tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87080589985995751752024-02-19T23:58:33.978-08:00Deanotationspoem a dayDeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288987227344290690noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-2060437711872468512014-07-13T12:39:00.000-07:002014-07-13T12:39:25.331-07:00O Let Us Get an Owlet of Our Own<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/>
<w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/>
<w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/>
<w:Word11KerningPairs/>
<w:CachedColBalance/>
</w:Compatibility>
<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><br />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="267">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="59" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">A tiny owl, that’s all it
is, an owlet,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">A tiny owl whose hoot’s a
tiny howlet.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Let’s get an owlet at an
owlet outlet!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">We’ll pay in cash. Be sure
to bring your wallet.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">One mustn’t owe an outlet
for an owlet!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">We’ll call it Paulette:
She’s our only owlet.</span></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-75072186432165444352013-12-29T10:42:00.000-08:002013-12-29T10:42:05.151-08:00Grand Entrancement<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:DocumentProperties>
<o:Version>12.00</o:Version>
</o:DocumentProperties>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:RelyOnVML/>
<o:AllowPNG/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]--><br />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:DoNotShowRevisions/>
<w:DoNotPrintRevisions/>
<w:DoNotShowMarkup/>
<w:DoNotShowComments/>
<w:DoNotShowInsertionsAndDeletions/>
<w:DoNotShowPropertyChanges/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/>
<w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/>
<w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/>
<w:Word11KerningPairs/>
<w:CachedColBalance/>
</w:Compatibility>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="267">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="59" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin-top:0in;
mso-para-margin-right:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;
mso-para-margin-left:0in;
line-height:115%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}
</style>
<![endif]--><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The entrances and exits</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">are religious rites. Once</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">the kitten was invited in,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">found food. Now, refused more
food,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">she begs to go out so that,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">a moment later, by entering,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">she can make food be there,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">and if the magic fails her</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">once, twice, ten times,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">such is her faith, she tries
again,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">and at last</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">there is food.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It isn’t the need to go out</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">or to come in. One must go
out</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">in order to come in, a magic
act</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">that makes food appear.</span></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-58497429767143445502012-07-18T06:35:00.001-07:002012-07-18T06:35:03.526-07:00A SELECTION OF DEAN’S RECENT SHORT POEMS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w:PunctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w:DoNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w:DontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/>
<w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/>
<w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/>
<w:Word11KerningPairs/>
<w:CachedColBalance/>
</w:Compatibility>
<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"
LatentStyleCount="267">
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Normal"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="heading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="9" QFormat="true" Name="heading 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 7"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 8"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" Name="toc 9"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="35" QFormat="true" Name="caption"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="10" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" Name="Default Paragraph Font"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="11" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtitle"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="22" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Strong"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="20" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="59" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Table Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Placeholder Text"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="1" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="No Spacing"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Revision"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="34" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="List Paragraph"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="29" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="30" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Quote"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 1"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 2"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 3"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 4"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 5"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="60" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="61" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="62" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Light Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="63" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="64" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Shading 