tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65416494109152635492024-03-13T00:44:34.942-04:00Nomadic HomeI am a nomad,
a resident of the realm of stories. My own stories, and those of travelers I meet on a path, unknown. Stories fashioned from the chaos of memory. Stories a little bit true, a little bit false, and the rest just made up. Only inside our stories,
in what is said, and unsaid,
do we discover the light and shadow of that worth touching,
of all that is human ~ zachary jack marcusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-83405278766959686862020-01-31T17:30:00.002-05:002020-01-31T18:13:05.918-05:00Most Days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Most Days"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Most days I am able to harness some hope and strength </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Others, it is elusive and hard to find </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My weariness is enveloping</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If the Coronavirus came round here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">would I last days, or hours?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's what's hard to hang onto ... humanity ... my own humanity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It takes so much of my life force to stand up and walk even a few steps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I love greeting people, smiling at them, talking with them, feeling their inspiration and strength that they take from me that helps ease the steps of their own path</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Much of the time I feel like I'll just fall over </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and just not get up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">like a dying horse </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then I talk with someone, and gain strength from the exchange of kindnesses between us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sometimes water just leaks from my eyes, like rain trying to soften the hardened cracked earth of the desert</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The night is long and dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Today I ate a sausage mcmuffin with egg </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and 2 boston creme donuts, a small milk and small coffee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The fatigue in the eyes of the young, old before her time, McDonald's girl, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I smiled. She smiled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Livin the dream" I whispered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Livin the dream," she softly volleyed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> She had hours to go, sitting in that window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I returned to my parking lot, my soul full</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1/29/20</span></div>
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Last night I began my second 6 months living in my car. It snowed in the parking lot where I spend most nights. Got down to 21° with a windchill of 11°. </div>
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Received the above junk email before dawn...</div>
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"Now let's see,</div>
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To which dreamy place shall I go?"</div>
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Dream time over ...</div>
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A woman just knocked on my window.</div>
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Homeless, in a shelter with her sister.</div>
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Hungry.</div>
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Gave them some money for food.</div>
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8 November 19</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is that I have now survived long enough</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on this blue sphere in the lightless heavens</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that I no longer know a goddamn thing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And that leaves me in raw companionship</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Under a light down blanket</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The unearthly stillness </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of September </span></div>
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have you recognized your madness </div>
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and do you admit it? </div>
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Have you noticed that all your foundations </div>
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are completely mired in madness? </div>
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Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? </div>
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You wanted to accept everything. </div>
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So accept madness too. </div>
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Let the light of your madness shine, </div>
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and it will suddenly dawn on you. </div>
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Madness is not to be despised and </div>
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not to be feared, </div>
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but instead you should give it life...</div>
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If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, </div>
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since it makes up such a great part of your nature...</div>
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Be glad that you can recognize it, </div>
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for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit </div>
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and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, </div>
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since life itself is full of craziness </div>
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and at bottom utterly illogical. </div>
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Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. </div>
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Life itself has no rules. </div>
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That is its mystery and its unknown law. </div>
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What you call knowledge </div>
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is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life."</div>
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C.G. Jung</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An older woman walked up to me </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">after my morning swim</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as I was walking stick my way out to my car</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> slow as a fucking slug</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and says</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"I watch you come in here every day </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and exercise in the pool </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">... </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">I respect you so much"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Thank you," I replied. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"You are most kind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You just made my day"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Didn't help me move faster</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">or without my good friend, pain ... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">but that touch of simple human kindness inflated my lungs with emotion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">with gratitude</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">As my long time compadre and friend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Cameron</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">is prone to say when moments like these </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Better than winning the lottery"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ zjm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">16/8/19</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I set out one night </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When the tide was low </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There were signs in the sky </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But I did not know I’d be caught in the grip</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Of the undertow </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And ditched on a beach </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Where the sea hates to go </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And a chill in my soul </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And my heart the shape </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Out!</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-76091720869751056912019-08-15T12:31:00.000-04:002019-08-15T12:31:04.876-04:00Visitor<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">visiting light </span></div>
