| reverse model
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2023-01-31
I heartily endorse your last sentence.
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| trumpism
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2023-01-30
All around the world, there are generals who are very rich businessmen. They are not good people.
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| The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge
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2023-01-30
Well-crafted whimsy.
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| babel
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2023-01-24
Since everyone's voice is heard now, I guess that the stupid and insane have benefitted most.
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| 0530 Sunday
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2023-01-23
I thought that I was the only one who brooded so on desolate drives. Nicely done, Joe.
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| Road Warriors
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2023-01-16
Nicely done, Joe. There's something that reminds me of Jack London in this.
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| February 2017
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2023-01-10
This fine poem illustrates an important notion. The subject of any work of art is far less important than the treatment of it. The subject of this poem doesn't amount to much. The treatment of it is what warrants praise.
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| Love…Among The Ruins
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2023-01-10
A twilit sort of poem. Nicely done, Joe.
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| The Poet
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2023-01-10
Bravo!
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| This Lazy Day
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2023-01-08
Sounds delightful.
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| forgetfulness
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2023-01-08
This is a very nice, spare poem.
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| A Puzzling Idea
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2023-01-07
Even if some wanted to join, they probably wouldn't.
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| BEFORE THE MOMENT IS OVER
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2023-01-05
This is an intriguing, kaleidoscopic poem.
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| Encore Une Fois!
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2023-01-05
Very nice.
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| Infinite Musings
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2023-01-04
I believe that you're right, Joe. The matter and energy which are us will persist. They always have been and always will be. The charade of consciousness, on the other hand, is transitory.
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| P like Planet
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2022-12-30
At the planetary level, human life and all life is just a phenomenon which takes place, a process with no more meaning than the waves on the ocean.
You are right, though, to say that humans view every planet as "a carrot to peel." Look at the plans which already are being drawn up for the moon and Mars.
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| A TOAST OF SEASONS GREETINGS
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2022-12-24
A fine "card," Allen. Thank you, and the best to you, too.
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| Happy Christmas
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2022-12-21
We'll be waiting patiently, Elle. I hope that you start to feel better soon.
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| Snapshot
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2022-12-20
First class writing, Thomas.
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| NO NEW BREATH
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2022-12-14
A very affecting poem, Allen.
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| Square Foot of Ground
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2022-12-13
Wonderful miniature!
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| A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
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2022-12-09
As one gets older, one focuses more and more on who (and what) have been lost.
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| the Indians
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2022-12-08
Even now, white people are certain that they are the gods, and all others are savages.
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| forcefully experiencing
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2022-12-06
Not necessarily. It is best if you can realize that you have finished, and stop.
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| Rondeaux d'Amour
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2022-11-28
Hmm. Very peculiar.
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| Time, Real and Imaginary
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2022-11-21
Thank you! It's always such a pleasure to read a poem by Coleridge.
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| brain power
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2022-11-21
I'm not so sure. There are many brilliant people who are miserable, and many idiots who are quite content.
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| a morning
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2022-11-14
Well done!
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| the ancients
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2022-11-11
It depends on who you are and where you live. What if you're a native Nigerian or even a white American living in Mississippi?
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| CONTRADICTIONS
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2022-11-09
Yes, we can't know until the time comes, but we can hope that there is justice somewhere in the cosmos.
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| METAMORPHOSIS
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2022-11-03
A fine meditation, Allen. Personally, I see no distinction between the "living" and the "dead."
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| Ramblings 623
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2022-11-03
It's true. No matter where we go, we almost always are alone.
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| present
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2022-10-31
Heraclitus would agree.
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| Odes From Horace. - To Apollo. Book The First, Ode The Thirty-First.
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2022-10-31
'Twould seem that, at this juncture,
Such insipid dreck
Should have been banished
From the canon. What the heck?
Again, the fifty thousandth time
We have to hear
Of gurgling brooks and shepherds' hooks,
And cups of crimson wine, not beer.
Why smear the day with British verse,
So soft and foul with rot
That tongues and minds, repulsed, cry out,
“Is this all you have got?”
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| Ramblings 622
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2022-10-29
Give it all some time. Your life has drastically changed, but probably not for the worse.
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| A Gentle Autumn Day
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2022-10-28
Nicely done, Joe. It's good to hear from you again.
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| Money the perfect deceiver of values.
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2022-10-26
Unfair and unjustifiable, hierarchies are real. Humans seem unable to live without them.
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| Saturday Afternoons
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2022-10-25
First-class writing, Thomas.
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| Potage Andalouse
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2022-10-24
A lovely remembrance, Elle.
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| IMAGES IN THE MIRRORS
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2022-10-24
A fine meditation on alienation, Allen.
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| Devil's Tarantula
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2022-10-20
Thanks for the warning. Turks do seem to be a dangerous people. Just ask the Armenians and Kurds.
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| conundrum (4)
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2022-10-20
Answer to the first question: "spirit" is an illusion.
Answer to the second question: absolutely.
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| #1 MR SMITH CUTS HIS GRASS
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2022-10-18
Nicely done, Allen.
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| advance of the hermit of Chester (1066A.D.)
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2022-10-15
A fine history!
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| thinking out loud
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2022-10-13
1. When is the world not a crook's paradise?
2. This is not an era of progress. It is one of retrogression. I am useless nevertheless.
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| ears
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2022-10-12
True, but what can you do? Also, have you seen what the "exquisite professors and honorable gentlemen" are reading? After you have, you may not hold them in such high esteem.
By the way, it's ridiculous to claim that readers don't judge what they're reading. Everybody judges everything.
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| untitled
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2022-10-11
It's definitely a crucial choice.
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| THERE WERE FIREWORKS
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2022-10-10
I have the good fortune to be living with a woman who lit such fireworks for me 45 years ago. There were others before her. It occurred to me recently that I never think of them, and I don't care what happened to them.
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| The Surest Thing
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2022-10-08
Maybe your need grows greater because no one is around.
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| books
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2022-10-08
I say no. What's taught isn't always worth learning. Sometimes, it isn't even true.
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