Second story gang

The “Second Story Gang” (often referred to in FBI files as the Magaddino Burglary Ring) was a specialized crew operating under the Buffalo crime family during the 1960s. Their name came from their expertise in high-end burglaries, often involving entering the second story of residences to…

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Trade vs Scholar vs Bios

during the aughts, the 2000’s, i was a bartender. I worked in nightclubs, banquets, restaurants and pubs. I learned what it took to master this craft at the groove/opm. a mixologist is a scholar, learned recipes, experiments with unique, exotic flavors. learns the history of the…

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day 6

even though you right a schedule and look at the screen, sometimes nothing comes out.or shit comes out. that not even worth the time posting, like a resume, or so part of a story that is not time for yet. we need to finish this in…

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Day 4: writing schedule 9-29

Day 4: Today I went through the first half of the book, found the two weak chapters and made a plan on how to finish the first half. Day 1: monday 9-29 Pacing Pass 1: The Stag Party Setup 8 hrs Focus entirely on Chapter 8–10.…

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translate the break – antigone

ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν πείσομαι – I will at least obeyτοῖς βεβῶσιν – those who are establishedἐν τέλει – in chief authorityαἰτοῦσα τοὺς ὑπὸ χθονὸς praying – to those undergroundἴσχειν ξύγγνοιαν,- to have indulgenceὡς βιάζομαι τάδε – because I am violated in these things. οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ…

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Day 2: very special 105 minutes

Day 2: Light editing on chapters, and i think i find my gino, he is a gemini, and he looked me in the face and told me disturbing things, to maybe impress me or intimidate me, either way noted and used. I searched for a myth…

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Let’s Gamble

Lets gamble, with time – with vulnerability, we have ninety-nine days till 2026.it been a long time since i seen my facemy smile again, let’s gamble away my fear. lets gamble away the time, and by the end of the yearmaybe by the thanksgiving parade,ill not…

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Categories: Poetry

morning pushback

There is such resistance / trapped within the striation of my muscles , sharing it would be self-indulgent, selfish, and unproductive.break down to share, either through talking or writing. Talking didn’t help much, or is helping less but if felt good to write this

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Salvatore Frangiamore

(Aug. 7, 1905, to Nov. 28, 1999) From Dicarlo Buffalo First Family Salvatore “Sam” Frangiamore was born Aug. 7, 1905, to Salvatore and Francesca Garofalo Frangiamore of Mussomeli, Sicily. (Mussomeli is an inland town in the province of Caltanissetta.) His father sailed for America in the spring…

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dan sansanese

Born in Buffalo to Sicilian immigrants, Sansanese began his criminal career as a juvenile. Unlike many who started with petty theft, Sansanese was comfortable with extreme violence from the start. The Chief Enforcer (1945–1969) After his parole in 1944, Sansanese became the “muscle” for the Buffalo…

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joseph fino

Name Joseph Michael Fino Race White Age 28 Birth Date 13 Mar 1915 Birth Place Milawaukee, Wis Residence Place Buffalo, Erie, New York Registration Date 23 May 1943 Registration Place Warsaw, New York, USA Height 5” 8″ Weight 165 Complexion Ruddy Hair Color Black Eye Color…

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libra

he left looking for a fix or a fuck,Whether it was a Coke or a girl, he did not care.Gino was off the rails, unbalancedUnbalanced Gino was scary, unbalanced Gino could stop Niagara FallsUnbalanced Gino devastates.

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Categories: Poetry

the lake it take

lost in between the cracksIt calls us near – the sirens on cups in subterranean cafe we played in that 20′ haze,hot tub nights, kill bill on a dipson theatre iberia blue opm in the aughts,our weekly rituals in the haze. meaningfully talks not superficial.supportive, funnyhe…

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meeting

my body doesn’t want to do this.small gurgles pressurize in my belly, theyamalgamate growing.inhale and exhale become less, forgetting to breathe calmly.my hands shake. my lips press together, andI lick my lips while they are inside my mouth.the back of my leg, chicken skin quivering. when…

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The Forest Ave Boys

Chapter 4: KARALUS-WIP Meanwhile, the red siren’s lights flashed through the small window in the abandoned laundry building nearby, alerting State Detective George Karalus’s consciousness. George looked up from his long, yellow legal notepad; he was a middle-aged man with a belly. He dressed in a…

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St. Stan’s

I studied your yearbook,Felt you there in a room – leading –Head perched on neck adorned by a bob.I trolled through thousands of newspapers.your story shone just as your name, whichtoppled to your demiseI walked to your tombstone,A short measure from where the toppled was buried…

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Categories: HER NAME IS ELAINE

Harpies

the warning came from the harpiesone day the care will wan,the jingle jangle will not hold as well,its avoidant and excepted,it indulgent and excepted,

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3

They like the furies the fates, and graces,the morai, the erinyes, the charites

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HNEI-Chapter 7

Burmon INN Elaine gripped the hard steering wheel of the red Chevy on her way to the stag party. If she had just turned around, she could have defied her fate. She glanced at Marie in the bucket seat, her eyes fixed on the passenger mirror.…

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The Interview

I prepared as well as I could, I gave it my all, and that’s all I could do.I’m not a Phi Beta Kappa, but I could make words out of the 3 Greek letters…

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Advertising

tension, with unusable force bursts, waiting. look – see a soft glow.the first of many long breaths before you’re subconscious and coerced to take some more, just a few more. Stop, more  </END> Every time I look at social media, I get more anxious.

