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(Google Clues: SEX NUDITY NAKED RUSSIAN GIRLS CASH GUN MORE SEX MORE NUDITY MORE GUNS ACTRESSES SILLY)CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-86663433616778667582020-10-20T19:16:00.001-05:002020-10-20T19:16:58.936-05:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRUG84G7-PS_F4yuQFlLsOWbrRkekEytNeAtBr7QhqJa33m4bGgn-C_sN7q_Ydg8c9Hnen8ZLvaAYHoIrfqJgJX16H47kFIZWwKo1K9DmVHWSw0Er7nLBRbA-s9DVkr3rmUyt/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="959" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRUG84G7-PS_F4yuQFlLsOWbrRkekEytNeAtBr7QhqJa33m4bGgn-C_sN7q_Ydg8c9Hnen8ZLvaAYHoIrfqJgJX16H47kFIZWwKo1K9DmVHWSw0Er7nLBRbA-s9DVkr3rmUyt/" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-63768307668324671302020-10-12T12:27:00.001-05:002020-10-12T12:27:53.414-05:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…presents ‘Today’s Movie Review’:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps,
like yours truly, you had never heard of the sequel to the Peter Sellers
classic film, ‘Being There’ (based on the novel of the same name by Jerzy
Kosinski). Maybe you, too, would have been caught as gleefully unaware as I was
when I nearly stumbled over that very gem lying amid a misplaced pile of VHS
tapes for sale right in the middle of the sidewalk in Chinatown!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbV7Bz9FROdL4AwziQqw5Zn6TPiynXCsYUB0u6G8DlWUonnR4O4WGpqVg5Ni0HdFrlEkKJPnNCDzs9-4lgH6beW-cg9cC8wONO5y0X2oIAu9Veaf9Gcxzvy-xyKtzQMXi8X6Gt/s1280/Being+Here+Sellers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbV7Bz9FROdL4AwziQqw5Zn6TPiynXCsYUB0u6G8DlWUonnR4O4WGpqVg5Ni0HdFrlEkKJPnNCDzs9-4lgH6beW-cg9cC8wONO5y0X2oIAu9Veaf9Gcxzvy-xyKtzQMXi8X6Gt/s320/Being+Here+Sellers.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s called
‘Being Here’ and is even more eerily prescient than the original. In that one,
of course, Sellers played a simpleton named Chauncey Gardiner, or ‘Chance’, who
is inadvertently drawn into a world of increasing political power – all the way
to President – without ever actually having a clue about anything. This time
around our hero is, hilariously, severely mentally ill. His name is Ronald D
Clump, or ‘Clumpy’. The character, although purely fictional (so much so as to
stretch our willingness to buy into the absurdity of the story far beyond any
typical suspension of disbelief) nevertheless feels oddly familiar. Perhaps we
should thank the sheer brilliance of the late Mr. Sellers for that. It’s worth
watching for his performance alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Without
giving too much away, I will tell you that our man ‘Clumpy’ blindly yet enthusiastically
leads our country through a hair-raising series of mis adventures, including
everything from plagues to burning infernos and devastating superstorms and
tornados, to sexually groping to boundless, tumbling escapades with porn stars,
from staggering incompetence to over-the-top corruption and authoritarian
takeovers and crack downs… and more! Sure, many of the giggle-inspiring cheap
cracks and gratuitous insults would never make it into a movie in today’s
Hollywood – who would have thought racism and physical threats could ever be so
funny? But all that is just the tip of the melting iceberg. Like with Clumpy
himself, it may look like I’m giving it all away, but I’m not. Why, many of
those seeing this wondrously preposterous flick won’t even realize they’re
paying for it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Unfortunately,
the sound quality is a bit ‘off’ and the voices out of synch, not to mention
that the musical score is more than a tad tiny. A bad copy? Perhaps… It’s a
small price to pay compared to the exorbitant but totally fair amount I had to
shell out to that poor gentleman there on the sidewalk. He didn’t seem to speak
English and most likely didn’t realize how much this rare treasure is actually
worth! Heck, the gold foil wrapping alone is bound to cost you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: Bembo, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Which is
neither here nor there. That’s not what this rare masterpiece is all about,
which, my good friends is (as the title says): Being Here!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Two thumbs
up the old wazoo for this one!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJ__bpwcjD3em3PGfo26ypR2DgOhogbKzwCaCbG2uFjEprV_TCs7dIkjGiDlQlfVz5feE8vYncMJ-hwsf1XPE0mn08Q8LcAkRSLA3z2r5Y-qTGJLuu9xE0x1g6IRIV2TszNpd/s1426/Being+Here+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1426" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyJ__bpwcjD3em3PGfo26ypR2DgOhogbKzwCaCbG2uFjEprV_TCs7dIkjGiDlQlfVz5feE8vYncMJ-hwsf1XPE0mn08Q8LcAkRSLA3z2r5Y-qTGJLuu9xE0x1g6IRIV2TszNpd/s320/Being+Here+poster.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-15843397948057762552020-07-24T08:52:00.002-05:002020-12-31T08:34:10.689-05:00<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 107%;">Fall-Room Dancing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">[seen through 2020 vision]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Dancing was an easy thing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">until I fell face-first<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and all the judges sneered and
laughed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">declaring me the worst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Aha!” I thought, ‘and there it is,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">it’s a blessing, not a curse!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I can be a fool and fail<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and still end up in first!’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As my nose, it bled, my throbbing
head<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">exploded into verse:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">‘There’s no need to think or care,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">to ponder or rehearse!’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">‘It’s just a waste of energy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">to in logic get immersed,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">you see, it’s what you want to see,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">be it backward or reversed!’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Before I rose up off the floor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’d declared myself alert,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">my face, it smarted, but not my
brain!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">the truth no longer hurt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Call me a fool, it’s just a name,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">but there’s no need to call a nurse,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">especially not a mental one,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">they’re judgmental and too terse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Then I stood up to proudly stand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">there in my bloody shirt,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">perhaps I cannot dance at all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">but talent’s just a curse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I say I won, and there you go!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">your presumptions have been burst,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">you can scream and wail and curse
and all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bembo",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">but reality’s been reversed!<o:p></o:p></span></p><br />CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-87521502195922184242016-05-11T09:07:00.000-05:002016-05-11T09:07:02.314-05:00White Swan <h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
I pull my way onto the bridge</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a
swan flies across and over it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">something
I have seen before<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">once,
somewhere in a scattered past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now
she’s back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">her
neck craned<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
huge wings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">beating
hard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She
seems as if she’s soaring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">relative
to my misdirected path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">making
a mockery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
my transition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Colors
are ceded to youth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nests,
to their season,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while
pathways <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are
borrowed from the sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They
pierce the fringes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
the soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
then<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 3.25in; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">depart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-72737281368535568452016-04-15T11:00:00.000-05:002016-04-15T11:00:51.936-05:00Empty Spoons <h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 2.5in;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The driver sat down by the edge of the water,</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> XE "<span style='font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The driver sat down