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slips through my fingers</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-71835450702125593882019-08-13T11:59:00.000-04:002019-08-13T12:02:44.213-04:00LeavingI don't need a reason<br />For what I became <br />I've got these excuses <br />They're tired and they're lame <br />I don't need a pardon, no no, no no, no <br />There's no one left to blame<br />I'm leaving the table <br />I'm out of the game <br />I'm leaving the table <br />I'm out of the game <br /><br />~ Leonard Cohen <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 14px; max-height: 999999px;">
</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-22670401794041304102019-08-11T20:57:00.000-04:002019-08-11T20:57:00.662-04:00My song for today<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-46855222161908466432019-08-10T07:14:00.000-04:002019-08-10T07:14:04.716-04:00Exhale<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Beautiful sunrise with cool low humidity air greeting my morning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Left my parking lot and stopped at McDonalds to get coffee and a sausage sandwich. Talked with a young man about to end his 10 hour shift, go grocery shopping, then home to his 2 and a half, and 1 and a half year old kids, spend some time with them, and his wife, before trying to sleep this afternoon to ready himself for work tonight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He was full of optimism laced with fatigue ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am in front of the Y, getting mentally and physically ready to make my way to the pool to swim and work out this body that battles me constantly ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thinking of my daughter Megan ... my grandkids Emilio ... Camilo ... and Neali, asleep far away on another coast ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All of us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tired</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Resting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Getting ready </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hunting for cagey optimism </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To live another day</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">~ zjm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">10/8/19</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-55222119511168791062019-08-09T10:57:00.000-04:002019-08-09T10:57:23.330-04:00From the parking lot I call home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That tames the soul</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-5030262485267267922019-08-07T21:09:00.000-04:002019-08-07T21:09:51.108-04:00Relinquishment <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome or not</div>
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Of rebirth </div>
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There we are"</div>
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as beauty</div>
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Fading shadows of the encroaching Nevada desert circle me</div>
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scattering my memories and sense of self</div>
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But morning returns and desert air enters and departs at will</div>
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Here I am</div>
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Cave painting on the desert floor</div>
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Donner Pass behind me</div>
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along with the muddled fog on the sea</div>
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~ zjm</div>
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Reno</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-38338747564945147592019-06-12T10:48:00.000-04:002019-06-12T10:59:00.187-04:00The Estate of Zaudliza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(My New home)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Life is pain, highness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Anyone who says differently is selling something."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ William Goldman </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My physical pain today, riveting through my body</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Each breath a hammer blow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't breathe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't think</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Can't write</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not even a breath of respite </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As if I am deconstructing in front of myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">me, the only witness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I scream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I weep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I cry out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I give thanks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ zjm</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-2468606802903108672019-06-04T12:34:00.001-04:002019-06-04T12:38:52.617-04:00Another Morning <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just an ordinary day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Beginnng quietly with phantom reflection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of what it still means to be here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">On earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Taking air</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Accelerating into conversation among friends and strangers at a coffee bar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Deadly spiders in Australia </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Alice Cooper’s Spider Show and love ballads</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ His influence on Michael Jackson’s Thriller</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And last night’s Wailers show in Quebec City</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Moved on to the new Spectrum offices</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lots of white blue and black office decor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Accented by lurid </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> unnatural light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Staffed by a hum drum millennial </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With barely one foot in this world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We stood near to one another</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Two patrons dreading the ‘service’ to follow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She, 70-80ish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Me, 60-70ish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the hushed silence of another business day</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I returned the internet router and modem </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From my just foreclosed upon home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While she shuffled through papers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I suppose you will need to see the death certificate”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Yes, in order to change the name on the accounts”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A new kind of hush was born while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hum drum millennial left for the back room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Without a word or gesture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To scan the proof of no life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Needed to update records of the living</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I reached and touched her arm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“I am so sorry”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Thank you,” her voice trembling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As she placed her face between my beard and shoulder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Both hands around the back of my neck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hum drum millennial returned from the back room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Scanned death work in hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Office muzak undisturbed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Computer keys altering the reality</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of everything but the human</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My kiosk companion grabbed my free arm as </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I moved to the door</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My baston easing the way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Take good care of yourself, man”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“You too, ma’am”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our tears embracing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ zjm</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-45392105126980747972019-06-01T19:20:00.000-04:002019-06-01T19:20:39.638-04:00The Difference <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Kids give up on their parents</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In a way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Parents can never give up on their kids</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">~ zjm</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-47786980952441702792019-06-01T18:34:00.000-04:002019-06-01T18:34:33.945-04:00W. B. Yeats <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As I thought of these things, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and it seemed to my troubled fancy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">that all those little points of light filling the sky </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">who labour continually,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">turning lead into gold, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">weariness into ecstasy, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">bodies into souls,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">the darkness into God; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift soul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> weighted with so many dreams.