Category: ShortStory
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Controversy
Controversy sandwiches of lunch meats and cheeseonce a heavy dietary influencenow makes me sneeze lactose intolerance, it seemslike most of humanity’sdietary allergies plus carcinogenic proteinsfrom animal fleshsuper processed to last forever at least at Micky-dee’s sounds appetizing, I knowprocessed foods killing youever so slowly in your sleep with incurable cancersand legitimate questionsgo unanswered from the…
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Memoir Memory – High School Silver
A humbling experience, as has been most of life so far… I was going through an old journal that rekindled a humbling experience from high school, my senior year, of an audition I’d hoped to walk away from, a big gold medal winner… It didn’t happen as I’d hoped.. Second-place Mantra I am the chosen…
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Writers of Old Collectively Groan
— From Some Old Tomes — The Deerslayer Groans Deerslayer-HawkeyeUnwilling agentChingachgook lastChief from genocideUnleashed David CopperfieldUriah HeepDark capitalistHistory seenTold and sold asHuman natureNobility civilityMust maximizePower and profitFor utility sakeA necessity Plato and AdamSmith gave coverWhile AureliusMentoredMethods andMore platitudesFor conquestNever ever rest One world ruledBy philosopher kingsWholly ownedRaped ravagedAnd squanderedThe devil’s ownApostles andPriests of theNew World…
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Fate’s Illusion
Romantics may disagree, but love is a process that must be cultivated carefully over time (IMHO)… And I was raised by a romantic (my mother) to be one; but my life experience has shown me otherwise. –LE Fate’s Illusion what are the chancesof love at first sightof a soul-mate what I see everywhere islust at…
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From My Winter Haiku Collection
Or again, from my Winter Wage-slave Collection… # 012 – Desktop In Winter Desktop in winter,cursor points at START button —mouse sits on its pad –LE
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Looking Very Old, I Suppose
Looking Very Old, I Suppose I’m oldI know but don’t feelas old as I look this is what ‘old’feels like – to me slower – less flexibleless physical strength less staminamore frequent naps injury healing takes longerbut eventually succeeds eyesight waningfocusing a frequent pain surprised by the ancient guyreflected in surfaces I stroll by but…
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The Man’s Too Strong
The Man’s Too Strongby Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler) I’m just and ageing drummer boyAnd in the wars I used to playAnd I’ve called the tuneTo many a torture sessionNow they say I am a war criminalAnd I’m fading awayFather please hear my confession I have legalised robberyCalled it a beliefI have run with the moneyAnd…
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Quick-draw Meditation
Iaido is the sword-art of quick drawing the katana and striking in the same stroke. It’s an art I practiced as part of my Aikido training, as most of the projection techniques are based on sword movements, the self-defense movements swordsmen used when they were without their katanas. Iaido Meditation eyebrows growing outdroop past nose…
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First Southwest End Of The Loop Ride Of The New Year
Took this year’s first ride down the southwest end of the loop today. It’s gotten even more disturbing. The west side of the river, along the gated condo communities, looks like it’s been vacuumed clean, grated, and raked like a Zen garden. There was not a single piece of stray paper or trash of any…
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Another Consideration of Free Will
Another Consideration of Free Will I’ve been thinking about the polarity between free will and fate. The evidence of my more than three quarters of a century convinces me that we are most likely firmly attached to the fate-end of the spectrum between those poles. I used to think that we had some choice in…
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