by the edge of the water,</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">spoon in hand, pondering what flavors life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">had left to offer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bored with blue, the fool stood up and waved his spoon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">unaware of his own melancholy. “Declarations,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he declared, “Declarations will be made as to what<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it takes to suit me!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The water snake could not hear him from where<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it slithered along through the shallows – a turtle slipped<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">off of its rock only to take a swim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While fish chortled about in schools of leisurely thought,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">oblivious to one of theirs which floated, catatonically,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to the surface, as if in tribute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And, off across the way, a fiddler tugged a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sloppy bow across a row of gleaming strings –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Damn Hippie!” the driver scowled,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Damn fool!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some play their songs with empty spoons,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">others stand there, famished,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while the water turns bloody red.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-48887542651918269532016-04-11T20:19:00.000-05:002016-04-11T20:19:44.587-05:00Mending <h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 2.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pollen wafting flakes in daylight green</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> XE "<span style='font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Pollen wafting
flakes in daylight green</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">clarinet scaling the second floor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bellies torn and stitched<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">calico cat guarding my feet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poppies, paper, pink and orange<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Percocet doing its best<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You look like a man on vacation,” she
said<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">discomfort rests<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Better days have been wasted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">isn’t that what we’re here for?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a butterfly beats it into the wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">shorts unsnapped beneath my shirt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sleep enchants – a luster to the breeze<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">so much is going on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sitting here, motionless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">waiting for the time to heal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So much has come and gone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an old dog barks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Ah, a hero,” she said</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: 1in;">ah, a hero.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: 1in;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: 1in;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: 1in;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: 1in;"><br /></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-8381420871485597552016-04-10T15:12:00.000-05:002016-04-10T15:12:24.027-05:00The Statue <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here,
within the softness</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span>
XE "<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Here,
within the softness of the snowfall</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
the snowfall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">its
allure may find me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">catch
hold of me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
gradually freeze my soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">into
stone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
is innocence in the eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">my
hunger almost mistakes it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for
snowflakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
white as the page<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
begs to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">despoiled
with a pen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
long to let go of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all
cause for concern<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
allow such hypnotic beauty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
consume me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">so
that I might soar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">past
the constrictions <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
all things wasted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
land <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">within
a smile,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a
dusted white<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bone-hard
statue,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">its
thoughts</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">unknown.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<br />
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CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-10872082428592508962016-04-09T16:07:00.000-05:002016-04-09T16:07:46.128-05:00These Cars <h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All these cars</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> XE "<span style='font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>All these cars are
shaped the same...</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are shaped the same -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">blobs in the Autumn light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know how to start <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and I know how to end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it’s filling in the middle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that perplexes me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A crayola<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a blank page<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and lines from my own head<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s all a great cycle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I tell myself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but I’m stuck with one loop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This may just be <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a seasonal slant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rebutting a different <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">perspective<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every rut<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">has its down side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and its upside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But then again, tell that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to the rusted, abandoned thing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sitting, running-board deep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in a dried-out swamp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And what do you get?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The thought that bumper <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to bumper, it might just be you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The leaves bury these things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">centimeter by centimeter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">over the years, and yet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in the middle of the night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I roll over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: 1.5in;">into Spring.</span></div>
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CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-62511114286925155802016-04-08T14:24:00.002-05:002016-04-08T14:24:41.508-05:00A Curious Little Chain of Events<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Sucking
flowers</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> XE "<span style='font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif'>Sucking flowers with a vacuum</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">with
a vacuum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">protruding
from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">a
fish’s mouth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">in
the very<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">presence
of an<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">apathetic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">ant
standing on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">a
broken golf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">tee
belonging <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">to
one Theo-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">dore
A. Klondike,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">a
curious<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">soul
who put a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">name
tag on a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">golf
tee, but not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">on
his baseball<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">bat,
