Tag: ShortStory
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Dream Within A Dream
Dream Within A Dream Hubris aboundsWe understand the universeThe gibberish of clownsGlaring through theirTopsy-tervy frowns Life slaps my unsuspecting faceAs each and every morningIts complexity is unfolding Perceptions ephemeralAs each day makes it plainConceit of understandingIs fundamentally insane Have to question what’s real Is anything, or All just a dreamWithin a dreamWithin a dream The…
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Save Our VA Protest – 12/5/25
Only 3 of us walked the line at the Ajo Gate for the shift change this morning. But we had good responses, about 80%, like last week, and only one overtly negative … a bouncing thumb down… Ob, and some yelled at us that regardless of our protest, Trump still loves us… which generated a…
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Youngstown
Youngstown LyricsBy Bruce Springsteen [Verse 1]Here in northeast Ohio, back in 1803James and Dan Heaton found the ore that was lining Yellow CreekThey built a blast furnace here along the shoreAnd they made the cannonballs that helped the Union win the war [Chorus]Here in YoungstownHere in YoungstownMy sweet Jenny, I’m sinking downHere, darling, in Youngstown…
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Like To Think It’s More Than Five
Share five things you’re good at. I like to think I’m good at anything I put my mind to… but that’s BS, and I know it, even though we all do it, at least to some extent. Well, there are those who seem to believe that they are good at nothing, and I’m truly sorry…
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Relative Time
Relative Time – In Dreamscapes in my early yearshours felt like days anddays like weeks but now, the yearsseem like mere weeks anddays, merely hours in my early yearsi daydreamed a lotespecially in school rather than our dailymind-control ‘lessons’ andconformity rules but now, i still daydreama lot, and relative timeseems the main psychic drain as…
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The Only Constant, Change…
What is one thing you would change about yourself? Nothing. I’ll continue to change and grow regardless of my personal wishes, anyway… I am, as are we all, the result (or consequence) of the ‘birth-lottery’ and a hundred-thousand years (at least) of evolution and our particular positions in the space-time continuum. We are fitted into…
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My Latest – December Morning Ride
December Morning Ride Rolled out in theMorning sunshineA few contrailsCrisscrossed above With deep blue overheadTrailing to very paleOn the distant horizonsAs Sol’s long raysTook the chill away Only a few bikersAnd a couple ofwalkers crossedOur path out and back Another cool, quiet mornOn our multiuse pathEl Loop de Tucson –LE – 12/2/25
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To Meat Or Not
What are your feelings about eating meat? It’s complicated. I grew up in a ‘meat and potatoes’ household. Meat was part of almost every meal … That seems like a lifetime ago. Over the years, I kept hearing and reading how ‘red meat’ in particular, with all its hormones, antibiotics, and preservatives, was more detrimental…
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An Autumn Mood
An Autumn Mood… Cloudbursts soak my clothes and shoes,Leave me wet and cold —Web-bound bugs struggle –LE
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