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A Winston Churchill quote I ran across
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
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Qotd
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person
-Ethel Mumford
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The Lady and the River
I had a dream last night.
I stood by the river and watched a lady swimming.
I called to her to come to me,
But she called back,
"Palmer, Palmer! How can I come back?
I, your Guyon, am by Phaedria's frigot ytossed!"
But it was not Phaedria and her little boat carrying her away,
But the river, and yet not the river.
For the lady in the river could swim to ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Thanks for the Input
Sign up for livej... I'm just kidding.
Uhhh ... I'll only say it involved bell bottoms and the colour green.
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The Empty House
As a means of catharsis, I have been writing poetry again after years of not doing so. This poem is still a little rusty, but I think not bad, given the hiatus.
Clink of keys, and creak open the door
Into a soup of salty, heavy air.
Hot, steaming light through windows
Casts a mocking grey about the room
All stark, all heavy, all dense.
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Which one am I?
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato -
Writer's Block: Teen Time Machine
None. I wouldn't want to be a teenager all over again; not in this era or any other. -
Writer's Block: Last Meal
Something delicious. Wouldn't it suck to have to send your last meal back because it was undercooked or something?