the one that <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">he
uses to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">smash
golf tees, fish, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">occasional<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">buckwheat
pancakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">but
never ants</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">or
sucked flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">
<br />
<br />
(from a law school
class…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-31402805767229165192016-04-07T13:52:00.000-05:002016-04-07T13:52:40.286-05:00Mixed Emotions <div class="WordSection1">
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
sky is mixed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
light and dark</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span>
XE "<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The
sky is mixed in light and dark</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
clouds as wisps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
solid puffs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
white against<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">which
the thinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ghosts
of darkness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">contrast
and cross<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You’re
sorting out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">your sanity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
particles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
make no sense<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
paint themselves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
part of one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">big
picture that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rips
itself apart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
you hate it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">here
so very<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">much
that you could<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">never
love me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
sky screams rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
sunlight in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">scattered
layers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">across
the valley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whatever
card<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you
hold you drop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">down
on the floor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but
never bend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
pick it up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for
fear that it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">might
complicate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">your
situation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Look
out below<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but
not above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">explanations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reek
and wander<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like
to wonder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like
to ask you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">where
she went to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when
she went away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Condense,
let go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and,
dropping down,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">don’t
wave goodbye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
if it matters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
waiting’s free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
wonder not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but
it’s the chill</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">that’s
bound to kill you.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-78347484412287374352016-04-06T18:49:00.001-05:002016-04-06T18:49:45.014-05:00Real <h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 2.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span class="StyleArial">Did you
become real</span><!--[if supportFields]><span class=StyleArial><span
style='mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
XE "Did you become real on a day of" </span></span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
class=StyleArial><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></span><![endif]--><span class="StyleArial"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on
a day of double Percocets,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when
every slip into gentle sleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">brought
you back to me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God
help me if I’m<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">just
building another disaster <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">because,
if and when this one crumbles, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">there
may be nothing left<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Something
must be precious<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">enough
to actually exist in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
way that one would dream it –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">something
real enough to survive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
precious as that dream,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
one that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.5in; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">no
one could ever steal away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-40281425414665729162016-04-03T15:25:00.001-05:002016-04-03T15:25:30.380-05:00I Know You<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 2.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Across a plateau of sloping grass</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> XE "<span style='font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Across a plateau of
sloping grass</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">where shadows lean tiredly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> at
the full length of the day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And voices ring of distance, their
words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lost to afternoon sunlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The trees catch hold of what little<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">breeze there is and whisper to it:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> "I
know you..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Too little of this can be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">captured as a reminder,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> so
I cling to the spaces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Between sloping branches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for what they reveal of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Late-day light lying beyond,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stretching out, as it does, from other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> edges
of other places,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chasing me with the starkness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of the thought: "I know you"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in; text-indent: .25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I
know you," it says, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I <i>know</i> you".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.25in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-62719221180614196592016-04-01T16:39:00.000-05:002016-04-01T16:39:53.291-05:00Two Lovers Lie on Sand<div class="WordSection1">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 184.5pt;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One
cloud’s shadow</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span>
XE "<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>One
cloud’s shadow, two lovers lie on sand...</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">two
lovers lie on sand, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">naked
to the darkness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
cuts between them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Passion
was a smiling ray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
yesterday’s light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">against
which they wore protection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 2.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enter
now a character to fit a name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> – John was a solid one, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jack
more relaxed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dylan, lord of the sea –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
the salted spray of wind-borne words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–
Mary, bland,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maureen,
ethnic,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Martha,
lost between her times<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and thus her sheets –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
do you do? – What was your name?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">no,
wait... your name escapes me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
do not see you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">though
I wish I might have<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for
feelings lost are still remembered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dress
again,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wrap
