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Escaping the Entanglements of our lives

The reading of a book in progress as it slouches toward publication. The host shares his views about the entanglements of life and offer suggestions to help others to detangle from the entanglements of their lives. The host is the primary reader, however there may be guest readers, and with the reading of the final the chapter, an audible copy or a hard copy will be made available on Amazon.

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13:23

The do's and don'ts of an easy job

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2025/06/04

Ike Hayes describes the job to Goodson, then both men push carts of dirty laundry to the laundry to be washed. Goodson becomes upset about injustice he is suffering. Ike Hayes poses a question that triggers a tangent from Goodson, which leads him to ask Ike Hayes his views on the struggle for civil rights.

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18:10

A new cock on the yard

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2025/05/29

Ike Hayes is awaken from his dream by Officer Hits who introduces inmate Goodson, and tell Ike Hayes to show him what to do. Ike Hayes has worked alone in the laundry room for months, sort of a punishment, but he is suspicious about Goodson, because it is unusual for a new cock to be given a gravy train job.

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18:13

New cockerel on the yard

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2025/02/28

Inmate Hayes is suddenly awaken from his fantasy of freedom. He's introduced to a new inmate who has been assigned to assist him in the laundry room of the dorm. Hayes has expected a new person, but not a new inmate, fresh from the outside, and certainly not a black one. Hayes becomes suspicious and starts to suspect the new inmate as a plant, a part of a trap being sat for him.

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16:37

Sections from a mad man manuscript

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2025/02/27

Poems left by a struggling poet who freed himself by leaping from a window

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4:32

Test run

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2025/02/27

Testing to teach myself how to work all the buttons

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18:03

Rejected reflections

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2025/01/11

By happenstance our protagonist is reunited with an ex-girl friend and thoughts of love floods his mind, although the picture isn't quite right.

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18:48

Early struggles and attempts

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2024/12/26

We start at the return to a kitchen table where we find our besieged protagonist, a wanna be writer, engaged in self-reflection as he taps out words with his fingertips in an effort to finally finish his book. He has returned home from Chicago, in his view like a dog with its's tail between its legs, to what he calls his "beginning", and to a place he calls "the killing floor.

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26:25

section 10

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/12/06

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Untitled Episode

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/10/03

Thom arrives at school before the bell rings, and discovers a short period of time, where the students are relaxed and laid back. He's aware of eyes upon his new hair style, and likes the attention. He hears laughter from the classrooms as he walks toward Miss Magazine classroom, where encounters Mr. Lowtower who fully recognizes him from yester day. Meanwhile, in Miss Magazine classroom, there is a riot of fun, led by a popular girl by the name of Betty Snail. Th...

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9:54

section 7

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/09/26

Ms. Magazine is not in the mood to teach when she reaches the school. While she prepares to read the mail from her faculty mail box, it all falls to the floor, and as she gathers it up, Mr. Lowtower appears. As a jokes she invites him to tell her what is in the mail. It is mostly monthly reminders. The only new information concerns a school board ruling forbidding boys from wearing shoulder length hair. The idea of the boys at Lincoln, causes Ms. Magazine to laugh out loud. Mr. Lowtower...

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17:49

Section 6

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/09/19

Thom endures the pain of chemically straightening his hair, it is worse than pain he endures when his mother combs his hair. Thom leaves the barber shop, with his hair processed, and the feeling of being a somebody.

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9:36

section 4

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/08/22

Thom hears familiar music as he nears the gym, it is the same song he had listened to in his room. There's an organic concert in progress! Thom manages to reach the first row of student spectators. He sees a young entertainer called Billy Bam, who trigger's his imagination. Although Thom does not possess the entertainers' talent, he's convinces himself that the adoption's entertainer's hair style, was a key to the admiration he sought.&nb...

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18:06

Section III

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/08/15

Thom runs to beat the ringing of the high school bell, and runs straight into the hands of a high school teacher with a reputation for being nasty towards students, especially teen age boys. Thom is literally saved from being hauled to the front office, by his home room teacher, Miss Magazine.

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14:00

section 2

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/07/26

Thom attends Lincoln High School, which was called new Lincoln in reverence to the former high school, now called old Lincoln. Miss Magazine is Thom's home room teacher due largely to social changes and political unrest.

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12:43

A Hard Rubber Shampoo

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/07/18

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12:46

The end of the line

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/06/13

Our protagonist gets caught again, but refuses to snitch on Son Bolow, He is released by a bull, and ordered from the yard, instead of jailed to await prosecution for his trespass on rail road property. As our protagonist makes his way back, he sees the train, that he would have been aboard, He laments his fate as he hears the whale of train's whistle, He decries his failure, and not what he ...

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22:41

Imprisoned inside Yuma

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/05/17

Freedom lies across river, and our protagonist believes he has learned enough to make it across without Son Bolow.

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24:22

My uncomfortable sleep as freedom draws near

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/05/02

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22:27

One more thing to worry about

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/04/18

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21:42

Sunsets before it rises in El Paso

Escaping the Entanglements of our lives ·

2024/04/11

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