nostalgia – Laurie MacFayden

Poetry

canada (palindrome)

Posted on 3 April 201324 November 2017by LaurieMacFayden

it was so different in the ’70s it was plaid bellbottoms and sideburns it was draft dodging and october crisis it was fresh science and a whole nation beating the soviets in hockey we were so much more than prisons and fighter jets we were clean and polite and happily multicultural we sewed maple leafs […]

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barrie me not

Posted on 19 February 200824 November 2017by Laurie MacFayden

“how can a free spirit ever possibly take flight living in a place called BARRIE?” i scream this at my mother who cannot seem to understand why i am packing up my ’75 datsun b210 rustbucket and driving 2,000 miles away to take a job in alberta. my mother isn’t getting it, but my 22-year-old […]

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