yourself in cloaks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
guard against the chill of being known<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
if shame was a gift<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
be congratulated for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
am a lovely man,” he said to himself,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rolling
over and mumbling,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Don’t
you know me?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
see a far-off sail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">still
bathed by the sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
kissed by wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“May
its lure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">never
fail me,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">she
thought<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Was
this sand or water?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
sheets were cool,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
distances, spent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Love me,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cooed
the wind,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“love
me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and then it was gone...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he
rolled back over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
kissed her cheek<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She
smiled,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hugged<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
squeezed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-19115902751408224612016-03-30T09:59:00.000-05:002016-03-30T09:59:00.148-05:00Along the Road <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-indent: 184.5pt;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Non-elected
candidates</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span>
XE "<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Non-elected
candidates live on</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">live
on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on
bumpers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while
colleges<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stick
to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">windows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">along
the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People
pull up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
parking lots at parks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">where
you know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">they
go to meet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">interesting
new<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">friends<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">along
the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yesterday’s
machines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lie
scrapped,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">smashed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
leaking oil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
rusted hunks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">adorning
a hill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">along
the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
can tell the age<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
politics by where<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it
once parked itself in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">concrete
slabs, patches,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">potholes,
and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">jet-smooth
stretches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">along
the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An
overpass overlooks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">faster
means of travel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while
lot after lot of wasted space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">adorns
the street like banners stretching<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">greed
along with disregard and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">time
discarded<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">along
the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acetone
gas escaping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from
freshly-painted, double-yellow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lines
and little arrows, words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
lines of various means, direction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
import<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">along
the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
gaps between beginning and end,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">no
longer the act of going,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cars
plugging along declaring:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
am here”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sit
back buddy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“me
first!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">along
the road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sitting
in traffic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">going
nowhere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a
sea of fleeing cars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">thinking
of that time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">when
movement and air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">came
together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">along
the road.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-16514723230637932682016-03-29T13:35:00.000-05:002016-03-29T13:35:31.474-05:00The Last Light <h1 align="center" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-indent: 2.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
last light tingles</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span>
XE "<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The
last light tingles with its tart taste for</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with
its tart taste for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nuances
not scripted by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tongue
or finger –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
elusive as an<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">unlit
candle waiting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for
the moment to care –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">daring
the receding mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
formulate in functions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">beyond
its dimmed dexterity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
trickster’s gleam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">denying
sleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">surrender,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
death of</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">a
day.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 2.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-75697447444926699152016-03-28T08:23:00.000-05:002016-03-28T08:23:08.926-05:00Disintegration<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></h1>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 2.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> XE "<span style='font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>This is the time of
day that has meaning</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is the time of day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that has meaning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">twenty-four hours wasted on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fifteen minutes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and tomorrow morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it may suck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> II<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Suck”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is too harsh a word<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but I shall leave it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and see how it feels<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> III<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">notepads<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">self<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">storage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reminders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that I am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> IV<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just as I rob<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">each empty page<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of its purity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">so does the empty page<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">growing up through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">my daily life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">threaten to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">overwhelm me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Take a glance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">at midnight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> V<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Words arrive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">where sleep eludes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> VI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">curses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">distractions</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-indent: 1.5in;">gaps.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-5244970179230155162016-03-27T23:02:00.002-05:002016-03-27T23:02:45.814-05:00All the Little Pack Rats<div class="WordSection1">
