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Come, pour me a glass of that wonderful stuff that once is begun is not ever enough; and under whose influence we learn to bluff, imagining ourselves immortal and tough. Come, pour me a round of ambrosial brew and join me in raising a glassful or two. For soon comes the morning, when payment comes…
Your hair is gray and thinning, Jack! Your prime is gone and won’t come back. The cure for everything you lack? Absolvo-Meal, the perfect snack! Young whippersnappers run the show, and no one cares how much you know. When your past actions plague you so, Absolvo-Meal’s the way to go! Who needs responsibility? Who wants…
It took a while, but I got fed up with your pretentious act: imagining each night to be some midnight runaway, a tender soul destined to be a vagabond of the western world. Did you want me to hold back the night so all your vain, precocious dreams had time to bloom and feed you…
They say you are inanimate, but I believe they lie. The world is made of tiny stuff that never quite stands still; and as your presence here suggests, this world is where you’re from. They say you have no feelings, but just who are they to know? Each sound creates endless vibrations that may never…
The short grass under the spreading live oak is mostly dead – a dappled green stretch of dirt that seems to soak up the shadows cast from the tree limbs just starting to burst with new growth this spring. In this shade, gray squirrels and red-winged blackbirds, bluejays and golden finches, too, flit quickly to…
If thinking a thing made it so, what’s real or not don’t matter much; and what you get solely depends on what you tend to dwell upon. Why think in black and white, and small? In case a jealous god might find your dream, see red and underneath a too cruel wheel crush and throw…