tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66460915319581626152024-03-13T12:31:10.731-07:00Wings of VictoryVictoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-17743953114281089642019-12-31T11:49:00.002-08:002019-12-31T11:49:44.877-08:00Bad dreams become horror stories<br />
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I had a really weird dream that a very old version of me died...<br />
I saw myself laying naked and skeletal, unmoving.<br />
I looked to be about 85 years old, maybe older<br />
Grey hair, wrinkled sagging face.<br />
Somehow my spirit was outside of myself but yet I was able to feel and see and move.<br />
I even smelled the decay đŠđ¤˘<br />
I consumed my old frail body like a cannibal, ripping away at its flesh- until there was nothing left<br />
Then the front door to my house pushed open, and a newborn baby me came crawling in.<br />
I immediately grabbed it and held it under me, while I sat upright, on all fours<br />
I started growling animalistically, snarling and gnashing my teeth<br />
I sensed there was danger in the very near to us approaching.<br />
I was ready to annihilate, whatever pushed thru that door next.<br />
Instinct told me everything I needed to know.<br />
I felt in my bones, my next direction and where I need to go<br />
This was my new spirit, I needed to protect it with every ounce of my life<br />
I needed to embrace it and nurture it and would have unleashed pure WRATH for whoever tried to harm it next.Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-15156053564447034432019-01-14T21:04:00.002-08:002019-01-14T21:04:24.218-08:00In my mind is a rolodex of scents yearning to blend, textures & shades wanting to smash together in unity<br />
Dreams and memories wanting their recreation, poignant moments - forever burned.... Each begging fearlessly for a chance to be showcased,<br />
Whirling around in your mind like a deranged carousel.<br />
Non stop from morning till night your eyes twitch -then begins your top lip<br />
Incessantly going as the brain never stops thinking, believing, creating, dreaming of ways to fill the life canvas<br />
<br />Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-25352630079142542112018-11-19T06:54:00.002-08:002018-11-19T06:58:50.115-08:00Dark Fluids <br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But my laugh is wide and loud </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Parasitic flesh wears thin and bursts </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when the prey holds inner realms </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps, tread carefully next time, my
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gently, lightly, softly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For I've already predicted
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Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-90753166334558433162018-11-13T12:19:00.003-08:002019-03-28T07:19:33.181-07:00Serpent crawl<br />
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Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-75971211722274785322017-11-27T12:11:00.000-08:002020-05-21T22:34:25.032-07:00The Invalid <br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u>The Invalid</u> - <span style="font-family: "calibri";">(Another musing non-poem non-story by Victory</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A frail form lay beneath a swirl of electrical currents</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It had translucent skin, freckled with open lesions </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It laid there limp, barely fluttering its pale gray eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I took it upon myself to bring it home to try and nourish it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Dragging it by its weakened limbs, itâs whimpering from an
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âAlmost there!â I shouted back, while launching the body
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Formed from warm milk mixed with ginger and raw honey </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But its delicate lips were wounded by my tarnished spoon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Soaking muslin bandages in witch-hazel and rosewater </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I returned to find it sitting upright in bed, smiling at
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âFor what causes you such happiness, do you not acknowledge
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black millipedes, scurrying quickly to escape </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I called from the window to my Corvid familiar, to come
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The being watched with a smirk upon its face, gesturing
towards a notebook and pen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âIâm sorry about the messâ it wrote. âItâs been a while
since I tried to speakâ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The great black Corvid hesitated his meal and observed this
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I laid the being back down on the bed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I wrapped the sterile bandages around its skin, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The flesh began to boil and sizzle, as if the cloth was
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The being screamed in agony as I ripped the cloths from its
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The corvid fluttered loudly about the room, clearly anxious </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âYOU ARE MUCH TOO DELICATE TO SAVE.â I screeched, throwing
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>âBlood, I need bloodâ
it scribbled furiously, fresh blisters bursting onto the page. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I procured another concoction </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A tiny slash on my forearm, enough blood to fill a small
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I returned to find it embracing my Corvid </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">They seemed to have a voiceless understanding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It snatched the cup from my hands, slurping loudly and
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The stench of a thousand corpses filled my chamber </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In astonishment I watched as all its abrasions restored </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Its weakened frail limbs became firm tanned taut muscles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Milky gray eyes became green crystals </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It blinked at me with such amazing clarity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The crow now rested on its shoulder, squawking commands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I stepped forward and fell right to my knees </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I looked at my suddenly weakened pale limbs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Distrust, pain and anger flushed through me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âHow dare you?â I hissed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The being carried me over to my bed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">One last note it wrote â </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âYou should have left me in the voidâ</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">by Tama Janowitz </span></strong></div>
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Must have more. Need more now. Send help soon. I am not sure I will survive without more from this author immediately. I need it and I cannot go on without...more!!. </div>
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<br />Please, tell me that her other works are congruent with this one. Because this is BRILLIANCE! Pure sheer brilliance. I laughed hysterically, but it was more like scream laughing, it was seriously that funny. And it felt good to laugh that deep into my soul. I suggest you go purchase the movie as well, they are both amazing, and different yet similar. </div>
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<br />I relate to Eleanor so hard, we share the same awkward clumsy eccentric social anxiety ridden traits. Please tell me there is more, you can not just simply take this away from me, I want to read it for the rest of my life. Eleanor is my NEW spirit animal. </div>
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I forced myself to set the book down every chapter, snapping the book shut. <br />Can't I still carry it around with me, pretending I am still reading it? *wails*<br />This moved swiftly upward my list into my top 5 favorites of all times. If you are looking for one clear concise story, move right along nothing to see here. This is more then an ordinary front to back story, this is an accumulation of eccentric artistic souls from the 80s wave in NYC. </div>
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BUUUUUUUUUUT-<br />If you love Brett Easton Ellis as much as I do, you will love her. I am not quite sure what makes them so strikingly similar, their knack for hilarious story telling when it is only a "day in the life of" type of book that focuses on location and character studies. Or, their HILARIOUS dry wit, filled to the brim with delicious sarcasm and satire. Maybe it is their ability to dive straight into the trash and nitty gritty without appearing to lose their prestige. </div>
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<br />They both need to produce more novels, similar to these fanatical stories. I mean otherwise I will wither up and die... we don't want that riiight!? </div>
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The day had been hot and dusty, the sky a wide bowl of blue overhead, when Johnny Fahey walked into the canyon. His parched lips parted in surprise at the sudden sweet taste of water in the air. Along the high walls of the canyon, the wind whistled in the deepening crevasses and scattered drifts of pink sandstone. Johnny smiled and then he sighed, his exhalation a dry puff.<br />
Heâd walked much of that day and the day before, always on the lookout for the mining camp, the lonely settler, and the small towns with their weddings and wakes. Johnny Fahey had left home many years since, left the green of his own country to wander across the sun-bleached West, the dry flat roads of the plains, and the dark rugged mountains. But no matter where he traveled, stranger though he was, he was never at a loss for words, for he needed none. The music of his fiddle spoke for him, and it was welcomed wherever he went. Doors opened at its sound, a place was made by a campfire, and food and drink appeared. It was a free life, one that chased forward like the sprinkle of notes, each connected for an instant but not remaining.<br />
In a patch of grass, Johnny sat down to rest in the shade. He leaned his back companionably against the rocks and took off his hat. The wind played through his damp blond hair and cooled his forehead. At thirty-odd years, Johnny had the face of a child with china-blue eyes and an easy smile. His cheeks had reddened beneath the sunâs glare, but the skin of his forehead, protected by his hat, was white, and no lines creased the smooth brow beneath the straight fine hair.<br />
He took from his pack a small canteen, shaking it first to hear the splash of its contents. Not much left, came the echoing reply. He opened its lid and drained the last few sips of water. The canyon would provide more. If there was grass, there must be a spring or a stream, he reasoned, somewhere in the heart of the canyon. Johnny closed his eyes and rested, feeling his limbs sink into the yielding grass. It was peaceful after a dayâs walk.<br />
But he didnât rest long. The wind that tugged at his hair brought with it sounds.<br />
Johnny opened his eyes and cocked his head to the wind. There it was againâa sharp shrill call. A bark, he guessed, imagining the coyotes taking their pleasure like himself in the unexpected grass. No, he thought, uncertain now as the wind brought the sound closer. Not a bark, but the harsh cawing of crows, their raucous voices rising from the hidden basin of the canyon.<br />
Johnny stood up and, shouldering his pack and fiddle, walked deeper into the canyon. The road twisted and turned through the high-walled corridors until at last the canyon opened into a wide grassy field. Spread across the field were crows, fanning their black wings over the grass. He stopped, awed at the sight of so many, their necks thrown back as they called to one another. The swirling flocks settled themselves uneasily, stalking through the long grass, their heads reared to catch the sunlight. And with a common cry, they shook their feathers, beaks breaking and limbs stretching until they had shaped themselves into the semblance of human form. Now standing before him were men and women striding over the green, their wings transformed into cloaks of black silk and velvet.<br />
