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    My Life is a Library: A Collection of Poetry
    My Life is a Library: A Collection of Poetry
    My Life is a Library: A Collection of Poetry
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    My Life is a Library: A Collection of Poetry

    By Connie Boje

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    My Life is a Library contains: My Life is a Library, My Life is a Library II, Antiquated, Apple, Bag of Tricks, Bakery Art Show, Balancing Act, Blanket, Blind, Bobby Pin, Breakfast, Cant, Cat Controlled, Common to the Core, Diction, Embarrassment Issues, Escape, Etiquette, Folded, Gravel, Grumpy, Heat, Helo, Hereness, Hidden Meaning, House of Sleep, I am Grateful For (I Thank God), I am Grateful For, In Forever, In the Mend, Iowa, Land Over Iowa, Isolation, Kick of Man, Lacking Sweetness, Library, Library Books, Lights Out, Lincoln, Menopause, Mock Iceberg Recedes, MS, Nebraska is not Omaha, On Word, Ostracize, Poetry Is, Raffle, Rescue, Research, Rock Walk, Rosetta Stone, Soap Story, Solid, Solid II, Speech, Spell-Checker II, Stay in My Day, The Smell of Words, This, To Write a Novel, Train A Matter of Some Pride, Tweak, Verbally Claustrophobic, What Poetry Is Not, Women, Words are not Bits, Work, Writer of Pamphlets, Writing for Your Life, and Writing Is.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherConnie Boje
    Release dateMay 14, 2015
    ISBN9781310002571
    My Life is a Library: A Collection of Poetry
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    Connie Boje

    I write poetry zines and ebooks and am currently working on updating them all into Smashwords. If you are not familiar with a ZINE it is a book produced from a photo copier or a printer. I have just come back from my first zinefest in NYC held at Barnard College. I also write fiction and my first book is called SLANTBOARD which takes place in the future where people can ride on boards that float a little off the ground nor do they go much over 10 miles and hour so they have a similar culture to long-distance bike riding. Thanks for reading!

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      My Life is a Library - Connie Boje

      MY LIFE IS A LIBRARY:

      A COLLECTION OF POETRY

      Copyright 2015 BY Connie Boje

      SMASHWORDS Edition

      TABLE OF CONTENTS :

      MY LIFE IS A LIBRARY

      MY LIFE IS A LIBRARY II

      ANTIQUATED

      APPLE

      BAG OF TRICKS

      BAKERY ART SHOW

      BALANCING ACT

      BLANKET

      BLIND

      BOBBY PIN

      BREAKFAST

      CANT

      CAT CONTROLLED

      COMMON TO THE CORE

      DICTION (DICTIONARY, DICTIONARY)

      EMBARRASSMENT ISSUES

      ESCAPE

      ETIQUETTE

      FOLDED

      GRAVEL

      GRUMPY

      HEAT

      HELO

      HERENESS

      HIDDEN MEANING

      HOUSE OF SLEEP

      I AM GRATEFUL FOR (I THANK GOD FOR)

      I AM GRATEFUL FOR

      IN FOREVER

      IN THE MEND

      IOWA

      LAND OVER IOWA

      ISOLATION

      KICK OF MAN

      LACKING SWEETNESS

      LIBRARY

      LIBRARY BOOKS

      LIGHTS OUT

      LINCOLN

      MENOPAUSE

      MOCK ICEBERG RECEDES

      MS

      NEBRASKA IS NOT OMAHA

      ON WORD

      OSTRACIZE

      POETRY IS

      RAFFLE

      RESCUE

      RESEARCH

      ROCK WALK

      ROSSETA STONE

      SOAP STORY

      SOLID

      SOLID II

      SPEECH

      SPELL-CHECKER II

      STAY IN MY DAY

      THE SMELL OF WORDS

      THIS

      TO WRITE A NOVEL

      TRAIN A MATTER OF SOME PRIDE

      TWEAK

      VERBALLY CLAUSTROPHOBIC

      WHAT POETRY IS NOT

      WOMEN

      WORDS ARE NOT BITS

      WORK

      WRITER OF PAMPLETS

      WRITING FOR YOUR LIFE

      WRITING IS

      M Y L I F E IS A L I B R A R Y

      my earliest memory of where I went to

      school before I actually went there was of

      hearing of a ghost at the library (this was

      out of a book) who would be seen haunting

      the stacks and pulling a book out of the shelf

      putting it back I saw a student haunting the

      library looking for the one lost book they

      claimed they returned but which there

      was no record it did not get checked in

      and they could not graduate until they

      could locate it and now I realize this

      person must have been that ghost

      either that or they both had the

      same problem I also had a friend

      whose fine with this library was

      so big that now the topic she

      was researching was how to

      get the fine waived and she

      D I D

      M Y LI F E IS A L I B R A R Y

      I also remember being warned

      about a male who had a foot

      fetish and he would stare at

      WOMEN'S feet and touch them

      while in the stacks studying

      I turned around and there

      was a man standing on the

      desk studying me study

      looking down from a high

      wall of the desk so of

      course I left and never

      studied in the stacks

      A G A I N

      M Y LI F E IS A L I B R A R Y

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