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JustDaniel
post Jul 15 14, 04:43
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hookers
tend to knitting
spending time with sweaters;
they keep a person warm on long
cold nights


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Larry
post Jul 15 14, 10:23
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coal's nice
for your furnace
but what kind should I use?
my choices are anthracite or
lignite


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post Jul 15 14, 10:59
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ignite
blue touch paper
then stand well back unless
you want singed eyebrows and tressed locks :
fire works !

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post Jul 16 14, 13:27
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fine work
by a sculptor
transforms a breathless block
into a seething, pulsating
life form


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post Jul 16 14, 14:30
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lie, or
dissemble or
even tell naked truth
no one knows difference now'days :
spinning

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JustDaniel
post Jul 16 14, 17:15
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spineless
spinning of facts
divests truth of meaning
and leaves real communication
no chance


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post Jul 16 14, 18:10
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nacho
and melted cheese
go down my throat a treat
while enchiladas follow on
down south

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post Jul 17 14, 11:59
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down south
things go slower
and conversations take
considerably longer to
digest


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post Jul 17 14, 15:40
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digest
some shrimp creole
with a cornbread muffin
and you will put a smile on your
stomach


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post Jul 17 14, 17:04
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stomach
all you can eat
and then quite a bit more
for food is free to end user
this time

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post Jul 17 14, 23:40
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the stein
will hold a pint
if you're in Germany
but pints in England hold twenty
ounces


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post Jul 18 14, 02:02
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onesies -
bane of mankind
used to go two by two
in God's over-arking purpose
Noah

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post Jul 18 14, 05:58
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know a
pitched ark-builder
whose prophets are above
water... not to mention the ground
flooded?


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post Jul 18 14, 13:21
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floated
menagerie
held more than two of each
or else the chosen ones would have
all starved


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post Jul 18 14, 14:37
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starving
is not fasting
but it is much slower;
without water one could lose weight
in vein


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post Jul 21 14, 02:27
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intra-
veinous drip feed
secures one's life sometimes
when all else fails to nourish one :
drip drip ....

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post Jul 21 14, 12:38
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drip strips
in the open
not caring that others
see his strange, ludicrous private
display


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post Jul 21 14, 16:50
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his play
is x-rated
filled with unwelcome lines
and the plot will only reveal
old junk


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JustDaniel
post Jul 21 14, 17:21
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old bunk
is in danger
of dropping its sleeper
atop the unsuspecting one
below


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post Jul 22 14, 05:26
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bellow
of frustration
why oh why can't men be
as sensible and down-to-earth
as gals ?

Alan


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