And among them was one who caught Johnnyâs gaze. Her face was moon-white in the night sweep of her long hair. Across her forehead the black brows arched over eyes of glittering jet, and her pouting lips were stained mulberry. A black velvet ribbon fluttered at her white throat. The black cloak was draped over her rounded shoulders that perched above small breasts and a slender waist. As Johnny Fahey gazed at her, music burst in his head into a loud and joyous peal, the reels tripping over the stately waltzes, the fast jigs into the slow aires; and the more the music tumbled, the more his heart felt driven by the girl with black eyes and the moon-white skin. He had no fear of the strange assembly, for the music coursing in his veins had chased it out, and, without another thought, he walked into the green field where the crows stood arguing in the rough shouts of human speech.<br />
âThe King must name his successor!â cried a man whose dusty black cloak carried a border of gray diamonds. âBefore it is too late!â<br />
âHe has a daughter!â cried out a woman, her hands curled tightly around the billowing folds of a rebellious cape.<br />
âBut she must have a mate! The law requires it. And she refuses!â<br />
âDo you blame her?â a younger woman cackled to her companion. âNot one among them would I choose if it were up to me.â<br />
âIt isnât up to you anyway,â the second snipped in return. âBut who would you pick?â<br />
âThe one with the loudest voice, who else? To be heard over this!â the companion answered, shaking the folds of her light cape.<br />
âRilka has to choose among us!â came a new chorus. âShe must marry! There must be a new King crowned before the end of the season.â<br />
Johnny felt the earth tremble through his feet as he approached the court of crows. The whistled wind was hushed beneath their loud cries, and the crickets were silent between the rocks. Johnny bowed his head, the sounds of their rising arguments clashing in his ears. They did not listen to each other, but each voice shouted more loudly until they merged into a single cacophony of sound.<br />
The crows parted at Johnnyâs approach, some turning astonished faces at his unexpected presence, but never stopping in their cries. It wasnât until Johnny stood before the girl with the white skin and the black hair that the violent arguments subsided into grumbles and then at last into an uneasy silence. The girl stared at him with curiosity, her head tilted to one side as the glittering eyes fastened on his face. A smile crooked the edges her mouth, and the arched brows drew together in a challenge.<br />
âWho are you?â she asked, voice sharp as a scythe.<br />
âNo one as grand as you,â he answered softly.<br />
She lifted her chin proudly, the sweep of black hair flowing over the curve of her back. Opals sparkled in her earlobes like tiny stars, and around her waist she wore a belt of turquoise and fresh water pearls.<br />
âWhat are you?â she demanded, shoulders hunched and face thrust forward.<br />
âA musician,â he said, arms resting at his sides.<br />
The cloaks of the crows fluttered in the rising wind with a dry chaffing noise.<br />
âPlay for us,â she ordered.<br />
âRilka, weâve no time for this!â a man barked. Johnny Fahey turned to the man, hearing immediately the authority in this voice. A singular voice after so much discord. The man was old, the plumage of his cloak speckled at the breast and dull and ragged along the hem. But circling his forehead was a narrow crown of silver, set with turquoise. There was still power in his carriage, the heavy body leaning over his hips, his shoulders arched back. In one hand he held a scepter made from a fresh stalk of corn that gleamed as bright as newly minted gold. Johnny had no doubt but this was the King of Crows. He looked back at the girl called Rilka, and the music in his heart stumbled as he realized that the girl with moon-white skin and black hair was the Kingâs daughter. No chance for you, the sad chords played, no chance this haughty creature could be charmed by the fiddleâs song.<br />
âI want to hear it, Father,â the girl demanded, âif only to hear something other than their bickering,â and she tossed her head toward the line of men who stood glowering at the quiet figure of Johnny Fahey.<br />
The King rolled his eyes to the blue bowl sky.<br />
âSpoiled bitch,â came a nasty whisper followed by snickering.<br />
âPlay then!â the King roared, turning on the restless court to silence them.<br />
Rilka lowered her face, the shadow of her hair on her cheek not quite hiding the angry blush. Johnny winced seeing how the insult cut her pride to the quick. But he took out his fiddle and tucked it under his chin. He rested the bow over the strings and waited a moment more to hear what the wind would bring him. A tune came from listening, knowing what was already playing in the hearts of those gathered. He thought he could well guess at the tunes a crow might wish â something wild, with the harsh rasps of the double-stops. Then Rilka lifted her face, and he saw in the dark eyes an unexpected hint of longing, of gentleness.<br />
The soft whisper of her sigh touched him, and without intending to, he lowered his fiddle again and began to sing slowly in a clear tenor voice.<br />
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I met a fairy woman<br /> At the riverâs eddy.<br /> And I asked her<br /> Would anything unlock love?<br /> She said to me in whispered words,<br /> When it enters the heart<br /> It will never be released.</blockquote>
There followed a silence, filled only with the rise and hollow of the wind in the grass. Johnny Fahey heard the slow beat of his filled heart. Abruptly he put the fiddle beneath his chin again and played a reel as fast as his song had been slow. He might gain her, the notes sang, but how could he keep her? He might lose her now, but she would be forever in his thoughts. Amber rosin smoked over the strings and the white hairs of his bow broke like the strands of a clinging web. He drove the tune, as if to empty the sight of her face from his heart, and yet as he finished the last notes he looked up and her glittering eyes snared him.<br />
âTeach me to do that!â she demanded.<br />
Johnny gave a weary smile. âTo play the fiddle?â he asked. âItâs not that easily done.â<br />
âNo, not the fiddle,â she answered shaking her head, her black hair shimmering blue in the sunlight. âTeach me to sing.â<br />
The King, silent until now, threw back his head and roared with laughter. Around him the court followed suit, their strident cries glancing off the stones and circling the air. Rilkaâs white face flamed and she turned angrily to the King, her fists clenched.<br />
âLaugh if want, but I wonât choose a mate until I have learned to sing!â she proclaimed.<br />
âYou already sing well enough!â<br />
âNo, not like that. A sweet voice, thatâs what I want.â<br />
âNo!â the King protested. âYou are my daughter, a crow, and must call with a crowâs voice.â<br />
âIâll learn to sing, or Iâll not be married!â Rilka cried again, stamping her foot.<br />
The King frowned, his expression sour, but his daughter crossed her arms and stood stubbornly facing him, the flaming cheeks adamant.<br />
Johnny gave a slight smile. âIâll teach your daughter to sing,â he said quietly. âBut on one condition.â<br />
âA waste of time,â the King said gruffly.<br />
âIâm in no hurry,â Johnny replied.<br />
âWhatâs your condition?â Rilka asked, eagerly.<br />
âThat if I succeed, I be made the King of Crows,â Johnny said, surprised by his own boldness. But how else to gain her? he thought.<br />
The King laughed again and the court followed in a clamoring chorus. The Kingâs cloak snapped fitfully in the rising wind and he lunged toward Johnny. A gnarled fist grabbed Johnny around the collar of his old shirt and lifted him up on his toes. The King searched Johnnyâs face, the black eyes piercing.<br />
âYou think sheâs a woman. Make no mistake musician, sheâs a crow. And harsh though her call, sheâll be no other thing but what she is. Your offer is foolish and has the mark of a man stupid enough to love a creature beyond his reach.â<br />
âAnd still I make the offer,â Johnny said calmly, though his heart was pounding. The King slowly released his hold and Johnny felt the soles of his feet returning to the earth.<br />
âFair enough. You will have until the end of summer. If you succeed I will relinquish this crown to you, though Iâve no fear that this will happen. And when he fails,â the King turned to his daughter, âIâll choose your mate, and the matter will be settled once and for all.â<br />
Rilka opened her mouth to speak, but the Kingâs upraised hand commanded silence. âThink well on it, daughter. Youâre a crow, the daughter of the King of Crows, and there is no musician that can alter that truth.â<br />
âIâll learn to sing,â Rilka said tartly.<br />
âAnd then what?â the King asked. âWhom will you sing for? For us?â He opened wide his arms to the court of crows.<br />
âIâll sing for myself.â<br />
âThen youâll sing alone, my daughter,â the King replied. âBut so be it, youâll learn the hard way that you are a crow.â The King looked over his restless court and exclaimed, âI am done here.â<br />
All around him the waiting court burst into noise, the shrill cawing and harsh scraping of their voices breaking the spell that held their forms. Their cloaks flapped wildly, lifting the dust from between the bladed grass, and in the swirling clouds, they gave themselves over to flight. Johnny held his hand over his face to protect it from the seething dust, glimpsing in the turquoise sky the black veins of their parting. And then the winds quieted, the dust was exhaled back to the earth, and the sky shone clear again. Johnny Fahey found himself alone with Rilka, daughter to the King of Crows.<br />
âWhat are you called?â she demanded.<br />
âJohnny Fahey.â<br />
âWhat sort of name is that?â she asked, head cocked back as she looked up at him with her sharp eyes.<br />
âOne without shame,â he shrugged.<br />
âAnd where did you learn to sing?â<br />
Johnny smiled remembering. âIt was all around me. I had only to listen. My mother ââ<br />
ââ Just listen?â Rilka interrupted. âThat doesnât sound right. Surely there were people who taught you, gave you the know-how so you didnât make a fool of yourself. Thatâs what my father says. You have to get the way of it from someone who knows, otherwise youâre stuck, flying in a circle with just one wing. Have you ever seen the deserts from up high? Of course you havenât. You canât fly. Well, I have and let me tell youâ â<br />
And on she went, not stopping for a breath or pause, scarcely caring whether he answered her rapid questions or not. Johnnyâs face turned slowly to stone, the constant rattle of her voice hammering against his ear. It amazed him, for on the one hand, as a crow she had seen a great deal of the world and was only too willing to talk and talk and talk about it. In small spoonfuls, it might have been interesting. But the words poured from her in a deluge as if all her life she had stored them up, waiting for this moment to release them.<br />
The sun rose higher in the sky, tinting the green grass to a fallow gold, and still Rilka talked. It was only when the sun had reached the lip of the high canyon wall that Johnny stuttered to life and caught the girl by the shoulders.<br />
âThatâs enough for todayâs lesson,â he blurted out, exhausted.<br />
âBut you didnât do anything,â she said peevishly. âI didnât do anything.â<br />
âYou did quite a bit,â Johnny said. âAnd now itâs time to end. Tomorrow Iâll try again.â Johnny stumbled wearily to where his pack lay and made camp for the night. Rilka watched him and he heard the flurry of angry wings as she transformed herself and flew away into the dimming sky.<br />
That night as he lay beside his fire, listening to the sound of the dry wood sigh itself into ash, Johnny wondered how he was going to reach beyond Rilkaâs chatter. She talks, he thought, because among the crows listening is not valued. She talks, he thought, because no one has ever listened to her. Until now. Did he have the patience, he wondered, to listen while she talked, while she emptied herself of all the words she needed to say before she could listen? He would have to teach her how to listen without words. He stirred the fire and in the black coals rimmed with white-hot flames saw her cheek against the black hair. He chuckled, knowing himself to be smitten, and for that, he would listen a long time. And maybe there were small things, gestures that might gentle her tongue and make her settle into quiet. Only then would she be able to hear the songs that waited inside her voice.<br />
