a generous helping of Duke’s Mayonnaise.)

The taste is positively sublime.  The meat and the cheese just go together like chocolate and peanut butter, I swear.

Anyway, at some point I want to see how I can become a spokesperson for Duke’s Mayonnaise, because that’s totally a cause that I can get behind.  I have no idea how — I’m not exactly an “influencer.”  I guess I’ve influenced people on Facebook to unfriend me?  And I had a guy tell me once that my poetry made him want to hug his knees and cry.  (“But it’s so good!” He qualified.)  I still kinda don’t think that’s the reaction that Duke’s is going for.



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A Poet’s Short Note to His Muse:

My voice, my words, with you, O love,
are storms on every day of every season,
and without
are an urchin’s fleeting whisper in the dark.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2023



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(Add twang according to your preference.)

Single-spacing between sentences?
Try THAT in a small town.

The Oxford comma?
Try THAT in a small town.



Preorders available for the Gathering poetry anthology!

You can pre-order your copy of the Gathering poetry anthology, assembled by Poets Anonymous for release at its book launch on August 22nd in Fairfax, Virginia.  The anthology will include my poem, “Smiling Among Inert Shipwrecks.”

Details can be found here at the website for Local Gems Press, which is collaborating with Poets Anonymous to produce the book.



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“Nothing” appears in Down in the Dirt Volume #210.

The August 2023 issue of Down in Dirt Magazine just dropped (Volume #210), including my short poem, “Nothing.”  The theme of this issue is “At the Zoo.”

You can purchase a copy of Volume #210 right here at Amazon.

Or, you can read the entire issue online for free.  My piece can be found right here.

Thanks once again to Editor Janet Kuypers for permitting me to showcase my work in such an outstanding literary magazine!



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Goodbye, Alvey Hall.

A really nice alumna of mine supplied a few more pictures of the destruction of Alvey Hall, after I posted about it yesterday.  (Thanks again, Shelby!)

As I mentioned then, the Mary Washington College dorm was actually torn down in 2021.



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They leveled my old dorm at Mary Washington College.

No, it wasn’t due to the infamy of me having once lived there. I have not yet fully scandalized a building.

This article is from two years ago — but I just saw this today when an alum shared it.

WOW, the memories I have of that place.

Alvey Hall Demolition at University of Mary Washington



I did NOT see Dad coming.

I told the nice young woman who cut my hair that I went to school in Fredericksburg.  She said she thought I might have gone to high school with her dad.

For some reason, that made me feel SO old.

Update — people on Facebook have now informed me that the phrase “nice young woman” is employed only by old people.



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Sports injury at age 50.

IT WAS THOSE GOD DAMN LEG LIFTS.  FITNESS IS A LIE.

Fitness is a lie perpetrated upon us by the … Fitness-Industrial Complex.

I blame Republicans.



The Nolan Italiana.

Fried mild Italian sausage, melted mozzarella, and spaghetti sauce, served on toast.



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