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Louis’s Numbers

ERIC CHAET photo by Procsilas Moscas Louis has written all the numbers  out 1, 2, 3…, all the way to 1600 & past in tall columns, on a giant sheet of

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Clear Goal

ERIC CHAET photo by Christian Gidlöf What a relief always to know what you’re trying to accomplish—whereas I have only a nebulous goal most of the time& inclinations to struggle to

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To The Retiring Pope

ERIC CHAET photo by Ramac Benedict, may your remaining days be relatively painless with relatively little discomfort— may your memories be mainly comforting, rather than tormenting— may those around you be

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Games & Branches

ERIC CHAET I live among those who play games & imagine that the games are what the games represent— winners & losers of games speeding past graveyards burning up the

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The Birth of Road Rage

JOHN BENNETT (re-printed from The Birth of Road Rage — find the book here) This is just a reminder: all your daily discomforts that

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The McCarthy Era

ERIC CHAET “Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WIS)” When I was a boy, & unaware of it American communists & those

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Dragon

ERIC CHAET Picture: Ming Dynasty (http://www.drben.net) (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) A man is fighting a dragon could be a woman fighting the

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Frankenstein Mythology

JOHN BENNETT (re-printed from The Birth of Road Rage — find the book here) The subconscious is no moon walk. The subconscious is Columbus

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Most Deeds Are Small

ERIC CHAET Good Samaritan (russian icon) (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) Most deeds are small & no

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Achievement

ERIC CHAET Yahts in the Vrboska on the island of Hvar, by Joakim Westerlund (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So Called Poems) If, before I die, I should gain great

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