When he woke in the morning, Rilka was beside him, stirring up the campfire. He got up from his blanket, shyly, and she laughed at his hair that stuck out over his head like so much thistledown. He combed it with his fingers good-naturedly and offered her coffee. She nodded yes and began again to talk. She chattered on about the world, about the tops of the mountains, the sea, the stupidity of the court, even about her own beauty. The morning sun caught her face, and the white skin glowed. And in Johnny Faheyâs heart, the day began.<br />
Johnny said not one word, but did his work. Moving slowly round her, where she sat on a stone by the fire. He mixed the dough for biscuits, he ground the coffee beans in their burlap sack between two stones and set them in a pot of water to boil. He soaked the beans and bacon in a second pot and set them over the fire. He hummed as he worked, his voice a subtle background to the constant prattle of her voice. He touched her hand from time to time, putting a cup in it, a biscuit, every gesture in the rhythm of his hummed tune. The flow of Rilkaâs words broke and stumbled with the touch, but just as quick returned. Only Johnny heard the moment her speech began to flow with the rhythm of his tune. She smiled now as she spoke, almost without realizing that his song carried her along, changed the harsh tone of her chatter into a sweeter babble. But babble it still was, and Johnny was glad when they ate, for it gave him a momentâs respite from all her talk.<br />
And so it went throughout that day and the next and the next; Johnny saying little, only a nod, a murmured reply between the softly whistled tune to show that he heard her. He wondered that it didn't drive him away, so much empty talk. But something in the soft pleading of her eyes, in the need to speak so much, stayed him. And gradually, he heard the torrent of words begin to exhaust itself. Passages of silence broke in, like sunlight sparkling in a cloud break at the end of a long storm. One day she sighed, folded her hands into her lap, and said nothing for a long time.<br />
âIs it done, you are?â Johnny asked, taking out his fiddle.<br />
Rilka nodded.<br />
Johnny smiled and put the fiddle beneath his chin. He played a sweet aire, slick as new grass and sad as the bent bough. Rilka heard it and tears gathered in her eyes. Johnny stopped playing and put away his fiddle.<br />
âCome on, then,â he said, giving her his hand. âWalk a ways with me.â<br />
They walked through the canyon walls, then climbed the back of the high escarpments. Along the rim of the canyon, Johnny whistled a tangled tune, and far in the distance, coyotes yipped.<br />
âCan you hear it?â he asked her, the flow of sound touching him. A jig, he thought, to shape the barks of the coyotes.<br />
âHear what?â Rilka asked, puzzled.<br />
Johnny touched her softly, a finger gently tracing the outline of her ear, inviting. âItâs there,â he whispered.<br />
She raised her face, waiting, almost afraid. And then her eyes hardened. âI hear nothing.â<br />
âItâll come,â he promised, and let his hand hold her chin. Her upturned mouth was so close that he leaned in to kiss her.<br />
She pulled her head free from his hand and bristled angrily. âBut I want to sing. Make me sing!â<br />
âRilka,â he said softly, stepping back from her. âYou will sing, but first you must hear.â<br />
âThatâs ridiculous! Iâm sure I hear well enough,â she replied hotly.<br />
âIf you can hear the tune, then you can sing it.â<br />
âIs that all there is to it?â Rilka threw back her head, her white throat to the sun, and opened her mouth to sing. But out came only the harsh cries of a crow, and the harder she tried to sweeten her voice, the louder she croaked and cawed. At last, stamping her foot in frustration, she leapt from the canyon wall, and in the open air transformed into a crow. But Johnny saw her face just before the black feathers claimed it, and it was hurt and sad.<br />
âWell,â he muttered as she flew away, âyouâve unraveled that.â And he walked slowly down the trail to the camp.<br />
He couldnât bring himself to leave the canyon just yet. Heâd enough food and water, and so he remained there, one eye glancing hopefully at the horizon for sight of her. Almost a month passed before Rilka returned again. She came one morning early, walking through the long grass, dew spangled on the hem of her dress. Her expression was pensive, her hands clasped together.<br />
Johnny nodded in greeting and quietly set about making coffee. He mixed the dough for biscuits and set the beans on to boil. And when it was done, he held her hands lightly before he gave her the coffee cup and touched her on the shoulder when he handed her the biscuits. She sighed deeply and shook out her long hair.<br />
And then she talked again, her voice hardâedged but not hurried as it once had been. She talked about the court, about her fatherâs wish to end his reign, and about the life that was being shaped for her among the court of crows.<br />
Johnny heard the somber pitch of sorrow in her voice. He wanted to hold her and shelter her from whatever sadness had brought her to him now. She was proud, but her pride had bowed before defeat. There was no eagerness, no arrogance in her voice, and she sat hunched, arms folded over her chest.<br />
âI am to be married,â she declared at last. âFor I sing like a crow and will never be anything other. Or at least my father has told me. I donât like the mate he has chosen, but he has a strong voice and will be heard over the racket of the others,â she added bitterly.<br />
Johnny trembled as he took her hands between his, rosin leaving a pale gold dust on her palms. âNo,â he said, âno, give it more time. Give yourself another chance yet. At least until the end of summer.â<br />
She gazed sharply at him. âIt would be a waste of time. I learned that on the cliffs.â<br />
âNo that isnât true. Listen to me, Rilka.â<br />
She stiffened, pulling her hands free of his grasp. âNo. I couldnât hear it then, and I wonât hear it now,â she said angrily.<br />
She started to stand but Johnny held her by the shoulders and kissed her on the mouth.<br />
On his tongue her soft lips tasted of elderberries, and her cheek smelled of sage. At first Rilka didnât move, startled Johnny thought, as was he, by his boldness. And then she leaned into the kiss, her face tilted up to meet him. Her hands circled his neck and Johnny felt her cool fingers lace through his hair. He embraced her, pulling her body close to his chest, to hear the rapid beating of her heart and the soft murmured sighs of her throat. It was a long kiss, and when they broke apart, there were no words to match its fire. He stroked her cheek, his eyes never leaving her face. She held him by the waist, and smiled.<br />
They stayed together that day, wandering through the canyon and marking the slow passage of the sun. In the night Rilka lay beside Johnny, and in the moonlight, the length of her bare skin blazed like a comet beneath the black velvet cloak. He called her name over and over and it carried a tune all its own. She answered and the words breathed from her mouth into his and back again until it was all one song. And late in the night, when both grew weary, Johnny laid his head against the pillow of her white breast and slept, hearing the wind shiver through the long grass.<br />
He woke in the morning to find himself alone. He sat up, confused, not knowing when she had left him. He walked through the grass, following the trail of dew-damp footprints until they disappeared abruptly. He searched the pale morning sky and knew, by the utter silence, that she was gone.<br />
He stayed another week, stubbornly refusing to believe that she had returned to the court of crows. But the wind shifted, growing colder, and he felt the summer come to a close. If he remained much longer in the canyon, hoping against hope to see her again, he would be trapped when the winter came with its blinding snowstorms. Reluctantly he packed his dwindling food supplies. He filled his canteen at the spring, and with slow, heavy steps he left the canyon.<br />
On the following day the court of crows returned. They flapped their wide black wings in the air, descending into the grass with their shrill caws. Once transformed into human form, they continued bickering, tugging at wedding gifts and challenging each other for the right to stand beside the bride and groom.<br />
The groom preened himself, stopping now and again to crack out orders to his attending men. He was tall and stood erect, his inky hair slicked down over his proud head. He shook out his cloak, straightened the fine embroidered vest and glanced occasionally where his bride stood, silent among the noisy throng. He frowned at her, wishing sheâd more to say for herself.<br />
Rilka looked around in the canyon. She had not thought to see any signs of Johnny Fahey, and yet his absence pained her terribly. She knew how much she had silently hoped for another sight of him. Her arms felt heavy at her sides, her hands empty. She raised her hands, looking at her palms, seeing again the faint dust of rosin from his touch. And then she remembered with a smile that he was always putting a cup into them, or a biscuit. Always giving something of himself to her without a word. And she heard in her ear like the sudden lilt of the thrush the constant tune he had hummed. She shook her head, the black veil rustling, and this she heard as music. He had taught her to listen, not by words, but in his deeds and touch. Her constant chatter had deafened her to his message and she had fled, humiliated by her own ugly voice. She had blamed him for her failure until that last day when she had come to see him once more. In a single day he had surrendered everything of himself to her, his body, his love, even the music. But she had held back, fearing the ugliness of her crowâs voice. It was her vanity that made her leave him in the morning and not return.<br />
Her serving women crackled and groused, pulling her dress into place, lowering the black veil and smoothing the train behind her. But all Rilka could hear now was the sorrow in her heart. Her vanity had cost her Johnny Faheyâs love; it had made her deaf to the music. And now she would marry a man like herself: a crow, sharp-tongued and loud. Through the burn of tears, she recalled Johnnyâs smile and she touched her lips through the veil remembering the soft fullness of his mouth, the breath that even as he kissed her carried a tune. And as Rilka swallowed, her throat was filled with the thick sweet taste of wild honey.<br />
âWait,â she cried to the assembled court.<br />
âFor what?â demanded the groom.<br />
âI will sing,â she said softly.<br />
âRilka, enough of your foolishness,â the King of Crows declared. But already summer had aged him, and his voice was subdued.<br />
âI will sing, Father, and we will see who is the King of Crows.â<br />
Rilka lifted her veil and brushed it back from her face. She gazed up into the sky, blue as Johnnyâs eyes and started to sing. She knew at once the words and the tune; it was his song. He had sung it often to her when they had sat together by the fire or walked along the rim of the canyon, though she had scarce heard through her chatter. Now it was in her ear as clear and insistent as the sweet piping of finches.<br />
Her voice rose in her chest and traveled the length of her honeyâcoated throat until it issued forth beyond her lips. Not a crowâs voice at all, but a low hollow sound, sad and haunting as she continued to sing. The long black veil faded into a fine ivory lace and the black wedding dress softened into a pale smoky silk. Rilka let the song change her, bleed the color from her shining black hair and her jet black eyes until her cloak was a soft gray and her eyes red with weeping.<br />
And before the astonished court she shuddered out of her human form and took the air as a dove. She flew over the high walls of the canyon, and her mournful cry was carried aloft by the wind.<br />
The court of crows disbanded, for according to the Kingâs own bargain, Johnny Fahey was the rightful King of Crows and he could not be found. The crows searched, but every time they met, they scrabbled and fought, and news that might have aided their search was dropped like useless scraps.<br />
Johnny Fahey had made his way through the mountains until he had come to a small farmhouse nestled in a grove of cedar trees. There he met a woman with hair the color of wheat and an easy grace. He married her, and the children came, one, two and three. He played the fiddle for the weddings and the wakes, and in the winter months he played for his family.<br />
But always in the spring, when the birds returned to the cedar grove, Johnny Fahey would find himself alone late at night standing on the porch of his house. His wife and children asleep, he would listen to the sad song of a mourning dove hidden among the fragrant trees, and without knowing why, he would lower his head and the tears would come.<br />
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Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-89371271788610507422016-02-29T09:29:00.000-08:002016-02-29T09:31:28.165-08:00The Myth of Persephone:<h1 style="text-align: center;">
