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Other Than The ‘Game of Life’?
Real life, that is… What’s your favorite game (card, board, video, etc.)? Why? In my youth, I loved Space Invaders and Asteroids, but I’ve always loved Dominos and Chess as well. I’ve never been a big fan of card games, though I’ve played many over the years. My favorite now is Chess, though most people…
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Morning Wonders
Morning Wonders A large bird of prey glidesHigh in the pristine blue skyIn great lazy circlesAs all is caught in itsPredatory eye As a large black dogLopes across the distant pathAnd vanishes like fogBurned away by a blisteringlyBright Arizona sun The strong headwindAnd constant inclineDrive me into aHeart Attack modeThat I’ll hopefully survive Home at…
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Fields Of Gold
Fields Of GoldPerformed by Eva Cassidy (originally by Sting) You’ll remember me when the west wind movesAmong the fields of barleyYou can tell the sun in his jealous sky,When we walked in fields of gold So she took her love for to gaze awhile,Among the fields of barleyIn his arms she fell as her hair…
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Reevaluating Assumptions – Memoir Addendum
Reevaluating Assumptions – Memoir Addendum I’ve noticed that as I’ve aged, I tend to reevaluate my assumptions more frequently than ever before. That includes trying to puzzle mine into the greater zeitgeist. I wonder if others find this a common experience. Is everything I assume to be true actually true, or is it all just…
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The Heart Of Saturday Night
The Heart Of Saturday Nightby Tom Waits Well, you gassed her up, behind the wheelWith your arm around your sweet one in your OldsmobileBarreling down the boulevardYou’re looking for the heart of Saturday night And you got paid on Friday, your pockets are jinglingThen you see the lights and you get all tinglingCause you’re cruising…
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Another Cold November Morn’
Another Cold November Morn’ another cloudless November skysun-bathed landscape not too distant mountainsdim silhouettes on the horizon interim landscape bathedgolden, yellow, and brown counterpoints of black and graydefine the actors in Sol’s play as a roadrunner scampers inamong the plant-based thespians scrub-sage and Brittlebush bonesfreeze-dried in the night time cold home to moon-frosted apparitionswaiting for…
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Monster Mash – For Halloween
Samhain, Halloween – that special time of year when the veil between life and death is at its thinnest, most permeable… so they say… Monster Mashby Bobby “Boris” Pickett I was working in the lab, late one nightWhen my eyes beheld an eerie sightFor my monster from his slab, began to riseAnd suddenly to my…
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Believer
Believer by Imagine Dragons First things firstI’ma say all the words inside my headI’m fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh-oohThe way that things have been, oh-ooh Second thing secondDon’t you tell me what you think that I could beI’m the one at the sail, I’m the master of my…
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Brain-numbing Mendacity
Brain-numbing Mendacity utter mendacityup is downdown is upin is out andout is in you going to believeyour own eyes and earslisten to your own feelingsor what our owners andtheir lickspittles tell you victims are the predatorsthe predators are the preypoliticians only want what’sgood for you, not wealthand power, no way a rising tide raises all…
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