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="65" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="66" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium List 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="67" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 1 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="68" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 2 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="69" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Medium Grid 3 Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="70" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Dark List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="71" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Shading Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="72" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful List Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="73" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" Name="Colorful Grid Accent 6"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="19" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="21" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Emphasis"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="31" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Subtle Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="32" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Intense Reference"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false"
UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/>
<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/>
</w:LatentStyles>
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>
<style>
/* Style Definitions */
table.MsoNormalTable
{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";
mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;
mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;
mso-style-noshow:yes;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-qformat:yes;
mso-style-parent:"";
mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
mso-para-margin:0in;
mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
Note: I continue to write a poem now and then. This is
probably unconstitutional, since I consider my poems to be of value, and I
think only the Government is supposed to put out pieces of paper imprinted with
significant images that are to be considered valuable. But my friends do their
best to keep my printing activity a secret, so I’m safe. However, with
the price of oil going so high, the fact that my poems are printed on highly
inflammable paper may create a demand for them, since fuels enter in where
poets fear to tread. I look forward to the day when my poems will be legal
tinder.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Smoking Afterwards</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The beast with two-back—O!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Carnivore Bad Breath</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Before you kiss an ocelot,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Be sure to have him floss a lot.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>A Lot of Ocelot</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A tawny ghost, more gas than mass,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Seen winding through wind-rippled grass--</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
With lots of spots, the ocelot</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Will seem to oscillate a lot. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
An otter ought to, but will not,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For outer spots he has not got,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And if he spots an ocelot,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The otter freezes on the spot.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Nearing a road, the ocelot</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Foresees a chicken in his pot</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And waits, his breath both sour and hot</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
(For ocelots don’t floss a lot)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Where silly chickens cross a lot,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For chickens are a vacant lot,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Foredoomed to fill an ocelot.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He, too, is doomed one day to rot,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Poached for his pelt in glade and grot.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Nearly extinct, the oscelot –</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
How sad! – becomes a fossil lot.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Aghast</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A young man with his head up his ass</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Was quite horribly troubled with gas,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And began to balloon!</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
As he rose toward the moon,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He was heard to cry, “This, too, shall pass!”</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Flushes</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Indecent</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
In-can descents.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Poetry</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Ink and essence,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
incandescence.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Complete</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Recumbent,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
we, come-bent,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
recombine.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
We caress,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
we chorus</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
our longing,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
in long vowels,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
co-sonant,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
convolute.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
We convulse,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
convalesce,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
weak, unbent,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
vowel-less,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
bowel-loose,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
unlonging,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
lapless,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