The Myth of Persephone: <br /> Greek Goddess of the Underworld</h1>
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<span class="text">( <a href="http://www.mythicarts.com/writing/Persephone.html#interpretation">Interpretation</a> <em>by Laura Strong, PhD)</em></span><br />
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It was a beautiful day like all the others in this land, the sun shone brightly in the sky, the hills were lush and green, and flowers blossomed from the earth. The lovely young maiden, Persephone, frolicked with her friends upon the hillside, as her mother Demeter sat near by, and her father Zeus peered down from the sky above. Laughter could be heard in between the young girls' whispered secrets, as they gathered handfuls of purple crocuses, royal blue irises and sweet-smelling hyacinths. Persephone thought to bring some to her mother, but was soon distracted by a vision of the most enchanting flower she had ever seen. It was a narcissus, the exact flower her father hoped that she would find. As she reached down to pluck it from its resting place, her feet began to tremble and the earth was split in two. Life for Persephone would never be the same again.<br />
From this gaping crevice in the ground emerged the awe-inspiring God of the Underworld, Hades, and before Persephone could even think to utter a word, she was whisked off her feet onto the God's golden chariot. As the crack of the whip upon his majestic horses brought her to her senses, she realized she was about to taken into the black depths from which he'd come. The thought of this brought terror to her heart, yet any screams of protest were soon lost within the darkness, as they descended quickly into the Underworld below.<br />
While Persephone's cries could not be heard above the ground, the pain in Demeter's heart quickly alerted her to the fact that something was terribly wrong. She searched high and low for her dear daughter, who had vanished from both the heavens and the earth. Consumed by depression over the loss of her child, she soon ceased to remember her worldly duties as Goddess of Grain and Growth. As she watched the plants wither and die all around her, she felt her own hopes begin to fade as well.<br />
At the same time, deep down in the realm of the dead, Hades hoped to explain his actions to the sweet Persephone. Professing his love, he told her of the plan her father helped deploy and begged her to stay and be his wife. Yet, Persephone longed for something more, the comforts of her mother's home and a view of the lush green grass and blue sky up above.<br />
Far above the darkness of the Underworld, her mother continued to wander the forlorn earth. Eventually she found her way to the town of Eleusis, where she rested by a flowing fountain. Stripped of all her vital energy, she appeared old and wrinkled beyond her years. Soon four young females found the aging Goddess, and agreed to take her home. Their parents were glad to offer the elderly woman lodging and a stable position caring for their little son. Wishing to reward the family for their kindness, Demeter attempted to offer the child the gift of immortality, by sticking him in the fire each night and removing him every morning before dawn. When the child's mother found him in the flames, she was horrified. Her mortal mind could not comprehend the actions of the Goddess, and she asked her to leave their home at once. This immediately brought back Demeter's fighting spirit, who surprised them by exposing her true self. The family begged the Goddess for forgive them and in return agreed to her demands: "A temple would be built in my honor, and you will teach the world my secret to immortality." Within no time, the town built a beautiful temple on the hillside, which the Goddess blessed before continuing on her journey. <br />
Yet it didn't take long for Demeter's happiness to be replaced with rage, as she recalled the disappearance of her daughter. She flew to the home of Zeus and demanded that Persephone be found at once. She also questioned every immortal she could find and eventually uncovered Zeus' plot. In an attempt to appease Demeter's growing anger, he dispatched a messenger to retrieve their daughter from the depths.<br />
Upon his entry to the Underworld, the messenger Hermes was amazed at what he found. Instead of finding a frail and fearful Persephone, he found a radiant and striking Queen of the Dead. She had adjusted well to her new position, saying she had even found her calling. The Goddess was now in charge of greeting the new arrivals and helping them adapt to their new life. While she wished to see her mother up above, she was torn by her desire to remain Hades' wife.<br />
Hoping to comfort Persephone in her confusion, Hades came to his Queen's side. He gently kissed her forehead and urged her, "Do not fret, eat instead from this fruit I know you will like." As she pressed the red pomegranate seeds to her lips, she listened to his words. He told her he would miss her very much, but her duties as a daughter mattered too. So, she climbed into the chariot and bid her husband farewell, as Hermes sped them off to the middle realm of mother earth, the home of her devoted mother.<br />
The flowers sang joyfully of her return, while her mother beamed with pride. Yet, the child that she had born and raised had changed while she was gone. She had grown into a goddess, one both beautiful and wise and the more that Demeter inquired about her experiences below, the more she came to worry that the life they knew was gone. She recalled a declaration Zeus had made from the heavens up above: in order for Persephone to return to the home and life she had known, the young goddess must be as pure as the day she left her mother's side. However, the ruby stain upon her lips spoke of the beauty's fate. Persephone had tasted of the fruit of life. It could not be erased. <br />
Even so, Zeus loved his daughter too much to send her back to Hades without the hope of returning to her mother's abode above. So, each spring Persephone comes back with the flowers that pave her way, to tell the story of rebirth, hope and harmony. And each fall when she leaves again for the Underworld below, her mother mourns and winter comes, while she waits for her return. Yet, for Persephone there is no remorse. She looks forward to the time she spends as Hades' Queen and wife, and to guiding those who have lost their way to the next phase of their life. Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-27594640754405743302015-11-06T08:37:00.000-08:002015-11-06T08:38:11.879-08:00Arthur Rimbaud<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud</b> </div>
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Arthur was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes. He influenced modern literature and arts, inspired various musicians, and prefigured surrealism. He started writing poems at a very young age, while still in primary school, and stopped completely before he turned 21. He was mostly creative during the age of 17â20. His genius, flowering, explosion and sudden extinction, still astonishes. <br />
Rimbaud was known to have been a libertine and for being a restless soul. He traveled extensively on three continents before his death from cancer just after his thirty-seventh birthday. (From Wiki)<br />
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I find him to be beautifully wicked! What a shame he didn't continue to write and what a young age to perish! He feels reminiscent of my beloved Baudelaire!<br />
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<strong><u>Faun's Head</u></strong><br />
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Among the foliage, green casket flecked with gold; <br />
in the uncertain foliage that blossoms <br />
with gorgeous flowers where sleeps the kiss, <br />
vivid, and bursting through the sumptuous tapestry, <br />
a startled faun shows his two eyes <br />
and bites the crimson flowers with his white teeth. <br />
Stained and ensanguined like mellow wine, <br />
his mouth bursts out in laughter beneath the branches. <br />
And when he has fled - like a squirrel - <br />
his laughter still vibrates on every leaf, <br />
and you can see, startled by a bullfinch, <br />
the Golden Kiss of the Wood, <br />
gathering itself together again.<br />
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<strong><u>A Winter Dream</u></strong><br />
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In winter weâll travel in a little pink carriage <br />
With cushions of blue. <br />
Weâll be fine. A nest of mad kisses waits <br />
In each corner too. <br />
Youâll shut your eyes, not to see, through the glass, <br />
Grimacing shadows of evening, <br />
Those snarling monsters, a crowd going past <br />
Of black wolves and black demons. <br />
Then youâll feel your cheek tickled quite hard⌠<br />
A little kiss, like a maddened spider, <br />
Will run over your neck⌠<br />
And youâll say: âCatch it!â bowing your head, <br />
â And weâll take our time finding that creature <br />
â Who travels so farâŚ<br />
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<strong><u>Fairy</u></strong><br />
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For Helen, in the virgin shadows and the <br />
impassive radiance in astral silence, <br />
ornamental saps conspired. <br />
Summer's ardour was confided <br />
to silent birds and due indolence <br />
to a priceless mourning boat <br />
through gulfs of dead loves <br />
and fallen perfumes. <br />
-After the moment of the woods women's song <br />
to the rumble of the torrent in the ruin of the wood, <br />
of the tinkle of the cowbells to the echo of the vales, <br />
and the cries of the steppes. <br />
- For Helen's childhood, furs and shadows trembled, <br />
and the breast of the poor and the legends of heaven. <br />
And her eyes and her dance superior <br />
even to the precious radiance, <br />
to cold influences, to the pleasure of the unique <br />
setting and the unique hour.<br />
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<strong><u>Being Beauteous</u></strong><br />
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Against a fall of snow, a Being Beautiful, and very tall. <br />
Whistlings of death and circles of faint music <br />
Make this adored body, swelling and trembling<br />
Like a specter, rise... <br />
Black and scarlet gashes burst in the gleaming flesh. <br />
The true colors of life grow dark, <br />
Shimmering and separate <br />
In the scaffolding, around the Vision. <br />
Shiverings mutter and rise, <br />
And the furious taste of these effects is charged <br />
With deadly whistlings and the raucous music <br />
That the world, far behind us, hurls at our mother of beauty... <br />
She retreats, she rises up... <br />
Oh! Our bones have put on new flesh, for love.<br />
Oh ash-white face <br />
Oh tousled hair <br />
O crystal arms! <br />
On this cannot I mean to destroy myself <br />
In a swirling of trees and soft air!<br />
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<strong><u>Sun and Flesh</u></strong> <br />
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Birth of Venus<br />
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life,<br />
Pours burning love on the delighted earth,<br />
And when you lie down in the valley, you can smell<br />
How the earth is nubile and very full-blooded;<br />
How its huge breast, heaved up by a soul,<br />
Is, like God, made of love, and, like woman, of flesh,<br />
And that it contains, big with sap and with sunlight,<br />
The vast pullulation of all embryos!<br />
And everything grows, and everything rises!<br />
- O Venus, O Goddess!<br />
I long for the days of antique youth,<br />
Of lascivious satyrs, and animal fauns,<br />
Gods who bit, mad with love, the bark of the boughs,<br />
And among water-lilies kissed the Nymph with fair hair!<br />
I long for the time when the sap of the world,<br />
River water, the rose-coloured blood of green trees<br />
Put into the veins of Pan a whole universe!<br />
When the earth trembled, green,beneath his goat-feet;<br />
When, softly kissing the fair Syrinx, his lips formed<br />
Under heaven the great hymn of love;<br />
When, standing on the plain, he heard round about him<br />
Living Nature answer his call;<br />
When the silent trees cradling the singing bird,<br />
Earth cradling mankind, and the whole blue Ocean,<br />
And all living creatures loved, loved in God!<br />
I long for the time of great Cybele,<br />
Who was said to travel, gigantically lovely,<br />
In a great bronze chariot, through splendid cities;<br />
Her twin breasts poured, through the vast deeps,<br />
The pure streams of infinite life.<br />
Mankind sucked joyfully at her blessed nipple,<br />
Like a small child playing on her knees.<br />
- Because he was strong, Man was gentle and chaste.<br />
Misfortune! Now he says: I understand things,<br />
And goes about with eyes shut and ears closed.<br />
