Posted by Brad Osborne on November 14, 2021 · 29 Comments
When I was fourteen or fifteen, I stole a motorcycle.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 29, 2021 · 20 Comments
I wanted nothing more than to see my brother eaten by a bear.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on September 9, 2021 · 20 Comments
I have lived a biker’s life,
yet now I ride with one fear.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on August 19, 2021 · 24 Comments
“I was once run over by an airplane”.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on May 29, 2021 · 22 Comments
I have lived a biker’s life,
yet now I ride with one fear.
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Posted by Brad Osborne on April 4, 2021 · 12 Comments
But it is hard to grow in your shade,
Privy to the mistakes you made…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on March 8, 2021 · 21 Comments
The pens of writers that came before,
The lives that did not look like mine…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on July 22, 2020 · 19 Comments
But there is no thought to this,
These crazy things you do…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on June 22, 2020 · 16 Comments
I wrote a letter to my love,
Tell me when your wedding be…
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Posted by Brad Osborne on February 27, 2020 · 20 Comments
We tell our teens,
“For you there is no limit”,
For fear their dreams,
May somehow be diminished.
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