| Lesson 6
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2024-07-26
At our cores, we are just little double helices which are desperate to keep replicating.
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| Lesson 5
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2024-07-26
Nailed it! This is a fine poem, intelligent, coherent, well realized.
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| Mutability
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2024-07-23
Excellent craftsmanship, Dougie.
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| Lesson 2
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2024-07-22
First class!
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| Lesson 1
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2024-07-22
Yes, the hat is the perfect metaphor.
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| hillbilly elegy
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2024-07-22
Well said.
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| Just Don't Ask Me to Do the Parallel Bars
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2024-07-22
There's no way of knowing, but it's something to celebrate.
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| Lion
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2024-07-21
But something that one forever regrets, thinking over and over, "Oh, I wish I hadn't done that."
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| A day before it sets.
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2024-07-21
That sounds like an excellent plan.
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| Things Fall Apart
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2024-07-20
Based on what I've seen, dementia is sneaky. Those it takes seem not to realize that they've been taken and time has stopped.
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| Soap Bubbles
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2024-07-17
Let's hope so.
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| Fourteen More Lines on Whisky
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2024-07-16
I would say that whiskey can be a delight, an excellent companion, a hell raiser and a fair-weather friend. Make mine an Islay Scotch.
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| hydrology
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2024-07-15
True enough, and a lot of rain before the rain causes the earth to regurgitate.
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| R.I.P. F.i.in.e Moods (1989-2024)
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2024-07-14
Okay. You got me with this one. I'm happy to hear that you no longer have to stay in hiding.
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| The Well-Read Possum
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2024-07-13
Very nice.
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| Plays On the Mind
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2024-07-13
Nicely written.
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| Still
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2024-07-11
Well done; vivid, cinematic.
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| Knewton
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2024-07-09
Another gem.
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| Have you ever come to Burgas translated by Ann Wood
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2024-07-07
Very good.
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| The Past Is or Was
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2024-07-05
William Faulkner famously said, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." I believe that.
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| One of Those Days
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2024-07-01
Good one! Bang. Solid. Focused.
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| A Terrible Infant
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2024-06-24
This poem's not very good. Let's fix it!
I recollect a nurse call'd Ann,
Who carried me about the grass,
And one fine day a smart young man
Came up, and grabbed her comely ass.
She did not make the least objection!
Thinks I, "What a sight!
When I can talk, I'll tell my Mamma"
She'll say, "That's not right."
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| Void
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2024-06-22
Nicely written, Dougie.
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| FELONY
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2024-06-22
Though there probably are accomplices nearby, you are the primary miscreant. I, too, am guilty.
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| In Short...
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2024-06-21
You should. This idea that a change in one's height alters his relationships with the rest of the cosmos is interesting.
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| from an outside point of view, we look the same. from the inside, we know we are all different
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2024-06-18
Good point.
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| Gates of Ill
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2024-06-17
While Fox is a spastic colon of mis- and disinformation, befouling everyone.
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| produce
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2024-06-13
Ripe fruit remains a great pleasure for me. Peaches are among the very best, but it's hard to find truly ripe ones. Right now, our cherry tree is overloaded with delicious fruit, and the blueberries will be ready soon, so I won't be in the market for peaches in the near future.
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| INEXPLICABLE
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2024-06-11
There are so many ways of dying. It's hard to know how you may feel. A lot of people die in their sleep. Does a dream tell them they're headed off? People dying of injuries probably realize that the jig is up (and may be thankful that it is). I was on my motorcycle once, going 130, when a woman going maybe 70 suddenly pulled in front of me. I slammed on the brakes. My front tire was skidding, and I was what seemed like inches away from the back of her car. Do you know what I thought? "Uh oh; I guess that I'm going to die.". It turned out that I didn't.
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| THE CAFE BY THE SIENE
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2024-06-10
There's no way of knowing, but your sweet, vivid memory is a fine thing by itself.
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| puppet
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2024-06-10
Nicely done.
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| What's happening to English?
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2024-06-09
I was familiar with "nebbish.". I knew that it was a Yiddish word describing a loser, like, for instance, Boris Johnson. It turns out that "schmegegge" also is Yiddish. It means "hot air" or "nonsense,".the kind of rot spewed by almost every politician. Both terms are useful, but I wonder where you encountered them.
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| Pile of crap
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2024-06-05
Both were despicable.
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| The Endless Song
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2024-06-03
A poem in slave dialect by a woman from a slaveholding family; an unfortunate selection.
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| PASSION DOWN THE RIVER
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2024-05-28
Very effective symbolism, Allen.
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| Down the Road Apiece
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2024-05-28
Sound advice from a fit old bard,
Who slothful folks will disregard.
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| Worthy
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2024-05-28
You're worthy. Misfortune is not the same thing as inferiority.
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| Hofstadter Inspirational
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2024-05-27
Well done.
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| The Usual Way
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2024-05-27
Good one!
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| May Day
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2024-05-27
A nicely rendered odyssey.
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| Another Shore
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2024-05-27
I'm with Allen. This is a well-crafted poem, Dougie.
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| Cream cake reasoning
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2024-05-23
Good point, though I'm not sure she should buy the cake.
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| LITTLE SPIDERS
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2024-05-21
I've had those. They're very distracting. I hope that yours go away soon.
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| Busy Dying
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2024-05-20
"Gluey inertia, circling immobility," exactly!
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| Prigogine
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2024-05-20
Equations are little crutches humans use to convince themselves that they understand the universe. The universe, of course, is infinite and not subject to any rules. It is beyond understanding.
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| No Answer
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2024-05-18
It's probably just inertia. You may as well keep going.
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| what runs the rocket industry?
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2024-05-16
It's the usual story. The capitalists are spending lots of money because they expect to make even more money later. There aren't any mines on the moon yet, but there will be, and military bases, too.
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| the culture of suicide
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2024-05-14
That's an interesting idea. I'll have to look at the statistics.
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| The White Line
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2024-05-13
Your attitude could be called a kernel of conservatism. The more of them that you have, the more thoroughly conservative you are.
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| News that change the direction of the world (but not the trajectory of the planet Earth) !
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2024-05-13
The news organizations' reason for being is to find something, anything to tell us.
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