- And again, no more gods! no more gods! Man is King,<br />
Man is God! But the great faith is Love!<br />
Oh! if only man still drew sustenance from your nipple,<br />
Great mother of gods and of men, Cybele;<br />
If only he had not forsaken immortal Astarte<br />
Who long ago, rising in the tremendous brightness<br />
Of blue waters, flower-flesh perfumed by the wave,<br />
Showed her rosy navel, towards which the foam came snowing<br />
And , being a goddess with the great conquering black eyes,<br />
Made the nightingale sing in the woods and love in men's hearts!<br />
The Birth of Venus<br />
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II<br />
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I believe! I believe in you! divine mother,<br />
Sea-born Aphrodite! - Oh! the path is bitter<br />
Since the other God harnessed us to his cross;<br />
Flesh, Marble, Flower, Venus, in you I believe!<br />
- yes, Man is sad and ugly, sad under the vast sky.<br />
He possesses clothes, because he is no longer chaste,<br />
Because he has defiled his proud, godlike head<br />
And because he has bent, like an idol in the furnace,<br />
His Olympian form towards base slaveries!<br />
Yes, even after death, in the form of pale skeletons<br />
He wishes to live and insult the original beauty!<br />
- And the Idol in whom you placed such maidenhood,<br />
Woman, in whom you rendered our clay divine,<br />
So that Man might bring light into his poor soul<br />
And slowly ascend, in unbounded love,<br />
From the earthly prison to the beauty of day,<br />
Woman no longer knows even how to be a Courtesan!<br />
- It's a fine farce! and the world snickers<br />
At the sweet and sacred name of great Venus!<br />
III<br />
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If only the times which have come and gone might come again!<br />
- For Man is finished! Man has played all the parts!<br />
In the broad daylight, wearied with breaking idols<br />
He will revive, free of all his gods,<br />
And, since he is of heaven, he will scan the heavens!<br />
The Ideal, that eternal, invincible thought, which is<br />
All; The living god within his fleshly clay,<br />
Will rise, mount, burn beneath his brow!<br />
An when you see him plumbing the whole horizon,<br />
Despising old yokes, and free from all fear,<br />
You will come and give him holy Redemption!<br />
- Resplendent, radiant, from the bosom of the huge seas<br />
You will rise up and give to the vast Universe<br />
Infinite Love with its eternal smile!<br />
The World will vibrate like an immense lyre<br />
In the trembling of an infinite kiss!<br />
- The World thirsts for love: you will come and slake its thirst.<br />
.................................. ..................<br />
O! Man has raised his free, proud head!<br />
And the sudden blaze of primordial beauty<br />
Makes the god quiver in the altar of the flesh!<br />
Happy in the present good, pale from the ill suffered,<br />
Man wishes to plumb all depths, - and know all things! Thought,<br />
So long a jade, and for so long oppressed,<br />
Springs from his forehead! She will know Why!...<br />
Let her but gallop free, and Man will find Faith!<br />
- Why the blue silence, unfathomable space?<br />
Why the golden stars, teeming like sands?<br />
If one ascended forever, what would one see up there?<br />
Does a sheperd drive this enormous flock<br />
Of worlds on a journey through this horror of space?<br />
And do all these worlds contained in the vast ether,<br />
tremble at the tones of an eternal voice?<br />
- And Man, can he see? can he say: I believe?<br />
Is the langage of thought anymore than a dream?<br />
If man is born so quickly, if life is so short<br />
Whence does he come? Does he sink into the deep Ocean<br />
Of Germs, of Foetuses, of Embryos, to the bottom<br />
of the huge Crucible where Nature the Mother<br />
Will resuscitate him, a living creature,<br />
To love in the rose and to grow in the corn?...<br />
We cannot know! - We are weighed down<br />
With a cloak of ignorance, hemmed in by chimaeras!<br />
Men like apes, dropped from our mothers' wombs,<br />
Our feeble reason hides the infinite from us!<br />
We wish to perceive: - and Doubt punishes us!<br />
Doubt, dismal bird, beat us down with its wing...<br />
- And the horizon rushes away in endless flight!...<br />
............................... ........................<br />
The vast heaven is open! the mysteries lie dead<br />
Before erect Man, who folds his strong arms<br />
Among the vast splendour of abundant Nature!<br />
He sings... and the woods sing, the river murmurs<br />
A song full of happiness which rises towards the light!...<br />
- it is Redemption! it is love! it is love!...<br />
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IV<br />
O splendour of flesh! O ideal splendour!<br />
O renewal of love, triumphal dawn<br />
When, prostrating the Gods and the Heroes,<br />
White Callipyge and little Eros<br />
Covered with the snow of rose petals, will caress<br />
Women and flowers beneath their lovely outstretched feet!<br />
- O great Ariadne who pour out your tears<br />
On the shore, as you see, out there on the waves,<br />
The sail of Theseus flying white under the sun,<br />
O sweet virgin child whom a night has broken,<br />
Be silent! On his golden chariot studded with black grapes,<br />
Lysios, who has been drawn through Phrygian fields<br />
By lascivious tigers and russet panthers,<br />
Reddens the dark mosses along the blue rivers.<br />
- Zeus, the Bull, cradles on his neck like a child<br />
The nude body of Europa who throws her white arm<br />
Round the God's muscular neck which shivers in the wave.<br />
Slowly he turns his dreamy eye towards her;<br />
She, droops her pale flowerlike cheek<br />
On the brow of Zeus; her eyes are closed; she is dying<br />
In a divine kiss, and the murmuring waters<br />
Strew the flowers of their golden foam on her hair.<br />
- Between the oleander and the gaudy lotus tree<br />
Slips amorously the great dreaming Swan<br />
Enfloding Leda in the whiteness of his wing;<br />
- And while Cypris goes by, strangely beautiful,<br />
And, arching the marvellous curves of her back,<br />
Proudly displays the golden vision of her big breasts<br />
And snowy belly embroidered with black moss,<br />
- Hercules, Tamer of beasts, in his Strength,<br />
Robes his huge body with the lion's skin as with glory<br />
And faces the horizons, his brow terrible and sweet!<br />
Vaguely lit by the summer moon,<br />
Erect, naked, dreaming in her pallor of gold<br />
Streaked by the heavy wave of her long blue hair,<br />
In the shadowy glade whenre stars spring in the moss,<br />
The Dryade gazes up at the silent sky...<br />
- White Selene, timidly, lets her veil float,<br />
Over the feet of beautiful Endymion,<br />
And throws him a kiss in a pale beam...<br />
- The Spring sobs far off in a long ectasy...<br />
Ii is the nymph who dreams with one elbow on her urn,<br />
Of the handsome white stripling her wave has pressed against.<br />
- A soft wind of love has passed in the night,<br />
And in the sacred woods, amid the standing hair of the great trees,<br />
Erect in majesty, the shadowly Marbles,<br />
The Gods, on whose brows the Bullfinch has his nest,<br />
- the Gods listen to Men, and to the infinite World! <br />
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<strong><u>My Little Lovelies</u></strong><br />
<br />
A tearful tincture washes <br />
Cabbage-green skies; <br />
Beneath the dribbling bushes <br />
Your raincoats lie; <br />
Pale white in private moonlight, <br />
Like round-eyed sores, <br />
Flap your scabby kneecaps apart, <br />
My ugly whores! <br />
We loved each other in those days, <br />
Ugly blue whore! <br />
We ate boiled eggs <br />
And weed. <br />
One night you made me a poet, <br />
Ugly blond whore. <br />
Get between my legs, <br />
I'll whip you. <br />
I puked up your greasy hair, <br />
Ugly black whore; <br />
You tried to unstring <br />
My guitar. <br />
Blah! Some of my dried-up spit, <br />
Ugly red whore, <br />
Still stinks in the cracks <br />
Of your breast. <br />
O my little lovelies, <br />
I hate your guts! <br />
Go stick big blisters <br />
On your ugly tits! <br />
Break the cracked bottles and jars <br />
Of my feelings; <br />
Come on! Be my ballerinas <br />
Just for a while! <br />
Your shoulder blades are twisted back, <br />
My masterpieces! <br />
Stick stars in your snatches and shake <br />
Them to bits! <br />
And it was for you hunks of meat <br />
I wrote my rhymes! <br />
My love was sticky self-deceit <br />
And dirty games! <br />
Dumb bunch of burnt-out stars, <br />
- Against the walls! <br />
Go back to God, croak in corners <br />
Like animals! <br />
Pale white in private moonlight, <br />
Like round-eyed sores, <br />
Flap your scabby kneecaps apart, <br />
My ugly whores! </div>
Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-71498421821812404702015-09-01T11:30:00.002-07:002020-05-21T22:33:59.235-07:00Reincarnation: A grotesque short story by Victory<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u>Reincarnation</u></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> By Victory<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I was first suffocated and then raped
by a serial killer. I was his 23<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup> Victim. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was found in pieces along side the highway
in a ditch. I was the 23<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup> victim he hacked to pieces with a pickax
found close nearby. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My body parts had
been laying there for 5 straight days in the 105 degree August sun. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didnât find the scent of my own rotting
carcass too pleasing. Occasionally; black crows would show up and begin to peck
on my decomposing flesh, but even they didnât find me too pleasurable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After days of laying in pieces sizzling
in this hazy heat; my mind became infused with straight delirium<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Am
I dead? How am I aware of my surroundings</i>? Over top of me a giant black portal
unexpectedly appeared. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A large metal
claw came down and grabbed the entire earth around my mutilated limbs. Up I
went, and when I arrived inside this foreign unidentified craft, I was promptly
thrown into a black garbage bag. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It was a frightening bumpy ride in
which my head rolled from side to side. My severed toes kept lodging themselves
into my nostrils and I was forced to inhale the putrefied remains. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The strange aircraft took me straight
up through the hemisphere and soon entered a dark warehouse. I could hear the commotion
of industrial sounds from outside of my garbage bag. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So there I sat in my bag, merely
just a pile of mutilated flesh, when I jerked forward and my remains toppled over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
finally able to peer out the drawstring opening of the bag. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I soon discovered I was sitting in a line on a conveyer belt with
other human bodies that were severely disfigured. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">âNEXTâ <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
were hundreds of bodies in front of me and in back of me. Yet I appeared to be
the only one that was dismembered and crudely shoved inside a garbage bag. The man in front of me was
clearly deceased with half his brain exposed and his jaw hanging on by a
thread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But somehow he still managed to
stand upright, though he was swaying back and forth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conveyer belt alternated between creaking forward slowly
and stopping abruptly until finally the man in front of me was first in the line. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">From the cracks I watched as a team of surgeons sewed his face back together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They then pressed his brains back inside his
head and crudely stitched the cranium to one piece. He stood up and turned
around to face me. He noticed me and smiled and I noticed his blood stained teeth. They swiftly
sprayed him down with a high pressured water hose. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The workers then placed him on a separate
conveyer belt which sent him downwards along to the next terminal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">âNEXTâ <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It was finally my turn. A uniformed
worker rushed forward and picked up the garbage bag that contained my remains.