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 184.5pt;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="mso-break-type: section-break; page-break-before: auto;" />
</span>
<br />
<div class="WordSection2">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All the little pack rats<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pop their heads into their pillows</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> XE "<span style='font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>All the little pack
rats pop their heads into their pillows...</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and puff the filtered air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as if innocence could float<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">through foam and feather<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to and fro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as easy as a breeze<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Follow them <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for all they think<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">there’s more they know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">no less than all forgotten<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and all that we’ve been taken for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as we’ve pulled ourselves along<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a trail of knots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">both fresh and frayed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as twisted as any<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sign of light might be <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to the night-weary eye<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glittering shadows of dust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">greet the sunlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in dance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as dreary as anything that glows <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">yet still<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as peaceful as the gentle pull<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that glides us through here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and as easy as a breath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The sordid whines and screams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of daytime deserve no less<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">than to desert us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">unto ourselves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if only to have <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">us listen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to the muted breathing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of innocence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">muffled as it may be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">yet with its depth intact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">World-weary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">after a full week<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of drenching rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the only sounds left welcome<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are those that echo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">silence, those<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that greet you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">like a single wave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tracking to the edge of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of an untouched morning lake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">one pulsation from the beat of life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sent to stroll its rolling way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">across the perfect stillness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as if a rat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">had held its breath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">just long enough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to jump<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So there it is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">arriving as it will<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in the dusted light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">or here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pulled through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on its way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to wherever it <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">may take us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Forever riding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on the fluffed and foolish<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fantasies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as we find them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in the soft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">near-silent breath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of such innocence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as lies tucked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">into their pillows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as safe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and soft and caring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as any trusted cloud <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">could be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-2981686426209263082016-03-25T22:04:00.003-05:002016-03-25T22:04:53.096-05:00Late Days<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.0in; text-indent: 184.5pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
was a song she sang with her eyes</span><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> XE "<span style='font-family:
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style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if
only in passing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a
lullaby sculpted in sadness and yet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> sung with celebration and joy…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
this is what I knew of her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
so the morning sky squatted down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with
overcast tones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cracking
open only to give birth to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a
confusion of sun and cloud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lying
naked across the table, crying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
sat at a chair there, staring at a cup <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">empty
enough to count,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">swathed
in light and shadow and thirst,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">unsure
of what if any<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">meaning
even the least of it might hold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beginnings
must beg their endings, I guessed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rising
up to no occasion,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pushing
myself from the table<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with
little resistance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
no really clear sense of where to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
was later in the night that the candle would ignite <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">golden
diamonds in her eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on
which she delicately balanced all caution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">against
the passion of the flickering light, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">encapsulating
the questions of the day into the mysteries of the night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
arose from the table and stepped back into myself,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">turning
only not to see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in
another direction, as the splinters of light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">strewn
across the table behind me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">slipped
and faded away into the distant corners of the room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Late
season cicadas sang of summers lost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
I opened the door to step out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">into
the world in which we only pretend to own control<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
purpose and direction of the path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lying
before me partially obscured by overgrown weed and grass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
hours were due to drift by too slowly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">before
coming to an end too soon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
designs that my mind had held the days before<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to
be obligations on these very passing minutes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">had
lost all color and focus between then and now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
yet she would hold the evening in her hand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
if it were a brush<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with
which she might create the very vision<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
