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Silence of the morning
Every home holds its breath. Listen!
Hear the Earth turning

Dance like no one sees??
Don't live in shame! You must dance
Like you are adored

I'll never grovel
A man of means has standards
My cash begs for me

The epiphany
Celebrates the three magi
Who realized God

Seeking a vessel
A target for these feelings
Anyone will do

"Where feelings belong,"
He railed, spittle flying wild
"Is on the inside!"

I never add books to my "to be read" pile.

When I buy one, I add it to my Book Buffet shelf.
(Where there are no expectations of consuming everything)

Crumbling estate
Mouldering stories of yore
Waiting to be flipped

Contests for Speaker of the House that went 10 or more ballots have predicted 7 of the last 1 civil wars

Full of emptiness
An absence made manifest
A void shaped like you

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He stood immobile as they wheeled him through the yard. Scrap steel clanged under the sled that carried him to his station.In a few minutes he would be peeling engine blocks apart like so much tissue paper and getting paid under the table for it.

But not long ago he was Strongman and he had crushed diamonds into something incredible, then ground it into so much dust between his hands. His strength was immeasurable, but his control was limited. When concrete crumbled at his lighted touch, how could he possibly live in this delicate world. How could the invincible man possibly die?

Ain't going back home
Where the devil waits, oh no
Make Scratch come to me

White birch bark dissolves
Into riverside foggy
Eddy air and creek

It is thirty five
He decides his own speed limit
No matter the signs

Waking from deep sleep
Hale, hearty but still groggy
Vacation is over

Cutting all clutter
I sought the truth without frills
And found nothing left

He asks self-conscious,
"Is it normal?" No, but then
Does it matter? No

At last the storm broke
I laughed at sanity lost
His eyes shone triumph

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Telling, retelling
The same joke and guffawing
I could not escape

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Having heard enough
I turned away from this bore
But he kept my pace

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