co-lapsed,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
elapsed, </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
placid,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
placed,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
interlaced.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Replete,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
we sleep.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Icles and Acles</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
You extend tender tentacles</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to tease me with ten tickles.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Your tentative test tickles</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Tighten my teeming testicles,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
extending my tense tackle</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
toward its holy tabernacle,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
as with my own tenacious tentacles,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I grapple you close, intent</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
on tenuous miracle.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Liberated Love</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They shack up, shedding</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the shackles</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of the shackless.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Rainy Night in Manhattan</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He pushes past the others</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and leaps into the only cab in sight,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
raising the hackles</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of the hackless.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Haikus From Last Winter</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Snowfall –</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
the sides of the road</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
huddle nearer.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Snowfall –</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
bundled neighbors – what’s their name? –</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
wave through clouds of breath.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Snowfall –</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
such dazzle from a sky</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
so gray</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Snow – the burden</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
of too much beauty cracks</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
our old pear tree.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Whiteness dull beneath</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Pewter sky until the sun</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
shows its true colors.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Feet crack condensed wet,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
but dry air rasps our throats.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Far sounds are clear.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Snow settles in curves.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Nothing remains pointed,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
even headlights dulled.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Squeal of car tires</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
spinning in the silent</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
silent snow</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Roar, squeal…silence…</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
roar, squeal…silence. SLAM…</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
crunch crunch crunch…silence.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
White flakes – not ice,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
not water. How is this done?</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Suspended breath?</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Snow drifts dazzling</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
in the sun. I walk on clouds.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Where’s my harp?</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Snow, more snow,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
our little houses warmed</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
by what we can burn.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Wood, coal, oil, gas –</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
sullen spies in snow country</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
sent by a distant sun.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Wood, coal, oil, laughter,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
each house an island of warmth,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
a buried seed.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Carefully stepping</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
where others have stepped before,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
wading through show drifts.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
after snowfall, blue sky</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
but on earth millions</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
of breath clouds.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Brrr!</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
We meet and kiss,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
exchanging clouds.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Too cold to risk</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
sweat or tears.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Be steady like the cold.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Sticky snow,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
long white leeches</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
cling to each branch.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
It’s cold out.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Merciful snow comes down</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
to thicken our roofs.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>True Clouds</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Clouds far above, brilliant,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
solid. When close around us,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
mere mist, disappointing.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
a truer closeness of tangible cloud</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