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-51371174853642270972019-06-01T11:05:00.001-04:002019-06-01T11:15:53.602-04:00Uncle Walt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Uncle <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51568/o-me-o-life">Walt</a> was correct, but only in part...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The truth is ... we WILL contribute a verse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For better and worse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At best, the path behind us will be strewn with light and darkness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Good intention and broken effort</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Touches of love and kindness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Inflicted sorrow and pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With the memory of others</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our only legacy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And a bended knee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Beneath the garish sun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">~ zjm</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-91917594734516461642019-05-31T07:04:00.001-04:002019-05-31T07:08:34.556-04:00Ferlinghetti (I am paying attention to my elder)<div style="border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(70, 70, 71); color: #464647; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I asked a hundred painters and a hundred poets</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">how to paint sunlight</span></div>
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on the face of life</div>
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Their answers were ambiguous and ingenuous</div>
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as if they were all guarding trade secrets</div>
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Whereas it seems to me</div>
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all you have to do</div>
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is conceive of the whole world</div>
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and all humanity</div>
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as a kind of art work</div>
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a site-specific art work</div>
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an art project of the god of light</div>
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the whole earth and all that’s in it</div>
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to be painted with light</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And the first thing you have to do</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">is paint out postmodern painting</span></div>
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And the next thing is to paint yourself</div>
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in your true colors</div>
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in primary colors</div>
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as you see them</div>
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(without whitewash)</div>
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paint yourself as you see yourself</div>
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without make-up</div>
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without masks</div>
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Then paint your favorite people and animals</div>
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with your brush loaded with light</div>
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And be sure you get the perspective right</div>
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and don’t fake it</div>
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because one false line leads to another</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And then paint the high hills</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">when the sun first strikes them</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
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on an autumn morning</div>
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with your palette knife</div>
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lay it on</div>
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the cadmium yellow leaves</div>
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the ochre leaves</div>
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the vermillion leaves</div>
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of the New England autumn</div>
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and paint the ghost light of summer nights</div>
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and the light of the midnight sun</div>
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which is moon light</div>
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And don’t paint out the shadows made by light</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for without chiaroscuro you’ll have shallow pictures</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So paint all the dark corners too</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
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everywhere in the world</div>
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all the hidden places and minds and hearts</div>
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which light never reaches</div>
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all the caves of ignorance and fear</div>
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the pits of despair</div>
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the sloughs of despond</div>
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and write plain upon them</div>
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“Abandon all despair, ye who enter here”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And don’t forget to paint</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">all those who lived their lives</span></div>
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as bearers of light</div>
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Paint their eyes</div>
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and the eyes of every animal</div>
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and the eyes of beautiful women</div>
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known best for the perfection of their breasts</div>
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and the eyes of men and women</div>
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known only for the light of their minds</div>
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Paint the light of their eyes</div>
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the light of sunlit laughter</div>
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the song of eyes</div>
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the song of birds in flight.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And remember that the light is within</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">if it is anywhere</span></div>
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and you must paint from the inside</div>
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Start with purity</div>
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with pure white</div>
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the pure white of gesso</div>
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the pure white of cadmium white</div>
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the pure white of flake white</div>
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the pure virgin canvas</div>
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the pure life we all begin with</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Turner painted sunlight</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with egg tempera</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
(which proved unstable)</div>
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and Van Gogh did it with madness</div>
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and the blood of his ear</div>
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(also unstable)</div>
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and the Impressionists did it</div>
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by never using black</div>
