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The Adventures of Clifton Ray Middleton

Chapter 5 Sophomore Year ~ Undefeated Almost — The beginning of 10th grade was beyond exciting. My classes were interesting Biology, French, Geometry and I joined the wrestling team. I did have a glitch when the Geometry teacher said that to take her class, Mrs. …

Wrestling

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The Adventures of Clifton Ray Middleton

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Chapter 8, It only gets worse.

The start of my junior year was hopeful. I had worked all summer building high steel grain elevators. Everyone knows that high steel is dangerous but in those days the contractors hired young farm kids who would do anything to make $5.00 and by anything I mean climbing, working, welding…

Short Story

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Chapter 8, It only gets worse.
Chapter 8, It only gets worse.

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Chapter 7 ~ Rite of Passage ~The Car There is nothing, nothing more important than having your own car. Just know that. The world’s deepest divide is between those teenage boys who have a car and those miserable, hopeless failures who do not have a car. To have a car…

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Adventures of Clifton Ray Middleton

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Farm Sale Going out of Business Everything Must Sell

All of us could see the hand writing on the wall. We had grown more corn than the market wanted to buy and gone into debt for fertilizer, seed, fuel and equipment to do it. No one had enough to pay the banks back so the Selling Out sales began…

Food

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Farm Sale Going out of Business Everything Must Sell
Farm Sale Going out of Business Everything Must Sell

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The Adventures of Clifton Ray Middleton

Chapter One — Dirt Born — I was dirt born the son of a share crop farmer in 19 an 47 in an age that was before everything, really. Life on the farm was full of hard drama; that would be a combination of hard work, high hopes and endless conflict with nature, up close and…

Agriculture

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The Adventures of Clifton Ray Middleton
The Adventures of Clifton Ray Middleton

Apr 4

We have the numbers

Marijuana and how the Democrats can win the midterm elections. Marijuana policy can determine the midterm elections and which party controls the House and Senate. There are seven battleground states where the contests will be close, expensive, and deeply psychological. Politicians will be looking for any way to differentiate themselves…

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We have the numbers
We have the numbers

Jun 4, 2021

Turn Your Poetry Collection into a Book
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Denise Larkin

What's Poetry

What's Poetry Take a small thing And make it Big Make my eye a Star My mind, a fresh Twig That's Poetry

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What's Poetry

Take a small thing

And make it Big

Make my eye a Star

My mind, a fresh Twig

That's Poetry

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May 20, 2021

How To Write A Poem Like Elizabeth Bishop
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Joshua Cronkhite

That's Poetry

That's Poetry Take a small thing And make it Big Make my eye a Star My mind a fresh twig ..

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That's Poetry

Take a small thing

And make it Big

Make my eye a Star

My mind a fresh twig ..

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May 2, 2021

I hear you, I feel you as someone who has never been curated.

I hear you, I feel you as someone who has never been curated. This may comfort you, https://cliftonmiddleton.medium.com/medium-is-a-glory-hole-words-are-sexxxx-ce4f2dfdd2c1

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I hear you, I feel you as someone who has never been curated. This may comfort you, https://cliftonmiddleton.medium.com/medium-is-a-glory-hole-words-are-sexxxx-ce4f2dfdd2c1

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Mar 31, 2021

Soul & Sea October
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Vaishali Paliwal

That's poetry!

That's poetry! Take a small thing And make it Big Make my eye a Star My mind a fresh Twig

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That's poetry!

Take a small thing

And make it Big

Make my eye a Star

My mind a fresh Twig

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