is the deep, settling swellings</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
of snow, turning the world to cloud.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Finally Clear Skies</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
The blizzard is over,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
bright blue sky. We won’t get lost</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
on our way to the mailbox, but…</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
where is the mailbox?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>A Lessoning</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
You rulers who secretly sneer,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
“The people? What is ‘the people’?” –</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
see how tiny a thing is</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
one snowflake.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Resolve Into Adieu</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
“What’s a little snow to me?</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
I’m from Minnesota.”</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
No, my body’s from Minnesota.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
I’m a bit of sunlight</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
frozen in my body, rippling through it</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
like the twinkle in an icicle,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
freeing myself from it as,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
drip by drip, I melt it.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Neville Chamberlain Sums Up Munich</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
I came,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
I saw,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
I concurred.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>If Only He’d Lain in his Chamber</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
That pathetic Prime Minister, Neville,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Hoped the Fuhrer was quite on the level,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
So he caved in at Munich,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Diplomatic, suave eunuch…</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
“Peace,” thought Hitler,”can go to the Devil!”</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Measure Me Assures</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Of old our poems were neater.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Where have they gone, those masters?</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Perhaps to greener pastures</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
They’ve gone to make their meter.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>A La Recherche de Kitty Perdu</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
The narrow, penetrating whine</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
of our cat, just hungry, but she seems to cry</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
“ALL IS LOST! ALL IS LOST!” Oh, Kitty, PURR,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
do!</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>…And the Weiner Is…</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Flash: Horny adolescent male</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
wins Oscar for Animated Shorts!</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Bye, Bay?</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Large dead areas in the Chesapeake Bay…</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Crappy dearth, Bay.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>And Never Sleeps: Napless</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Ancient statues of goddesses</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
lack genital hair. I suppose it suits</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
lunar Goddess, Diana/Artemis:</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
After all, the moon waxes.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Pun Gently</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Too much wit, too little matter</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
is soporific. Razzle Dazzle breaks down</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
anagrammatically into real deal and</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
ZZZZ…</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>An Enigma</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Ignorance, a form of the word “ignore.”</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Stupidity is a failure or inability</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
to pay attention. Pay no attention</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
to the causes, and medicate the symptoms</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
(and pay no attention to the results).</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
And since what we are thus failing to treat</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
is a deficit of attention, we become</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
more and more ignorant.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Sun Come, Wan Go</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
In the Southern sun they tango,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Then slake thirst with fresh-squeezed mango.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Winter—soon she sees her man go,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
then, far worse, her summer tan go.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>It’s Bad Luck…</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
to slap a fly</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
about to land on a porcupine.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>No man is an island…</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
or perhaps a lonely man</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
is a densely populated island.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Boredom</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Al Gore</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Galore.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Celebrity Roast…</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
selects a ham</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
for prime ribbing.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Haiku…NOT</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Reception—</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