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And the Abstract Expressionists did it</div>
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with white house paint</div>
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But you can do it with the pure pigment</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
(if you can figure out the formula)</div>
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of your own true light</div>
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But before you strike the first blow</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
on the virgin canvas</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
remember its fragility</div>
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life’s extreme fragility</div>
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and remember its innocence</div>
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its original innocence</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
before you strike the first blow</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Or perhaps never strike it</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And let the light come through</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
the inner light of the canvas</div>
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the inner light of the models posed</div>
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in the life study</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
the inner light of everyone</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Let is all come through</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
like a pentimento</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
the light that’s been painted over</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
the life that’s been painted over</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
so many times</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Let it surge to the surface</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
the painted-over image</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
of primal life on earth</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And when you’ve finished your painting</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">stand back astonished</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
stand back and observe</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
the life on earth that you’ve created</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
the lighted life on earth</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
that you’ve created</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
a new brave world</div>
</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-66293791663354845722019-05-29T11:56:00.000-04:002019-05-29T11:56:42.069-04:00Coffee Monologue<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She sat in a chair next to the high top table at which I stood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Eating my oatmeal and drinking coffee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Librarianish looking </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thin, hair pulled back tight around her head</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Olive Oyl with glasses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">70 or so</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“It’s not that we don’t want them here...</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It’s just that they come here with their kids</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And diseases that make our kids sick</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then they use our doctors and medical care.”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">She took a last sip of her herbal tea</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“Our generation, those of us from the Sixties</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The last great generation ...”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“They should listen to us before our kids all get paralyzed from these people”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Got to get work,” she announced before walking to her car</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished my oatmeal and coffee in the same silence I began</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">~ zjm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-57928896613201581222019-05-29T10:56:00.000-04:002019-05-29T10:56:44.171-04:00Dwelling Place<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Reality</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That highly touted land of fiction</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Those who claim to live there</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Mindless drops of water</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Slipping down a bathtub drain</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I’ll return to the sea and join</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Unrestrained currents wrestling at will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Seeking a place to sit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Or swim</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Or drown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">~ zjm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6541649410915263549.post-80806153792486078822019-05-24T13:23:00.004-04:002019-05-24T13:43:17.028-04:00In America<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In America ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Millions of unused empty homes every night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Millions of unused empty second homes every night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">600,000 homeless Americans every night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Millions of homes taken by banks and real estate/mortgage companies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with no credible effort to assist homeowners to stay in their homes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Over 5 million USA foreclosures since the 08 recession</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By banks whose officers still run the USA economy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whether they served the Obama or Trump governments</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pillars of society</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">who populate the boards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of our schools and community organizations</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">while legally stealing millions of American homes and dreams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My home ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Purchased for $175,000 in 2004</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">30 year mortgage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By 2008 recession devalued to $85,000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wife/childrens mother moved out in 2011 “giving me the house” in the divorce along with sole responsibility for our </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">joint mortgage payments </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">no longer affordable due to health problems and income changes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Numerous banks refused to modify mortgage </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to my Social Security/Dsability income</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to make it affordable for me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to keep my home me for me and my two daughters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“Do not qualify”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Denied again and again </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">May, 2019</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Forcibly evicted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">by bank</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">that is now selling my $175,000 house</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for $60,000 ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">... same bank that refused to modify my mortgage </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to an affordable</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> amount for me to keep my home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">so, this week, my children have lost the home they lived in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">since they came home from the hospital</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Their home of dreams and memories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For now, as I near my 65th birthday, I rest under the roof</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of my 2009 Honda Civic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">... and envision a new future</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Still full of boundless hope and optimism</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some say “I should have planned better.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Others say “I should have gotten a better job after I was laid off.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Shoulda Coulda Woulda</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Easier said than done ...</span></div>
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