I have only so many days.
Every day spent feeling sorry for myself
is wasted.


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POOR DOGS

DAFFODIL

AN OLD MAN

DUMB

Walking along, I see a guy, probably tough, hit the girl he is with. I yell at him to stop. He smirks and call me a faggot. I yell that I will call the police and make a point of noticing his license plate number, which I promptly forget. But I think he noticed because he shut up.
I walked a few hundred yards further and a guy, passing me on the street, offers me a high five, which I return.
He could not have seen what transpired.
There are circles within circles.


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GREAT MINDS

COOL MORNING

Cool morning.
When the heat comes later,
Will I remember?


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RED DRAGONFLIES

Do the red dragonflies
Also see themselves reflected
In the blue water ?


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FOOTPRINTS

On a hot summer afternoon
I follow my wife's disappearing footprints
To the pool.


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WHY NOT?

Work hard
Live large
Dream big




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SMILE)

Chasing her kitten,
The young girl's quick smile
Is faster.


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ANARCHY

Anarchy, at its appearance at the end of the nineteenth century, bears a striking resemblance to the terrorists of the end of the twentieth.
There are more than a few parallels between that time and now:
The Speaker of the House, Thomas Reed, and his fight against the "silent quorum".
In 1895, when E. L. Godkin, editor of The Nation, said that the U. S. "finds itself in possession of enormous power and is eager ro use it.....and is therefore constantly on the brink of some frightful catastrophe. "
Replace Democrat with Republican and you might as well replace 1895 with 2010.



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CRICKET

Cricket on the windshield;
Doing better than I would,
Under the circumstances.


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WHAT IS DREAMING?

What is dreaming?
Most people might say that who we are, really, is the person who is awake and that when we sleep, we are simply a shadow of our wakened self, merely resting and preparing for consciousness. There is little doubt that, awake, and only awake, we reach our highest potential while sleep remains a hazy, necessary inconvenience.
Flip it around, though, and consider, for a moment the possibility that sleep and the dream state presents us with our best opportunity to realize most fully the enormous capabilities of our minds and imaginations. We can be whomever we want, go wherever we want, experience the universe unconstrained.
The question: "why do we need sleep?" then might become: "why do we need bodies?"
To provide a sanctuary for our dreaming self.
This explains why we sleep and have always slept, in spite of the obvious dangers; we sleep because only then are we truely alive.
The waking state exists to feed and protect the temple of the superconscious.



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TASTY