on the brie, a fly…</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
briefly. [brie-fly]</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Democracy</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Sages say you are our own worst enemy.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Politicians say your government represents</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
you.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>The Cat</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
surrounds us, pure</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
periphery,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
purry,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
furry.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>The Sun’s Admiration,</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
even at this distance,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
is too fierce. </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
We receive it</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
cooled and reflected</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
as eye-twinkle, dew-twinkle,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
the flashes of a million puddles</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
in sunset-slanting rays</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
and the glitter of fresh snowflakes,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
in their first infusion of sunshine.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Even at night the sun admires us,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
hiding in the cool green eyes</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
of cats, adding more distance</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
than we choose to know.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Don’t “Honey” ME!</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Killer bees—</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
do their faceted eyes glare?</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Are they Hun-eyed?</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Cee?</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Why are the bees disappearing?</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Because in this age where Self-Esteem</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
is everybody’s honey,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
professors give only A’s.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Totally</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
I have ten toes,</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
like, Toe tally!</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>How Goth Is She?</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
A cadaver</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Could have her.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<b>Organic Punctuation</b></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
A colon is potential, promising possible excitement:</div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
A penis is the culmination, an exclamation point!</div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
After <i>words</i> it curls up, perhaps a question mark?</div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
I don't know what a rectum is, but surely our farts </div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">
punctuate the early morning hours.</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<b>Time is a Serious Subject (a palindrome)</b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
Emit no pun upon time.</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-91824849802517091002010-12-21T06:59:00.000-08:002010-12-21T06:59:39.546-08:00Why We're Here<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were designed by the wind, frustrated</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">with its inability to inflate a balloon.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were invented by dogs because after aeons</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of licking only each other, they yearned for love</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">without hairballs.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We evolved from birds, who wanted to be able</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to talk with their hands without being carried away.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were invented by cats to tend door knobs.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were invented by stones who wanted to reproduce</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">themselves, but could not set one stone</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">upon another.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were invented by the night, grown tired</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of having nothing to hide.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were invented by the flowers, sick and tired</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of color-blind bees who only wanted them</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for one thing.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were thought up by the fish, trying to imagine</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">dreaming with their eyes closed.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were invented by the snow, dreaming of hugging angels.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were invented by the fire to reflect it in eyes and cheeks, </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for every other creature, fearing it, could not admire it.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were invented by the sand to make fine distinctions.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were created by the sun when he discovered</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that, alone, he could light up only one side</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">of the earth at a time.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were created by the rain, which could not</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">spell its name in the sand.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The earth made us in hopes we would enable it</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to see where it's going.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were made by the ocean to package its</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">salty elixir and distribute it to high ground</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">beyond the reach of surf.