| the brick and the stock market
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2024-04-21
On the one hand, everything constantly is changing. On the other, nothing changes.
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| ONE APRIL MORNING
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2024-04-20
A pleasantly economical slice of life. Nicely done, Allen.
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| Snapshot
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2024-04-20
Nice!
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| RE-LIGHTING MY FIRE
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2024-04-19
Inspiration can come from the most unexpected things. It's always welcome.
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| KITTI'S WORDS
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2024-04-19
This one leaves me wondering.
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| Environs
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2024-04-17
A poem that is almost Taoist in its serenity. Nice.
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| up to date
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2024-04-15
If you are interested in philosophy, start with epistemology. After you learn that nothing can be proven, walk away, as all of the rest of philosophy is nonsense.
But don't do as I did and go into economics. As it's taught in the United States, economics is nothing like a science. It is pernicious propaganda that is intended to justify the misery and inequity which characterize that society.
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| the unfinished ballad of
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2024-04-10
Well done. Haunting.
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| A Letter To Her Husband
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2024-04-08
Brilliant!
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| ON AIR TODAY
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2024-04-05
After the hospital stays and foul weather, even lead boots probably would have felt wonderful.
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| The Sprawl of Things
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2024-04-03
This is a common affliction. I'm not one of its victims, but the rest of my family...
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| Promethium
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2024-04-01
A very sad, affecting tale of one who never arrived? One who couldn't stay long?
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| go to bed, bukowski
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2024-03-31
Nicely done.
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| The Upskirts of Town
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2024-03-29
Saucy stuff!
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| UNIVERSAL RIGHT!
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2024-03-29
An admirable goal. It's hard to understand why anyone would find fault in your blessings.
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| Greendale
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2024-03-23
I'm a big Zuma fan, and an admirer of Neil Young generally. He's one of the few people whose guitar playing is instantly recognizable (except on This Note's for You; that one caught me by surprise). I'll look into Greendale.
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| I am looking after the wife who will find me
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2024-03-20
Humans are the dogs' gods.
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| A Poet's History
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2024-03-19
Like OTP, I disagree. You've outgrown artifice, and now your poetry has an appealing naturalism.
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| Guts and Glory at 28
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2024-03-19
Great concluding metaphor.
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| Lines Written In Windsor Park
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2024-03-18
Good one!
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| The train has left
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2024-03-18
Having taken the wrong train out of Munich, I arrived too late at the airport, missed my flight, and had to pay $2,000 to get back home. I know exactly what you mean.
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| Fragments from a Memory Lost in Time
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2024-03-17
Stream-of-conscious poetry (which shows up too frequently here) usually gives me a pain, but this nice. Well done, Sameen.
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| Trump
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2024-03-17
Trump is a low-rent demagogue who appeals to losers, members of our privileged class who feel as if they're not getting what they deserve. The world is full of people like them, and that's why Hungary, Italy, Turkey, India, El Salvador and probably other countries I haven't remembered have elected demagogues like Trump.
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| YOUR CHOICE
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2024-03-14
This is a very serious question in our age of effortless, relentless connectedness. Nicely done, Allen.
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| ship in the bottle (revised)
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2024-03-13
So it seems, and to what end? Nothing is resolved.
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| Everyday in Jumbleorium, XXXVI (Stopped in its tracks)
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2024-03-12
Leaving a trail of unused, unusable goods, like a slug's slime trail. That's how most of us age.
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| The Hum
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2024-03-09
I hear you! I have hundreds of CDs which I never play because the shit pop which plays constantly at work has caused me to hate hearing music.
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| Deposition
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2024-03-08
Nicely written.
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| understandable poem
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2024-03-06
And we wouldn't know.
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| for you
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2024-03-06
I agree with Sona.
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| Jen
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2024-02-29
A little gem.
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| the unions
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2024-02-28
So it would seem.
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| Erie Waters
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2024-02-26
Not really good, but interesting.
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| Critical Source
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2024-02-25
Of course. As Winston Churchill said, "History is written by the victors."
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| Dream by Ann Wood
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2024-02-24
Pleasant thoughts. I hope that your dream is realized.
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| When The Trolls Are Dragged Out
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2024-02-24
It's funny, isn't it? Germany was the bad guy in two world wars. Now, the Germans are just wonderful. The Russians played, by far, the biggest part in the fight against the Nazis. They helped us enormously, but we've never liked them. We endlessly antagonize them. I wonder whether that ever will change.
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| Ill-Fitting Jacket
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2024-02-22
Great metaphor!
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| sotheby's
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2024-02-22
Exactly!
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| HOSPITAL DAYS - 10
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2024-02-20
Well done, Allen. I agree that there are parallels between religion and modern medicine. Both demand our faith. Also, congratulations.
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| The 5th Dimension
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2024-02-20
Nicely done.
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| Alexeï Navalny
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2024-02-16
It's fun to blame communism for all of the world's ills, but Russia is not a communist country. It's a run-of-the-mill authoritarian state with a capitalist economy. Capitalism, of course, has produced more than its share of terrors, but the truth is that Navalny's death should be blamed on the Putin regime, not any particular economic system.
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| T R U T H - for sale
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2024-02-16
Exactly.
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| Crabs & White Wine
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2024-02-15
It must be very interesting to read your old diaries, encountering someone entirely different from you who happens to have the same name.
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| the filth keeps me grounded
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2024-02-14
Nicely done.
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| suspensive clauses
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2024-02-11
Trump's a moron, but even morons sometimes get things right. The Soviet Union is gone. The Warsaw Pact has disbanded. There is no need for NATO. It's nothing but a gang of goons looking for trouble. The world would be a much better, much safer place if it ceased to exist.
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| Your body is electric
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2024-02-11
The final stanza is a knockout. Nice work.
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| REFLECTION
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2024-02-08
Just what one should do on such a day.
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| The Final COUNTDOWN
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2024-02-06
Exactly,
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| Limits of Self
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2024-01-31
Great metaphors. Here's to the voyagers.
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| The Inevitable two State Solution
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2024-01-30
The "two-state solution" is a ridiculous fantasy entertained by Zionism's apologists. Zionism, like all forms of nationalism, represents racism. Israeli Jews already have officially taken most of Palestine, killing, evicting and severely mistreating Arab Palestinians. Piece by piece, they are incorporating the West Bank into Israel. As a result, there is no place in which to establish this second state. Moreover, the exiled Palestinians deserve to return to the homes throughout Palestine from which they were driven. A "Jewish" state, like a white South African state, is an abomination. It should be abolished, replaced with a normal, respectable secular democracy which is equally welcoming to Jews and Arabs.
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