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National Security

    National Security

JOHN BENNETT (originally sent to Bennett’s email list, to which he daily sends ‘short jabs’, poems, and his signature ‘Shards’) To break free even for a few minutes each day

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I Was Born Weak

    I Was Born Weak

ERIC CHAET (originally posted at 100 Peculiarly Useful So-Called Poems) I was born weak. My parents were ill-matched, unhappy, poor ill-prepared for the challenges of their time & place they had

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Trying to Get Original

    Trying to Get Original

JOHN BENNETT (originally sent out to Bennett’s email list) He was trying to get original he put his left shoe on his right foot & his right one on the

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Ways To Get Beer Money

    Ways To Get Beer Money

JOHN BENNETT (poem originally sent to Bennett’s email list) Sometimes I miss the old days when I hustled college kids in bars to a race on the track for beer

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Children of the Devices

    Children of the Devices

JOHN BENNETT (originally sent out to Bennett’s email list) There they sit, plugged in or snatching cues from the atmosphere,

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Glass Made of Diamonds

    Glass Made of Diamonds

JOHN BENNETT (originally sent out to Bennett’s email Shard list) Spring is here and business is picking up. I put

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Barbarella in the Old Folks Home

    Barbarella in the Old Folks Home

JOHN BENNETT (originally sent out to Bennett’s email list) I watched a French movie last night, streamed it on Netflix

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To the Common Housefly, Goodbye

    To the Common Housefly, Goodbye

HUBERT HUMDINGER   To the housefly who flew a rectangle over my head, buzzed in and out of the beam

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Crazy Wisdom: Chøgyam Trungpa was a Buddhist bad boy

    Crazy Wisdom: Chøgyam Trungpa was a Buddhist bad boy

JOHN BENNETT (this Shard originally sent out to Bennett’s email list) Chøgyam Trungpa was a Buddhist bad boy into crazy

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Always

    Always

DOUG DRAIME (re-posted from Speed of Light with permission from the author) Before there was anything, there had to be everything. Before there was everything, there had to be always. Before there

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