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were made by mountains grown tired of crushing</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">everything they tried to embrace.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were made by the full moon because,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">though it could reflect endlessly,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">it could not smile.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were made by the trees, because they couldn't</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">hear themselves fall.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were made by the grass to graze with our eyes</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and gobble up the excess green.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were made by the cockroaches because their faith</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">forbids suicide.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by Dean Blehert</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">copyright (c) 2010 by Dean Blehert</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Posted by Pam Blehert</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-80148282985662405482010-07-06T05:19:00.000-07:002010-07-06T05:19:19.631-07:00Oldby Dean Blehert<br />
<br />
"Don't get old like me." (Grimacing<br />
to steady her shakey scrawl on<br />
the check.) "Not much choice,"<br />
I said. "Funny--I thought<br />
I'd have a lot of choices,<br />
but my mother and father are dead,<br />
all my family, all my friends<br />
are dead, and I'm..." (Hears<br />
her own voice, looks up,<br />
astonished, young) "...I'm still<br />
here--I'm 89--that's OLD! Not<br />
many people get to be 89.<br />
Why me? I don't understand<br />
why I'm still here! I keep thinking:<br />
I won't be here for THIS,<br />
I won't be here for THAT,<br />
but look at me, I'm<br />
still here! I don't understand<br />
why I'm still here." Shrinking back<br />
into herself, she says something<br />
about leaving it up to God, but<br />
that wasn't what she had to say.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-30027452764780471662010-06-30T06:06:00.001-07:002010-06-30T06:06:38.150-07:00Our ChildrenAlmost five years we've been married, <br />
but have no children. The oldest <br />
of the children we haven't had <br />
(a boy, I think) is nearly five, <br />
a good kid, tough, bright, cute, <br />
though already his tow-head darkens.<br />
Whoever had him instead of us, <br />
I'm sure he's loved and in good hands. <br />
The other two (a girl and a boy, <br />
I think) are also thriving. All feel<br />
tucked in among the toys, easy chairs<br />
and faces they have known forever.<br />
<br />
Later, perhaps, each will wonder <br />
if there is not a truer home <br />
than they know, a presence calling <br />
faintly in the hush of wind moving away<br />
through tall grass on the hillside, <br />
a sense of something just out of <br />
reach...which may have nothing to do <br />
with their being the children we never had<br />
<br />
We, too, are doing very well: <br />
My wife's smile never fails to charm me<br />
and I always say the cutest things. <br />
<br />
by Dean BlehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-33848462355869632782010-06-23T07:53:00.001-07:002010-06-23T07:53:51.765-07:00The MakersWe are the makers.<br />
When there is nothing left to say,<br />
we make something to say.<br />
When there is no language left<br />
to say it in, we make a language.<br />
When none will listen,<br />
we make them listen.<br />
When there is no one left to listen,<br />
we make listeners.<br />
<br />
by Dean BlehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-13623897022940900242010-06-23T07:31:00.001-07:002010-06-23T07:32:36.430-07:00How to Cheat NightmaresIn my dream, I left the airplane,<br />
toting two bags,<br />
stopped in a restaurant<br />
to talk to the woman who ran it<br />
(and seemed to know me), then,<br />
on the sidewalk, heading home,<br />
noticed my bags had vanished, but, <br />
knowing the ways of dream luggage,<br />
was not upset:<br />
"If I just keep walking<br />
as if it were here, it will reappear."<br />
And it did.<br />
<br />
by Dean BlehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-1837776170639197182010-06-18T09:39:00.001-07:002010-06-18T09:39:29.825-07:00InvisibleThe sun must imagine himself invisible,<br />
because no matter how hard he shines,<br />
no one ever looks right at him.<br />
<br />
Though you never seem to see me,<br />
I must be content if, in my light,<br />
you can see one another.<br />
<br />
by Dean BlehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-3011128869837710062010-06-15T05:17:00.000-07:002010-06-15T05:17:51.657-07:00Wrong signalShe gives me a friendly hug.<br />
I give her a more-than-friendly hug.<br />
She sheds me like a sweater in a warm room.<br />
<br />
by Dean Blehert<br />
(Posted by Pam Blehert -- this one made me laugh!)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-63287562755111608382010-06-12T05:33:00.000-07:002010-06-12T05:33:28.981-07:00Catnapping5 a.m. - quick! The cat is howling!<br />
Tie Pam to the mast AND plug her ears,<br />
lest she throttle the cat! Listen<br />
to that deep-throated yowl. The cat<br />
gives good tongue. She knows we are trying<br />
to assimilate her into our dreams.<br />
She WILL not be assimilated. We make her<br />
a song. She wails louder. We make her<br />
a siren. Louder. We make her...Oh,<br />
what's the use, I am awake - but<br />
I'll not give her satisfaction. I'll<br />
lie here with my eyes closed. After all,<br />
most people only pretend to be awake.<br />
Call it waking. Call this sleeping.<br />
<br />
by Dean blehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-71366526876958883842010-05-26T04:31:00.001-07:002010-05-26T04:31:19.889-07:00HaikuAfter much search I find<br />
the lost key in the lock<br />
where I left it.<br />
<br />
by Dean BlehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-82061177736906996822010-05-24T04:06:00.000-07:002010-05-24T04:06:50.219-07:00What rhymes with orange?Challenged by a fellow poet, here's a rhyming stanza Dean came up with off the cuff:<br />
<br />
Maid, sculpt your hair with orange gel<br />
For coif where lover or angel<br />
May, safe from cooties or mange dwell<br />
And loving fingers – O!—range well.<br />
<br />
by Dean Blehert<br />
<br />
(Not exactly a rhyme with just "orange", but pretty nice, nonetheless!)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-49622821356997850262010-05-12T04:51:00.001-07:002010-05-12T04:51:44.380-07:00One DayOne day in the middle of my life<br />
I realized that I knew nothing<br />
about living with a woman,<br />
having friends, making money,<br />
