| a balance of profits and costs
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2025-03-31
Many people in the United States have come to believe this.
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| Angles
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2025-03-26
Very nice.
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| Will It Swirl, Will I See It Dance?
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2025-03-26
A fine meditation.
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| A PLACE OF TRIAGE
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2025-03-25
Something to hope for.
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| The Party
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2025-03-24
There's an appealing starkness to this.
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| Rain on Red Earth
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2025-03-22
This is wonderfully descriptive. You put me there.
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| Casse-toi pas la tęte, Issy
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2025-03-22
I can imagine. Congratulations.
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| Oh Boy
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2025-03-22
When you're done, you'll tell yourself that you had no reason to be so worried.
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| Sonnet II*
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2025-03-17
A bit chewy, but worth the effort. The Elizabethans were, without question, the greatest English language poets ever.
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| Reflections IV
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2025-03-15
No one should tell you to move past such misfortunes, but it's amazing and very enjoyable to know that you've been able to come to grips with them.
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| Reflections III
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2025-03-15
Agreed.
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| Happy Ending!
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2025-03-12
Wonderful!
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| A Bit Perplexing
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2025-03-09
How peculiar. You have to wonder.
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| Reflections II
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2025-03-09
An interesting meditation. I wonder how different your life now would seem if your childhood had progressed in the opposite fashion.
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| Deadbeats
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2025-03-05
Did I exclude the U.S. from criticism?
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| Afterlife
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2025-03-03
Great finish!
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| artificiAlly intellIgent
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2025-03-03
Not so different from the creatures who programmed it, eh?
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| Count That Day Lost
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2025-03-03
Interesting rhyme pattern. Well done.
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| No Worries
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2025-03-01
Independence is a thing to be cherished, not willingly surrendered.
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| Lesson 64
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2025-02-27
Very nice.
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| Claustrophobic Monochromy
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2025-02-27
Stark and hard, this poem feels more quarried than written. Nicely done!
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| A Thorough Cat
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2025-02-27
Well done.
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| We, The People
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2025-02-25
To the thunderous applause of the planet's other inhabitants.
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| Lesson 60
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2025-02-24
Very nice, almost like a Chinese ink painting.
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| Lucy’s Song
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2025-02-24
An odd poem. Most of it flows nicely, but the last four lines are very clumsy.
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| IN THE END GOD WAS KIND TO HER
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2025-02-20
There's a lot churning here. I applaud your effort.
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| Quite by Chance
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2025-02-17
Well done!
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| The Idiom of Shells & Eddies
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2025-02-10
This poem is Whitmanesque. I mean that as a compliment.
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| FALLING LIGHT
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2025-02-10
End rhymes, interior rhymes, vigorous, colorful language throughout. What fun!
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| For You and For Me
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2025-02-08
As the old saying ought to go, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it smart."
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| KNIFE CRIME
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2025-01-22
Two points: if we execute someone, we also become murderers, and the death penalty isn't a deterrent because most killers aren't thinking rationally.
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| Post-Impressionism
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2025-01-20
Given the choice of spending an hour looking at Arthur Dove's fine paintings or reading light verse, I'd opt for the former.
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| THE TREE STANDS
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2025-01-17
Stark and effective; great job, Allen.
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| a grasp away
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2025-01-10
Nicely done.
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| [this bird has flown]
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2025-01-01
Normally, villanelles seem very forced and stilted to me. This one is excellent. Great work, Thomas.
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| looking glass
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2025-01-01
In a sense, it does.
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| Another Year
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2024-12-31
My fingers are crossed.
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| New Year
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2024-12-30
Very nice.
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| fluid mosaic
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2024-12-30
Agreed.
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| Jimmy Carter
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2024-12-30
Very nice.
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| [i fall mute before]
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2024-12-28
It's good to hear from you again, Thomas.
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| K Y R E U S - w h o .. a r e ... y o u ?
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2024-12-23
And it would supply an array of irreconcilable answers.
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| To a Poet Breaking Silence
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2024-12-23
Breathtakingly turgid.
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| Christmas Eve
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2024-12-23
A delightful, delicate poem.
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| NO LONGER A PLEASURE
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2024-12-18
A hilariously awful tale. I've encountered most of these affronts both as a consumer and as the beaten-down servant who works in one of these places four days a week. We do not suffer evangelists of any sort here, as property rights are absolute. Store managers run them off, except for the Salvation Army's ubiquitous bell ringers.
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| DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?
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2024-12-12
Cornered! There's nothing you can do but wait for your transgression to slip into the past. Very nice cautionary tale, Allen.
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| E L E V A T O R ... P I T C H
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2024-12-10
Difficult work, to be sure.
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| Lesson 57
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2024-12-03
True enough.
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| BULLDOZED AND GROUND TO DUST
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2024-11-29
It's terrible. The place you were eager to leave won't leave you.
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| Before Bob Dylan Stepped In And Took Over
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2024-11-26
Chat GPT: nice enough guy, not much of a dancer.
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from USA