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Kindergarden

90 minutes 12 minutes –plus 3 minutes for cleanup-6 groupsgo.bingo, you get a sticker andGo, you got a bingo – flower in a pot.and go flower with circle petals bingoand goStrawberry, what color are strawberries? Do they have their seeds on the outside or inside? bingoGo,…

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Norman Maccaud

in construction Norman Maccaud a Canadian Bank-robber, counterfeiter, and charismatic goodfellow was born in Toronto in 1933, he spent his summers with his grandparents in the Scottish waters galavanting around with pigeons and cousins the most free he ever felt. Norman spent 30 percent of his…

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Everything is fake now

Everything is fake nowon social media,Reference your resources.This one didn’t finish that 14 million dollar projectThe other didn’t go to law school. But where confidence lies.

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Family History

Don’t forget where you’re from,but don’t look in a newspaper,don’t ask any questions.If you do seek answersthe familiar cuts you off –left with only keywords and search results. Maybe you should not have lookedin the databases, the newspapers,the fulton history of buffalo.But you did and atsunami…

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Poets

I wanted to askof the old protest,while the current one was happeningWe sat in a basement listening to the consciousness suitesweeping us off are feetaloofwe waituntil next time.

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Afoot

Draw a picture of the footfor Dr. Williams. Foot muscles,are different from your hands. Try to controlyour toes –mental pain? Practice, push thebig toe downinto the ground. Push the pinky iso Kai iso with the big toe. Next push the heel  Isometricpressure down. After time your brain is freed from the torment it…

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villanelle

IN CONSTRUCTION No one to fear, but me to fight,one eye in – the past, one – mouth to sayrage forward purpose, move towards the light. Though family splits, friends with bigger blights,New souls born today, old souls yesterday,No one to fear but me to fight,…

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Realign

what am i offering to the world?Aristotle’s says you need to purge tragedy,but what are the consequences? That is why I was late to my yoga class, running to rush in at the last minute. Embarrassingly I’m making it a bit of a habit, adding this…

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iso kai iso

– iso kai iso – equal and equal – balance It’s been 10 years sincemy dad lastly gasped on April Fool’s Day. My two children never met him; one was in my belly, and the other was yet to be. My son loves April Fool’s Day…

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Pythian Instructions

I can not liemy muse has caressed my templesafter falling to my knees at her threshold. Anima Hilda…American English Grecian goddess…I bring Giftsof my braids,long strains of hairbunched into threeseparated, twistedI make a Vocation. I’ve seen the grey-eyed starethat penetrates,when our lenses meet,after you twist your…

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Surge of Energy

Ride with it when you wake up and have a surge of energy.gloomy skies colding in opposition to the spring.give it up Janus, we yearn to spring forth.A bit more waiting?before thedaffodils project up toward the always goldenand we walk upward withbarefeet.

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HNEI- chapter 31

Chapter 31: June 2, 1970 AM “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash played on the clock radio when Elaine opened her eyes. Her consciousness mingled with the lyrics, invoking instant tears. The thoughts of Thomas Trent’s head knocking the ground and Gino’s lethal threats, weighing her…

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22 years ago you told me a story

It’s been 20 years since Robert Creeley’s passing and almost 55 years since the historic protest of 1970, which led to both the University of Buffalo and Buffalo State closing their campuses before final exams. Recently, I have been researching the time between fall 1969 and…

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evvepe moi kaliope

Springtime –The ice boomIt lifts. logos, theword flowsfrom the erie lakedown the riveraround a grand island,down the rapidsplummeting some 83 ftinto the gorge andonto Lake Ontariovoyaging onward to the seaway existing into the Atlantic Ocean.

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I’m sober – now what?

I stopped drinking years ago. The first year was hard. I sought out a therapist 3 years ago, and it took me over a year to decide completely to quit. In the beginning, I would do a dry January or 100 day challenge, proving to myself…

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Today the day

In University in 2003, I was a poet with confidence of which I have since forgotten. I gathered information so that i could be the best poet. I wanted to meet a real poet so I wrote a email to Robert Creeley not expecting to get…

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an excerpt

This form would breath downmy neck down my backtulips tipping downaway from the sunDrooping familar whispering in mytickling In theresitance moving

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