He handed the bag over to the team of surgeons. They all made a collective sigh
and murmured amongst themselves. They tore open the bag and dumped out the
contents. My eyes on my severed head flinched at the bright exposed light
overhead of me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âWhat the heck is this?â<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âThis must be the latest victim
from The Jersey Torso murderer.â <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="st1"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">They spread my severed limbs across
a steel table. Each one of my fingers was removed from my hand which was
removed from my arm which was removed from my headless torso. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âUGGH! This is going to take
forever!â <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A masked surgeon exclaimed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>âThis body will take entirely too long to
repair.â Another surgeon shook his head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">They hastily sewed my limbs and head
back to my torso. They made a vertical clean slice along my spine and packed the
wound full of menthol rub, healing bacitracin and bandages. There was a large
hump where the packed medicine slowly leaked back into my body; I felt the
cooling sensation begin coursing through my veins. I almost resembled a turtle
from how much medicine was packed deep into the crevice of my back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My body was swollen and saggy and resembled
the tumor ridden elephant man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dried
blood was crusted along the sutures. There were jagged deep cuts across my face
and my lips had been removed so they injected a bit of silicone to create new
lips except my yellow teeth remained fully exposed when I attempted to close my
mouth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âOk guys, this is as good as it
gets, let the machine do the rest of the work.â <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I slowly began moving my legs and
brought myself to an upright position on the steel table. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">âOk lady, get a move on it!â the
workers hoisted me off the table and shoved me onto another conveyer belt. The
belt creaked downward at a faster pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I stood, swaying, dizzy and discombobulated feeling the blood oozing
from my wounds. The pain was unbearable. It felt like every part of my body was
in flames. My feet were ballooned to triple the size of normal with bloody
sutures around my ankles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When the belt finally came
screeching to a halt I was deposited into a heap of crawling bodies. One by one
the workers hastily grabbed us and connected us into the machine that had
millions of tubes coming from each direction. The tubes holders protruded from my
âturtleâ back. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One tube was connected to
a pain killer, the next was connected to the nutrients, and the next was
connected to the âvitalityâ liquid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There I remained for the next
few decades, slowly repairing from the inside out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Here I remained for the next
few decades, until I was fully restored and degenerated back into a miniature
human embryo, in which they would at last thrust me back out into the world through a human vagina. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-24063492582672045532015-08-04T13:56:00.000-07:002018-10-24T12:06:47.999-07:00âWhat are your thoughts on God and Satanâ<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Someone recently asked me a
generic question that could not be simply answered. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<u1:p></u1:p>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">âWhat are your thoughts on
God and Satanâ</span><o:p></o:p><br />
<u1:p></u1:p>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">It seems they may put some
value into what my opinion on this topic is. I told them I am considering
writing them an essay if they were genuinely interested in my thoughts, as this
can not be answered simply. I think they meandered away... hoping that I didn't
bombard them with my heavy thoughts on such matters. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">To be honest, I have been on
a spiritual path ever since I was a kid. I have briefly spoken on this blog
about my own spiritual experiences, and how I live a life full of symbolic
hidden meanings and the constant reminder of synchronicity. Plainly put; I am
an empath, with a vast amount of morals and a melting pot of beliefs, But you
can not label me. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I have had enough of feeling
shamed when I know in my heart I am a good person that does good deeds out of
the goodness of my heart - even when I proudly proclaim I am a misanthrope. I
do hate people in general, I deeply love the few and far between special people
who will love and accept you regardless of your differences, whether it is
sexuality, your culture or religious beliefs. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I donât feel comfortable
inside churches, unless OF COURSE, it is historic church with beautiful architecture,
or a Greek orthodox church. Then I am simply enjoying the visual pleasantries
of my surroundings, the art, the colors, the rituals, the history and the
smells. A Greek orthodox church is a product of my youth, and I find the music
calming, but, I have never known what they were saying. I can honestly admit, I
was probably only there to appease my father. I will still go, perform the
rituals, and sit in the pews with fond memories.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">When I have attempted to go
to regular Sunday mass , I felt shamed, outcast and judged. I felt heads swivel
to eye me and what I am wearing. Afterwards; it is a fact that most of the
members will go home to gossip and judge each other. <u1:p></u1:p>Be honest!
You are!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I decided, I want no parts of
a church establishment. Too much greed, dishonesty, judgement; all things
I personally find morally wrong. I can not help these feelings, feel free to
judge me on them, in my age I have started to care less. I want to live a conscious
free life, and feel no shame, and live my life in connection to my heart, and
to reach spiritual enlightenment to its fullest. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I feel the modern religion is
too violent, and has separated humans for far too long. I feel it is way too
closeminded and judgemental. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Entirely too many people have
died in the name of religion. Too many fiscal gains have been made out of the
name of religion, and I find that entire thing disgusting. Religion is a
franchise, a product of our culture. Everyone wants to argue on who is right
and who shall be judged while a commercial for the latest church flashes on the
screen⌠<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">BUY OUR PRODUCT
- SUPPORT OUR FAITH- DONATE TO OUR CAUSE-JOIN US IN RIGHTIOUSNESS.</span><u1:p></u1:p></strong></span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">On Christianity, I think it
has been attempted to be forced down my throat, as I am an american and that is
what our prominant religion is. A lot of my friends and family have used the
bible as their guideline to life. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I simply can not. I have
found too many inconsistencies in the bible. It makes me question the morale of
the entire religion. I could <strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">NEVER</span></strong>
follow a book that has such cruelty and violence in it. I am too sensitive and
can't even stomach it to sit and read it... although I am sure there are many
beautiful passages that I could instill in my life.... I can't get past the
blatant cruelty. According to their guidelines, I would have been murdered-
repeatedly. I would love for someone with patience to sit and calmly explain to
me how they are able to look past this prominant theme. I am genuinely curious.
it seems no one who follows the bible faithfully can even question these things
without a distinct look of fear in their eye. I would love to get inside their
brain to understand it. But - its so personal that simply a discussion of this
nature will severe friendships and family members. It is so hostile, and cut
and dry, black and white. The bible makes God out to be a villian! The God I
know and love is kind and loving, more on this later. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Of course I will cite
some bible passages for example:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">
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<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Cruel God</span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">â<span style="color: black;"> I
will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your
streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you
desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I
am God.â (<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Ezekiel 35 1 -
God)</span><u1:p></u1:p></strong></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Directing man to
murder innocent women and children</span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">"Then I
heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill
everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them
all â old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch
anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple." So they
began by killing the seventy leaders. "Defile the Temple!" the LORD
commanded. "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill!
Go!" So they went throughout the city and did as they were told." </span></i><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">(Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)</span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Then
direct man to murder everyone who is different </span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">If your own
full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate
friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers
have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one
end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look
with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be
the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you.
You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the
Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of
slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as
this in your midst.</span></i><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">(Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)</span><u1:p></u1:p></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Sexism </span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">"But if [a
girl wasn't a virgin on her wedding night] and evidence of the girl's virginity
is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fatherâs house
and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime
against Godâs people by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you
purge the evil from your midst."</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">(Deuteronomy
22:20-21 NAB)</span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">There are
also quite a few passages where God directs man to sacrifice animals. </span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Iâve pretty much
had enough of the violence and killing, the animal sacrifices, the mistreatment
and murdering of women and children. No, I will not turn a blind eye to it....
I can't even swallow it. Like I said earlier, I am a true empath. The suffering
of innocents? I feel that⌠and it hurts. I understand it was written a long
time ago, and things have changed⌠and exactly that⌠THINGS HAVE CHANGED. I am
free to have an open mind on my own personal spiritual path. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><u1:p></u1:p>I am
not here to judge you, or to change your mind. There is no persuasive
techniques here, I am simply answering the generic <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>question with entirely too much depth, but it
has turned to a complete dissection of my brain. <u1:p></u1:p>I have been quiet
and respectful of everyone elseâs opinion far too long, its past due I set my
mind free. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Iâve never been one to digest
what people give me. In fact, I want to take everything apart and examine it
before I blindly accept something into my routine. Which started my path on
literature. There are so many beautiful books that you can use as a guide to
live a happy fulfilled life. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I simply <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>do not belong in man made establishments when
attempting to spiritually grow. My place of worship is outdoors. I like to go
straight to the source to seek information. I like to go outdoors when I am
feeling stressed and soak up all the good energies from the universe. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Are you wondering what I do believe
in? I donât think people are very accepting of the things I believe in. I think
you will try to force me into a label, and I will not fit perfectly. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I recently stumbled on
ancient readings by Hermes/Thoth that spoke true to my soul. Apparently an
ancient religion is something I have always subconsciously believed in.