every human emotion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">without
so much as a conscious thought of doing so<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
were things to do – I knew –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">places
to stop without going,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">thoughts
to capture before their outlines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dissipated
into the shadows,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">simple
things now too complex to figure out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
a way, this day had a sense of needing to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">start
over again, maybe more than once,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">there
was nothing there to see past it with,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">no
glass clear enough through which<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it
might pause long enough to reflect upon itself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
this is it, this is what it is</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, it might have told me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
if saying such a thing could be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what
it would be like to be imbued with wisdom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but
there was not conscious truth to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">each
step that I had taken or would yet take – they simply were<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time,
when it arrived, would find me neither<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sitting,
standing, knelt nor dancing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">there
could be no determined approach into,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">away
from, or around <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
song with which she sang her every move<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
now, the ground simply slipped away beneath me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with
more direction than intention,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">simple,
sweet sunlight streamed past like a series<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
post cards sent as if to suggest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
there might yet be other places toward which to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
I cannot remember now quite where it was that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
did or did not quite get to,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> only that faintest of choruses of distant
sounds…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the
saws, the cicadas, birds and crickets, the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">whole
host of breeze-borne voices muffled by something to the air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Set
two places at the table and wait<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for
an empty chair to gain meaning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">conversations
come and go without the need<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> for someone to share them with –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s
never the words themselves that crave the company<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
greatest accomplishment of some late days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is simply making it through them –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">eventually
our bearings will remind themselves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
what and where they are,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">eventually
something in everything will make as much sense as we allow it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Talk’s
only talk – traded across a table with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> someone who is or is not there…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">at
the same table I rose and stepped away from hours before<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it
is the evening sweeping down around me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it
is the light in the evening that will capture me for all and more than I know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She
will smile with a shy sincerity that will beguile me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">she
will allow me the pleasure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
aching for places unknown and unseen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
I will wonder how it is that I might touch such a thing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 112.5pt; text-align: center;">
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">even
as I wilt before the glorious sparkling of its light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br clear="all" style="mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-46819956520735699752016-03-23T20:40:00.000-05:002016-03-23T20:40:56.941-05:00Misplaced Letters<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 184.5pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 2.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span class="StyleArial">Down in
the middle of</span><!--[if supportFields]><span class=StyleArial><span
style='mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>
XE "Down in the middle of whatever might have" </span></span><![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
class=StyleArial><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span></span><![endif]--><span class="StyleArial"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">whatever
might have happened,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">where
even ambiguities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">get
all muddled up,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">someone
placed some words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">into
an envelope –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">shook
it once or twice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
shoved it in the mail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
was an especially foggy morning,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">even
the mist didn’t know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">where
to go, a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">morning
in which the patterned steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
a carrier’s feet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">disappeared
into the confusion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and,
with that, all was lost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s
a sea of scattered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">leafs
out there:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rocks,
limbs and human garbage,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">things
both tossed and lost –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and,
out among it all, there must lie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a
misplaced bundle of decaying letters,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">scrambled
thoughts</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">that
never found their way.</span></div>
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CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-54508963004438193032016-03-21T10:24:00.000-05:002016-03-21T10:24:08.504-05:00On the Tilted Water<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;">
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rocks slowly on the tilted water,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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leaving the gentle evening to its own company<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whether it still has the gumption to sing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ring or clang with any clarity at all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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chase their fading selves across the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dimly lit surface of this particular dream world,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beyond some diffuse sense of themselves,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as directionless as the dark itself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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churning tides and tight-knit eddies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in search of sounds that rise yet never fall –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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row their aching bones along the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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way the wind might have carried them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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through the quiet calm of approaching night,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in search of shining reverberations of the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-6501416753977440852016-03-20T21:32:00.001-05:002016-03-20T21:32:47.920-05:00Intro<div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He rode his solitary
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">down through the far away,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and then beyond, to the point of
departure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and anger,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">backing and slapping, backing and
slapping,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stealing away a grain of sand at a time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">from the fortress-like faith of
invincibility<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">caught by the rise of the wind off the
