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| B | | BOREDOM: | Boredom decreases with age. With more to say on a shrinking stage in a shortened play, it isn't boredom although it can be rage. |
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| C | | CREDENCE: | Reality isn't for me. I look away from roadkill. I don't want to see. |
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| D | | DIGITAL SPECULATION: | Minds have been modified from original versions and formatted to fit highly defined screens fully and easily. Public probes rewind altered history in strictest privacy only for you and me. |
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| G | | GONE: | Nothing in the ears · Over the eyes shades from the sun · No other obstruction · Orifaces open · Inlands loud and clear · Sensed clumps of trees · Pass through humanity · Dry debris · Release. |
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| I | | INDIAN JOHN EXCERPT: | His head feels just about right.
His hat feels just about tight. |
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| K | | KANSAS CITY 1938 | Beggers were too plain to see. No AC. No TV.
Still, back then you knew who you were in Kansas City. |
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| M | | MILLENNIA: | On consideration, what in haiku to do with more than one? | | | |
| BILL MURRAY: | Wish I were with Bill and the Ohmigolly Tribe on the banks of the Madonna, making peace, frying bread, smoking iowana! |
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| N | | OGDEN NASH: | On reading Brad Leithauser's book review of Douglas M. Parker's biography, The Wall Street Journal, 4/15/2005
Because the subject stashed away substantial cash in no way proves his writing is trash. His meaning and meter might be brash but time after time his bent rhyme is a flashy smash. Frankly, I consider it rash for another light verse writer to bash Mr. Nash. In fact, I say balderdash and whatever else it might take to permanently settle Mr. Leithauser's hash! | | | | | LOUIE NYE: | Whatever became of the guy? |
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| O | | OLD ENOUGH EXCERPT: | Aunt Ida snuck a look at Miss Valjean like she wished she hadn't heard the kinfolk thing. She hunched over and began beating; you could see she had to do something with her hands and beating cake dough beat shaking Miss Valjean to a peak or thumb twiddling. |
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| ONWARD AND ONWARD: | Onward can mean you go forward but it doesn't have to. You can go onward backwards; oh, it's amazing what you can do. |
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| P | | PUBLIC SERVICE: | Before government became a business, say 40 years ago, tops,
US bureaucrats played a good game serving without products or shops.
Oh, for the days of public purpose commission
Before privatized customized consolidation,
Before local and global saturation,
Before competition overtook vision. |
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| Q | | QUESTION: | Why don't more women drive hearses
And fewer women contrive verses? |
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| R | | RATHER: | Rather say largo than fargo, rather make nonsense than sense; rather not feel duty bound to the real or obliged to stake presence on tense. |
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| RAZZ EXCERPT: | Razzmatazz 1980 took a deep breath that night; attacked least like the guns of Navaronne, most like the guns of Haiti. Experience had taught Razz to expect little quarter in present or future century from present or future company. |
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| RITA EXCERPT: | I tell you we missed everything because we were too close to see anything behind or ahead including the rest of the years rolling down the pike on dirtbikes and backpaths far better left unvisited. |
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| S | | SENIOR CHEERS: | When I was young and able,
Using sir and maam judiciously,
Writing thank you notes unflaggingly,
Excusing myself from the table politely,
Showing simple respect for the wisdom of years
Like offering a seat on the bus,
There were a great many of us and,
Here's the fortunate news,
There still are, my dears! |
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| SOMEDAYS: | You cannot get a break, ahead, outabed, an animated gif to take! |
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| T | | TWO-LINER LIBERTIES: | Go east, old and young women and men. Go east and, maybe in a couple of hundred years, you can go west again. (Horace Greeley)Beg pardon, yessir, there is a place like home but we do not need to go there, no'm. (J. H. Payne)About the clear call and putting out to sea, thankee kindly, Lord T, but no hurry. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) |
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| U | | US AND THE VATICAN: | Could a position on cloning prove an undoning. |
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| W | | WAR: | The price depends on the measuring stick.
Bodies or dollars, you takes your pick.
Credit Anon., 1994 |
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| WOMAD: | Sky River never lived at WOMAD. Too bad! Sweet young girlguys and smooth old hippies, real enough for the Seattle 2K event, were there. Hell, they were everywhere! Crowding Starbucks, toilets and the moment. So were the unusual heat and circular drum beat. Missing anything was rare. WOMAD never lived at Sky River. Too rad! |
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