Followers of this beautiful belief system have been burned at the stake by catholic
priests who attempted to exterminate ancient religion⌠(Giordano Bruno)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Ancient religions are now
referred to as the occult, which leave a bit of a sour taste on the populations
tongue- occult-/A CULT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>think about why?
Control, power, ego.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Really my beliefs are simple,
and based on LOVE, and RESPECT. In my beliefs, God loves humans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel God wants us to love the earth, and its
creations. And if we <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>do this fully with
our intention, we can receive more blessings. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I think Earth is God and
should be worshipped, and respected. I think Sun is God, it keeps everything
alive. I think the Moon is God, Water is God; I think the Universe is God,
as it exists infinitely without explanation or constraints to time. I think we
are all reflections of the all encompassing God. BUT, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think man has been too curious and analyzed
and murdered the simple beauty that is life and have been restrained from our
full potential because of it. I think Man has so much potential to be better
reflections of God, but we are constrained by the hands of time, controlled by
our egos and hate, and have been a source of mass destruction to our planet.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should only be ashamed of ourselves in the
way we treat our planet, our animals, our people, its time for a change. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">This post is just about God,
I will have to save the topic of Satan for another blog. <o:p></o:p></span>Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-86852973705601789192015-05-21T13:42:00.001-07:002018-10-24T12:00:14.169-07:00Crow and Wolf<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The dying red oak houses the single black Crow;</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sunrise⌠to sunset⌠he protests!</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Desperate for his flock;</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who has long since gone for greener paddocks. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Encounter the solitary red wolf.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Who cries to the moon each night. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Racing through the woodlands, </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Searching for his long lost pack. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">He soon learns how to adapt,</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yet game is scarce, his amateur skills are inept. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Quickly the wolf has become gaunt,</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Crimson coat grows unkempt. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wild golden irises flash towards the shriek of the Crow</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If only he might climb that ancient Oak,</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gnash his teeth against its throat;</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And feast upon that dreadful croak. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A vivid black and blue blur soars overhead</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Downward plummeting chunks of flesh, gore and bloodshed. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wolf hurriedly grinds his canines into the dirt</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Silently appeased to meet his new acquaintance in this wretched
black Bird.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Black beady eyes regard him in admiration;</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">âPerhaps this unpleasant mutt could be of some use⌠</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian with a supple and strange body, a snake-like and fiery body with eyes to go with it. Cass was fluid moving fire. She was like a spirit stuck into a form that would not hold her. Her hair was black and long and silken and whirled about as did her body. Her spirit was either very high or very low. There was no in between for Cass. Some said she was crazy. The dull ones said that. The dull ones would never understand Cass. To the men she was simply a sex machine and they didn't care whether she was crazy or not. And Cass danced and flirted, kissed the men, but except for an instance or two, when it came time to make it with Cass, Cass had somehow slipped away, eluded the men. Her sisters accused her of misusing her beauty, of not using her mind enough, but Cass had mind and spirit; she painted, she danced, she sang, she made things of clay, and when people were hurt either in the spirit or the flesh, Cass felt a deep grieving for them. Her mind was simply different; her mind was simply not practical. Her sisters were jealous of her because she attracted their men, and they were angry because they felt she didn't make the best use of them. She had a habit of being kind to the uglier ones; the so-called handsome men revolted her- "No guts," she said, "no zap. They are riding on their perfect little earlobes and well- shaped nostrils...all surface and no insides..." She had a temper that came close to insanity, she had a temper that some call insanity. Her father had died of alcohol and her mother had run off leaving the girls alone. The girls went to a relative who placed them in a convent. The convent had been an unhappy place, more for Cass than the sisters. The girls were jealous of Cass and Cass fought most of them. She had razor marks all along her left arm from defending herself in two fights. There was also a permanent scar along the left cheek but the scar rather than lessening her beauty only seemed to highlight it. I met her at the West End Bar several nights after her release from the convent. Being youngest, she was the last of the sisters to be released. She simply came in and sat next to me. I was probably the ugliest man in town and this might have had something to do with it. "Drink?" I asked. </div>
"Sure, why not?" <br />
I don't suppose there was anything unusual in our conversation that night, it was simply in the feeling Cass gave. She had chosen me and it was as simple as that. No pressure. She liked her drinks and had a great number of them. She didn't seem quite of age but they served he anyhow. Perhaps she had forged i.d., I don't know. Anyhow, each time she came back from the restroom and sat down next to me, I did feel some pride. She was not only the most beautiful woman in town but also one of the most beautiful I had ever seen. I placed my arm about her waist and kissed her once. "Do you think I'm pretty?" she asked. <br />
"Yes, of course, but there's something else... there's more than your looks..." <br />
"People are always accusing me of being pretty. Do you really think I'm pretty?" <br />
"Pretty isn't the word, it hardly does you fair." <br />
Cass reached into her handbag. I thought she was reaching for her handkerchief. She came out with a long hatpin. Before I could stop her she had run this long hatpin through her nose, sideways, just above the nostrils. I felt disgust and horror. She looked at me and laughed, "Now do you think me pretty? What do you think now, man?" I pulled the hatpin out and held my handkerchief over the bleeding. Several people, including the bartender, had seen the act. The bartender came down: <br />
"Look," he said to Cass, "you act up again and you're out. We don't need your dramatics here." <br />
"Oh, fuck you, man!" she said. <br />
"Better keep her straight," the bartender said to me. <br />
"She'll be all right," I said. <br />
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"It's my nose, I can do what I want with my nose." <br />
"No," I said, "it hurts me." <br />
"You mean it hurts you when I stick a pin in my nose?" <br />
"Yes, it does, I mean it." <br />
"All right, I won't do it again. Cheer up." <br />
She kissed me, rather grinning through the kiss and holding the handkerchief to her nose. We left for my place at closing time. I had some beer and we sat there talking. It was then that I got the perception of her as a person full of kindness and caring. She gave herself away without knowing it. At the same time she would leap back into areas of wildness and incoherence. Schitzi. A beautiful and spiritual schitzi. Perhaps some man, something, would ruin her forever. I hoped that it wouldn't be me. We went to bed and after I turned out the lights Cass asked me, <br />
"When do you want it? Now or in the morning?" <br />
"In the morning," I said and turned my back. <br />
In the morning I got up and made a couple of coffees, brought her one in bed. She laughed. <br />
"You're the first man who has turned it down at night." <br />
"It's o.k.," I said, "we needn't do it at all." <br />
"No, wait, I want to now. Let me freshen up a bit." <br />
Cass went into the bathroom. She came out shortly, looking quite wonderful, her long black hair glistening, her eyes and lips glistening, her glistening... She displayed her body calmly, as a good thing. She got under the sheet. <br />
"Come on, lover man." <br />
I got in. She kissed with abandon but without haste. I let my hands run over her body, through her hair. I mounted. It was hot, and tight. I began to stroke slowly, wanting to make it last. Her eyes looked directly into mine. <br />
"What's your name?" I asked. <br />
"What the hell difference does it make?" she asked. <br />
I laughed and went on ahead. Afterwards she dressed and I drove her back to the bar but she was difficult to forget. I wasn't working and I slept until 2 p.m. then got up and read the paper. I was in the bathtub when she came in with a large leaf- an elephant ear. "I knew you'd be in the bathtub," she said, "so I brought you something to cover that thing with, nature boy." <br />
She threw the elephant leaf down on me in the bathtub. <br />
"How did you know I'd be in the tub?" <br />
"I knew." <br />
Almost every day Cass arrived when I was in the tub. The times were different but she seldom missed, and there was the elephant leaf. And then we'd make love. One or two nights she phoned and I had to bail her out of jail for drunkenness and fighting. <br />
"These sons of bitches," she said, "just because they buy you a few drinks they think they can get into your pants." <br />
"Once you accept a drink you create your own trouble." <br />
"I thought they were interested in me, not just my body." <br />
"I'm interested in you and your body. I doubt, though, that most men can see beyond your body." <br />
I left town for 6 months, bummed around, came back. I had never forgotten Cass, but we'd had some type of argument and I felt like moving anyhow, and when I got back i figured she'd be gone, but I had been sitting in the West End Bar about 30 minutes when she walked in and sat down next to me. <br />
"Well, bastard, I see you've come back." <br />
I ordered her a drink. Then I looked at her. She had on a high- necked dress. I had never seen her in one of those. And under each eye, driven in, were 2 pins with glass heads. All you could see were the heads of the pins, but the pins were driven down into her face. <br />
"God damn you, still trying to destroy your beauty, eh?" <br />
"No, it's the fad, you fool." <br />
"You're crazy." <br />
"I've missed you," she said. <br />
"Is there anybody else?" <br />
"No there isn't anybody else. Just you. But I'm hustling. It costs ten bucks. But you get it free." <br />
"Pull those pins out." <br />
"No, it's the fad." <br />
"It's making me very unhappy." <br />
"Are you sure?" <br />
"Hell yes, I'm sure." <br />
Cass slowly pulled the pins out and put them back in her purse. <br />
"Why do you haggle your beauty?" I asked. "Why don't you just live with it?" <br />
"Because people think it's all I have. Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you you know it's for something else." <br />
"O.k.," I said, "I'm lucky." <br />
"I don't mean you're ugly. People just think you're ugly. You have a fascinating face." <br />
"Thanks." <br />
We had another drink. <br />
"What are you doing?" she asked. <br />
"Nothing. I can't get on to anything. No interest." <br />
"Me neither. If you were a woman you could hustle." <br />
"I don't think I could ever make contact with that many strangers, it's wearing." <br />
"You're right, it's wearing, everything is wearing." <br />