owning a house, and caring for carpets,<br />
plants, animals, and cars.<br />
<br />
What a relief to recognize<br />
all my vague fears as precise<br />
ignorances!<br />
<br />
What a joy to be rewarded<br />
for 37 years of knowing it all<br />
with the chance to learn something.<br />
<br />
by Dean BlehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-58700839708349488432010-04-23T05:57:00.001-07:002010-04-23T05:57:30.559-07:00UntitledRain. I stay inside<br />
where the rain can't touch me, but<br />
neither can the sky.<br />
<br />
by Dean BlehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-88957628333169871792010-04-20T06:53:00.000-07:002010-04-20T06:53:21.070-07:00Close Encounters of the Fourth CourseThe dessert tray, a shimmering alien civilization<br />
Of mirrored chocolate domes and creamy turrets<br />
And tessellated plazas, cherry-studded, with gardens<br />
of emerald kiwi, descends, hovers, whisks away,<br />
Hovers near again — I feel tractor beams<br />
Reaching out to me, probing, searching<br />
For intelligent life to pervade, and now,<br />
All purpose, all sense of proportion<br />
Vanished, I am being pulled in, closer...<br />
Closer — suddenly before my glazed eyes<br />
The pecan pie is about to speak to me,<br />
I know it...<br />
And that's all I remember.<br />
<br />
by Dean BlehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-11535514043356242222010-04-19T08:05:00.000-07:002010-04-19T08:05:02.278-07:00Faking itSometimes it's hard to know what to do.<br />
It's like losing your place in the music.<br />
<br />
The music doesn't stop:<br />
If you miss your entrance, <br />
you take your lumps in silence<br />
and join in where you can.<br />
<br />
"Could we please take it from the top?"<br />
you plead, but the music goes on,<br />
its only concession being<br />
to incorporate into itself<br />
<br />
(perhaps a tremulous violin<br />
counterpointed against sneering clarinet)<br />
the sub-theme of your pleading.<br />
<br />
by Dean BlehertUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-3144850409949864272010-04-16T06:24:00.001-07:002010-04-16T06:24:19.277-07:00Making Fun<p>He made fun of her for feeling sorry <br />For baby seals and other dumb helpless <br />Creatures. His mockery soon cured her <br />Of that feeling, which, it turned out, <br />Included her love for him.</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-18842590392667623532010-04-07T12:08:00.000-07:002010-04-07T12:08:25.270-07:00I miss having a woman in my bed.<br />
What a strange thing to miss. How is it<br />
that my bed, so simple, functional and complete,<br />
can shape for me the infinitely baroque<br />
complexities and irrelevancies<br />
of a woman's absence?<br />
<br />
by Dean Blehert<br />
Posted by Pam Blehert<br />
Comment: This is an example of how time (the great charlatan) can make liers of us. There were times when Dean and I were separated by travel necessity, but not now. Plenty of woman in his bed (in fact 50 <i>extra </i>lbs of woman!) But i like this poem. It's an example of the quirky way he looks at things. (Note: I'm posting to Dean's blog because he' so busy!)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-31501613674002024932010-03-29T06:36:00.001-07:002010-03-29T06:36:01.908-07:00Vision<p>Is brightness aware of brightness? <br />Without eyes I would see the shapes <br />of my absences.</p> <p> </p> <p>by Dean Blehert <br />(posted by Pam)</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-7802953911304728742010-03-23T06:43:00.001-07:002010-03-23T06:43:19.060-07:00More to the Dream<p>I dreamed I had something important to say. <br />Crickets woke me with their din. <br />I fell asleep again and dreamed <br />that humanity desperately needed to hear <br />what I had to say.  In the morning <br />birds broke, like pebbles <br />tossed in a pond, the surface <br />of my dream with their twitter. <br />Wide awake, I can think of nothing <br />to say, but it seems important <br />that I have something important <br />to say.  There must be more <br />to the dream.</p> <p>Dean Blehert <br />(posted by Pam)</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-77386366377371526132010-03-22T06:07:00.001-07:002010-03-22T06:07:19.782-07:00Good body<p>In the shower I notice what a good body I have: <br />responsive, smooth, elastic to the touch — <br />"Good body!" I say, patting its belly and <br />feeling it looking for a tail to wag.</p> <p>(poem by Dean, posted by Pam)</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-75499872920495592112010-03-20T05:50:00.001-07:002010-03-20T05:50:20.466-07:00Shades<p>How is it that fissure of morning brightness, <br />just there, where curtains don't quite meet, <br />can generate a hotel room full <br />of grey outlines, nooks, niches of wrinkled blankets-- <br />a shadowland?  As if a fraction of dawn <br />equals a full dusk, as if morning <br />has been husbanded, doled out, <br />one crack of dawn per room, don't be <br />greedy, day broken up into cubicles <br />of colorless form, looming hints of depth, <br />how efficient!  </p> <p>But why, then, outside, <br />such extravagance of sunlight? <br />There one mica-flaked square of concrete sidewalk <br />basks in glare enough to touch <br />with grey-brown intelligence the forms <br />of a thousand suites, the sweets <br />of a thousand forms, and there, <br />a glassy waste of shop windows <br />blasts the eyes with brilliance enough <br />to illuminate gently the texts <br />of all the yellowed classics ever fingered <br />in the mellow depths of reading rooms,</p> <p>enough to detach from grey dawn <br />with just the softest mottling hint of umber <br />a swell of shadowed nakedness <br />(were you with me), a billion nakednesses <br />in a billion waking rooms--one unreadable <br />window's waste of morning dazzle <br />could touch all these lives with promise,</p> <p>as once, when I reached to touch, lightly, <br />that dim fullness beside me, <br />my closed eyes spilling over with light.</p> <p>Dean Blehert <br />(posted by Pam)</p> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-17211337719676844652009-06-26T16:03:00.000-07:002009-06-26T16:04:21.015-07:00FOR HIS OWN GOODDear readers,<br /> <br />Something has come up: I'm going to be out of town AND off email (and the Internet) for the next few months (probably no more than 3 months). When I return, I'll probably shift to sending out WEEKLY, instead of daily mailings. I leave tomorrow, will not have time to answer responses to these poems for a few months! Note: This hiatus is GOOD news for me, not trouble, just tricky because it came up suddenly. I'm not going to jail or to a hospital. I'm going to be taking some courses, rather intensively. As the terminator says, I'll be back.