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">gusts of air hurled by the raging
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">beyond the dark gray cloak of the
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">where no man belongs for long<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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strife,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on mornings kissed with the sweetness
of the sun,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in the bold light of sunsets reflected
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in the coldest darkness of a howling
night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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swirls,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that lifts and carries a falling leaf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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canvas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">shed of uniform and marching in
isolation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">weary of life yet far too full of it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he was a stranger unto himself,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">awakened by the least intentional of
dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and left to sit, bathed in salt and
sweat,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">high above the churning catastrophes of
life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he was the man who came from all of
his other worlds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">searching through the sweetest depths
of insight,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">striving to reach across that last
expanse of air,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">aching to seize whatever was there and
hold it, as a single breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;">On
a late-running day in early August</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
stopped to buy a cup of coffee and a muffin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
listened to the bell ringing no sooner than I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">had
reached back to my truck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The
bridge is closing! The bridge is closing!” it declared,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “The bridge is closing and everything must
stop!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She
swings open to the river and closes to us, this thing…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">this
thing that gets cursed by its neighbors yet helps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">us
to remain what we are and what we’d like to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On
this morning, though, she knew no friends<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
she sat there – still – and waited for all of us,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">road
or river bound, to wait. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
barge was sitting below and downstream,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">drifting
sideways in the current, while the gates<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rested
in place and a tee-shirted man rushed franticly to-and-fro,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">trying
desperately to fix whatever it was that needed fixing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">until
at last the light turned green, she opened back up to us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
we were allowed to pass on through toward wherever, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">perhaps,
there was no real urgency to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She
wasn’t in a mood to be swinging open that day, I guess,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that
eighty-year-old creature of painted steel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She
was probably broken again or, at the very least, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">just
a little too damn ornery to move. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She’d
been known to feel that way for days at a time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but
that particular day she was in a peculiarly particular way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">not
to be friendly to that poor old barge stuck down there below us,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
well as to its tug and any and all of the too-tall pleasure craft<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">belonging
to owners dopey enough and/or cheap enough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">too
moor them too far upstream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
as long as she felt that way, someone or something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">whispered
into her ear, she might as well let a few of us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pathetic
motorists on through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
so we won the little war on this one, otherwise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">everyday,
morning, a day in which I hadn’t even felt like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fighting,
and yet somehow went on to win<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-15499773886232506152016-03-19T08:26:00.000-05:002016-03-20T11:22:55.070-05:00Heat<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc344373142"><br /></a></h1>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sitting
in the sunlight</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span>
XE "<span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Sitting
in the sunlight dancing deluge</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dancing
deluge driving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heat
burning through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Distorted
dream-like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Conscious
fears that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
is not normal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is
instead fatal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
not immediately<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
through permanence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
the wind bucks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Backwards,
reversing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
upon itself as<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
pain says<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
know you”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
for today’s purpose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nothing
matters, for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Everything
else has<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Been
removed and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All
that is here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exists
only for the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instant
in which<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
is perceived<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
partial glimpse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Through
squinted eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
mortality<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dries
out in the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
CJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13954636431690205778noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17013752.post-8325757639814907322016-03-13T11:01:00.000-05:002016-03-20T11:23:06.484-05:00Within the Darkness of the Night <h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;">
</h1>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 2.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Within
the darkness of the night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
do not know what love is</span><!--[if supportFields]><span style='font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span></span> XE "<span style='font-family:
"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Within the darkness
of the night, I do not know</span>" <![endif]--><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span></span><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">songs
of the dark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">speak
only of the spaces <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in-between<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet
there is warmth here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
can hear the water trickle by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
can hear and understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">how
there are voices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">within
a chanting summer chorus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as
unique as my own <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
yet also truly knowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and
of the distance <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">between
us all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Within
the darkness <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of
the night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
do not know <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what
love is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">if
I listen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">very,
very <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">carefully,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">can
hear <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you
breathe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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