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Robert Trakofler
Stories (12/0)
On a Wing and a Lagomorph
I remember reading that we would never truly grasp delight, if we didn’t know pains distress. I couldn’t bring myself to open the locket I was wearing, maybe I wasn’t ready to view joy in the face of so much despair, or perhaps I would just collapse in the sheer futility of my resolve. This cheesy heart-shaped bauble held so much power over me, if I listened hard enough, I could hear it laughing at me “come on, take a look… bunny!”
By Robert Trakofler3 years ago in Fiction
Environ-mental & Refuse
My personal journey into environmentalism started very early right after my parents divorced. My father then lived with my grandmother I would regularly visit them on the weekends. My grandmother was a child of the great depression and as such taught me the value of things, of not wasting! Over the years she instilled these habits into me. I often watched as the world around me became steadily less focused on fixing things to a throw-away society of over-packaging and cheaply designed obsolescence. Woven into the fabric of these things came a time of the loss of pride in manufacturing and slowly drifted into a loss of pride in workmanship this became the age of outsourcing and employer and employee loyalty slowly declined (and still is in my opinion) This first poem was written in these reflections...
By Robert Trakofler3 years ago in Earth