<br /> <br />If, during that time, you change e-mail addresses, please send the changes to my usual email, dblehert@verizon.net. <br /><br />Here are a few bon voyage poems:<br /> <br /> <br />The dog crosses the road.<br />I say "Come back here!"<br />The dog doesn't seem to hear.<br />A car comes. NOW the dog<br />starts to cross back to me.<br />I yell, STAY!<br />The dog doesn't seem to hear.<br /> <br />The car halts for the dog,<br />who, eventually, toddles toward me,<br />then, sensing something is wrong,<br />stops just beyond my reach, head down,<br />eyes peering up at mine, then away,<br />beneath brows (tan against his black)<br />writhing with worry.<br /> <br />COME HERE! I say. The dog<br />doesn't seem to hear.<br />YOU COME HERE NOW! I scream.<br />The dog moves a squeamish step forward.<br />I lunge, catch his bright red collar and<br />(for his own good) swat his shoulder<br />hard...and again....<br /> <br />He ducks, cringes, looks up at me,<br />blinking, looks away. I feel bad.<br />I wonder if I should never have children.<br />Where did I go wrong?<br /> <br />[Note: Dogs are NOT defenseless against our onslaughts!]<br />_____________________<br /> <br />THE FUTILITY OF VIOLENCE<br /> <br />If I hit the dog in anger,<br />he cringes, striken, as if by plague<br />or poison. When forgiven,<br />he's my friend for life,<br />everything wagging at once...<br />but not more obedient.<br /> <br />I don't know what happens<br />when I hit the cat in anger:<br />She avoids me, gradually returns --<br />is that a resentful expression,<br />or has she always had that expression?<br />She gets even by not letting on,<br />and she snubs forgiveness,<br />turning away to lick herself.<br />_____________________<br /> <br />CAN ACTIONS BELIE BELIEF?<br /> <br />Relious beliefs solve a lack<br />of religious feelings, perceptions, certainties<br />and actions.<br /> <br />[Note: I suppose this poem is unfair, "belief" being so many things, but certainly one of the roles of "belief" is to provide a way to consider oneself religious in the absense of the other items.]<br />_____________________<br /> <br />DISTANCES MAY DECEIVE<br /> <br />A big mound of earth pops up before me<br />an arm's length from my face.<br />As I reach to touch it,<br />a tiny man on a tiny horse appears<br />between me and my mound,<br />and I discover I can reach for miles.<br />_____________________<br /> <br />ONE FOR ANY NEW YEAR'S EVE<br /> <br />Time to make our New Year's<br />dissolutions.<br />_____________________<br /> <br />STRANGER THAN WIFE EXPERIENCE<br /> <br />Happiness is waking up<br />beside a fascinating stranger<br />and it's my wife.<br />_____________________<br /> <br />AND ENUP SHALL BE PLENTY!<br /> <br />When I wake, the space beside me<br />is where you are or are not.<br />That's it,<br />in a nuptial.<br /> <br />[Note: The pun is on the phrase, "That's it in a nut shell"--from, of all places, Hamlet. A hamlet is a little ham, and there's a little ham in all of us--and way too much pork.]<br />___________________________<br /> <br />HOW WE DO GO ON<br /> <br />Don't worry about death.<br />We can communicate without bodies,<br />without words,<br />as follows:<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Dean Blehert<br />Blogs:<br />http://deanotations.blogspot.com (short poems)<br />http://dearreader08.blogspot.com (essays and longer poems)<br />New book (Deanotations, Volume 1) available at http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/deanotations-volume-one/4649669<br />WWW.BLEHERT.COMDeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288987227344290690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708058998599575175.post-54607082028635476442009-06-24T07:15:00.000-07:002009-06-24T07:17:19.829-07:00HELLO, ROSE!Communication as a solution to art<br />is watering a rose.<br /> <br />Art as a solution to communication<br />is dropping a cut rose<br />into a bucket of water.<br /> <br />[Note: Some will find this one difficult to understand. A simpler way to say it is that communication underlies art, not vice versa. Art does not resolve difficulties with communication. Communication resolves difficulties with art. For example, a writer with writer's block can unjam that block by improving his communication with himself and others and reviving his willingness to communicate. Trying to break through the block by forcing creativeness is far more complex and far less effective.<br /> <br />Writers, painters, dancers, actors -- all reach outwards, put something "out there" for others to receive and to which others can contribute. (Teaching an artist that he creates for him/herself alone is a great way to destroy an artist. But even someone who fancies he creates for himself is communicating, if only to himself, eager to see what he has to say to himself.) What, then, happens to the art of a person who is withholding himself from others? I imagine it becomes shallow or obscure or hideous: Shallow if he tries to say lovely things while holding back ugliness; obscure if he tries to hide from himself and others exactly what he is saying (art as encryption); hideous as an attempt to make his audience go away. Some of it may yet be striking, but he won't be able to continue it for long, because he feels he is doing something he shouldn't be doing.<br /> <br />It's true a man after an argument with his wife or lover, may get back in communication by sending her a poem, but only because it's a communication. Improving the art of the poem will not likely improve the outcome.<br /> <br />I'm sure you can think of many examples of both sides of this.<br /> <br />Over 40 years ago, I heard a talk where a speaker told an audience something about the importance of communication. This was on a college campus. A student in the audience stood up and started screaming at the top of his lungs, "You don't communicate with the motherfuckers!! You stand the motherfuckers up against the wall!!!" -- thrusting his arms out over his head as he yelled and jerking around as if he, himself, were being machine-gunned.<br /> <br />He had a vision. He was a campus hero who'd burned his draft card and was expecting to spend some time in jail. We seem to be living in his dark vision, since it is shared by those he would have stood against the wall and machine-gunned.<br /> <br />What lack of good communication can destroy, renewal of good communication can bring back to life.]<br />_____________________<br /> <br />Dean Blehert<br />Blogs:<br />http://deanotations.blogspot.com (short poems)<br />http://dearreader08.blogspot.com (essays and longer poems)<br />New book (Deanotations, Volume 1) available at http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/deanotations-volume-one/4649669<br />WWW.BLEHERT.COMDeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288987227344290690noreply@blogger.com0