We left together. People still stared at Cass on the streets. She was a beautiful woman, perhaps more beautiful than ever. We made it to my place and I opened a bottle of wine and we talked. With Cass and I, it always came easy. She talked a while and I would listen and then i would talk. Our conversation simply went along without strain. We seemed to discover secrets together. When we discovered a good one Cass would laugh that laugh- only the way she could. It was like joy out of fire. Through the talking we kissed and moved closer together. We became quite heated and decided to go to bed. It was then that Cass took off her high -necked dress and I saw it- the ugly jagged scar across her throat. <br />
It was large and thick. <br />
"God damn you, woman," I said from the bed, "god damn you, what have you done? <br />
"I tried it with a broken bottle one night. Don't you like me any more? Am I still beautiful?" <br />
I pulled her down on the bed and kissed her. She pushed away and laughed, "Some men pay me ten and I undress and they don't want to do it. I keep the ten. It's very funny." <br />
"Yes," I said, "I can't stop laughing... Cass, bitch, I love you...stop destroying yourself; you're the most alive woman I've ever met." <br />
We kissed again. Cass was crying without sound. I could feel the tears. The long black hair lay beside me like a flag of death. We enjoined and made slow and somber and wonderful love. In the morning Cass was up making breakfast. She seemed quite calm and happy. She was singing. I stayed in bed and enjoyed her happiness. Finally she came over and shook me, <br />
"Up, bastard! Throw some cold water on your face and pecker and come enjoy the feast!" <br />
I drove her to the beach that day. It was a weekday and not yet summer so things were splendidly deserted. Beach bums in rags slept on the lawns above the sand. Others sat on stone benches sharing a lone bottle. The gulls whirled about, mindless yet distracted. Old ladies in their 70's and 80's sat on the benches and discussed selling real estate left behind by husbands long ago killed by the pace and stupidity of survival. For it all, there was peace in the air and we walked about and stretched on the lawns and didn't say much. It simply felt good being together. I bought a couple of sandwiches, some chips and drinks and we sat on the sand eating. Then I held Cass and we slept together about an hour. It was somehow better than lovemaking. There was flowing together without tension. When we awakened we drove back to my place and I cooked a dinner. After dinner I suggested to Cass that we shack together. She waited a long time, looking at me, then she slowly said, "No." I drove her back to the bar, bought her a drink and walked out. I found a job as a parker in a factory the next day and the rest of the week went to working. I was too tired to get about much but that Friday night I did get to the West End Bar. I sat and waited for Cass. Hours went by . After I was fairly drunk the bartender said to me, "I'm sorry about your girlfriend." <br />
"What is it?" I asked. <br />
"I'm sorry, didn't you know?" <br />
"No." <br />
"Suicide. She was buried yesterday." <br />
"Buried?" I asked. It seemed as though she would walk through the doorway at any moment. How could she be gone? <br />
"Her sisters buried her." <br />
"A suicide? Mind telling me how?" <br />
"She cut her throat." <br />
"I see. Give me another drink." <br />
I drank until closing time. Cass was the most beautiful of 5 sisters, the most beautiful in town. I managed to drive to my place and I kept thinking, I should have insisted she stay with me instead of accepting that "no." Everything about her had indicated that she had cared. I simply had been too offhand about it, lazy, too unconcerned. I deserved my death and hers. I was a dog. No, why blame the dogs? I got up and found a bottle of wine and drank from it heavily. Cass the most beautiful girl in town was dead at 20. Outside somebody honked their automobile horn. They were very loud and persistent. I sat the bottle down and screamed out: "GOD DAMN YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH ,SHUT UP!" The night kept coming and there was nothing I could do. Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-675936181366569862014-05-23T14:08:00.002-07:002014-07-05T19:50:38.651-07:00Worlds Most Eccentric Famous People <div style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: medium; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eccentricity. We all know it when we see it. Chances are high that some of you reading this are eccentric. Everyone loves an eccentric. I relate to myself as an eccentric now that people have referred to me as one. Eccentrics tend to be cheerful souls who rarely seek psychological treatment. They tend to obsess about things, and are comfortable being a black sheep among the herds of white sheep. It is quite difficult to label an eccentric in modern day society because many people pretend to be something they are not,. If you eat sleep and breathe eccentricity that is what shall surely define you an eccentric. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Greek Mathematician who came up with the Pythagorean theorem came up with his own religion. Pythagoras' religion had two primary tenets: souls are reincarnated, and beans are evil. Not symbolic beans, or supernatural beans, but just plain, edible beansâŚ. Are evil?!? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pythagoras' clique had some more logical rules, such as vegetarianism and nonviolence, but he tended to break those. The vegetarianism rules were bent when, upon discovering his famous theorem, he celebrated by slaughtering an ox. His message of nonaggression suffered greatly from his dying in a fight. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michelangelo had a major issue with personal hygeine. Not only did he bathe "very rarely" (by 15th century Italian standards, no less LOL), he rarely changed clothes and slept in his shoes. His assistant once complained that, "He has sometimes gone so long without taking his shoes off that then the skin came away, like a snake's, with the boots." That sort of thing has caused some to say that maybe he suffered from autism. He showed all of the signs, including struggling with social interactions (though it probably didn't help that he smelled RANK). He would rarely speak to others, he hated doing so, and he had a tendency to end a conversation abruptly by walking away. When his brother died, Michelangelo skipped the funeral. His autism speculations may be the cause of what made him focus on his work obsessively, to the sacrifice of absolutely everything else in his life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simeon Ellerton lived in the 18th century and was a fitness fanatic. Because he loved to walk long distances, he acted as a courier for the locals. On his many journeys he would gather up stones from the roadside and carry them on his head. His goal was to gather sufficient stones to build his own house. Eventually he had enough stones and he made a little cottage for himself. Having spent so many years carrying extra weight, he felt uncomfortable without it, so for the rest of his life he walked around with a bag of stones on his head.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">⢠Once Dr. Spooner raised a toast to Her Royal Highness, Queen Victoria, and proclaimed: "Three cheers for our queer old dean!" </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">⢠During World War I he reassured his students, "When our boys come home from France, we will have the hags flung out." ⢠On another occasion, he lionized Britain's farmers as "ye noble tons of soil." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">⢠We learn of these speech errors from the notes of his students, which they generously shared by publishing them. They probably made most if not all of them up themselves. This one was probably a compilation of several others. Dr. Spooner is supposed to have chastised one of his students thus: "You have hissed all the mystery lectures, I saw you fight that liar behind the gymnasium, and, in short, you have tasted the whole worm." </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Betsey is a fashion designer best known for her eccentric and whimsical designs. Many will say that the modern eccentric lady shall be fashioned in Betsey Johnsonâs traditional tutu Prom dress. She once described her style as a formula: "Take a leotard and add a skirt." She says that she spends $20,000 a year on hair extensions and apparently dyes her hair everyday. When appearing on a talk show at age 70, she entered the stage by doing a cartwheel. In fact when entering or exiting the runway at every single one of her fashion shows it done by that infamous Cartwheel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He has many HILARIOUS moments in interviews which portray his eccentric side including the following: </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On whether there was a "Normal Peter" and "Stage Peter": </span></b><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"When I go onstage, I do have to access that part of my personality. But it's really funny, like, going food shopping and being recognized by fans. And of course, Iâm taking toilet paper off the rack when they come over. Iâm like, 'Iâm sorry. I (defecate), too.' I love to see peopleâs reactions. Weâre just 'humanzees.' When people see something different, theyâre stunned. You know, like a stunned George Bush staring with his mouth open? And then people will laugh at things that are different. You know why youâre laughing? Because Iâm a threat to you. Thatâs why youâre laughing. Because every time you laugh, you kick the reaper in the (scrotum). So keep laughing. Because I am the reaper. I am the prophet of doom." </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "If you drink two-week-old milk and you have vomit breathâŚÂ oh man, they love it. I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see peopleâs reaction. The thing is, I can do anything I want, virtually, within reason, just to see peopleâs reaction. ... People laugh at me because I get in the shopping cart and push myself down the aisle, like, knocking over cereals. People are laughing at me. Then I pull over and Iâm like (in lowered voice), 'The day will come when you will never laugh again.' And then I go look at pork chops. 'Whattaya mean theyâre $10.99 a pound?' Sometimes, I just buy stuff just to see peopleâs reactions. Because everybody looks in everyone elseâs carts. If youâre buying low-fat yogurt and 100 boxes of tampons, it gains a little bit of attention." </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "I was thinking about bleaching my hair white to look like the Winter Warlock, and to put green streaks in it. But all these hairdressers were like, 'Oh, youâre hairâs going to fall out!' Iâm like, 'Iâm dead already! What do I have to lose?' The hair on my head is a wig, anyway. I just thought it would be really cool. Iâm, like, 445 years old now. I donât feel my age. To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, youâre like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, Iâm going to have to stop doing this. Itâs gonna look ridiculous. I donât wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old. Thereâs this great thing: If you take a Now Or Later (brand) taffy, and you push it onto your gums, and you take peanuts and push them into the taffy, it looks like 'baked bean' teeth. The girls love it." </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On November 21, 2011, an oak tree was planted in Prospect Park to commemorate Steele.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last eccentric character of this post is the Lady GaGa. I sometimes think she is the real deal eccentric. A grade-A, not-from-this-planet, non-conforming, Kermit dress-wearing, eccentric. Many will never EVER forget her infamous Meat dress.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of her antics may be just a stage presence, but I think she is eccentric enough to make this list. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">⢠Rotating on a giant barbeque spit on stage. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">⢠Being vomited on by Millie Brown while on stage </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">⢠Wearing lampshades in public </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you find that you identify as an eccentric, you should OWN your personality. Always remember that while there will be those who reject you and make fun of your antics, itâs truly not your problem, its THEIR problem. If you choose to march your own beat, you are doing yourself a favor and will stride full speed towards self awareness and happiness. </span></div>
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</span>Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-52606966914229801052014-05-15T14:03:00.001-07:002014-05-15T14:23:16.649-07:00The Wolf and the Raven<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Very few mammals have mutual relationships with other animals. One of the few exceptions is the Raven and the Wolf. Ravens are sometimes known as "wolf-birds" because they form social attachments to wolves. Where there are wolves, there are often ravens that follow wolves; to grab their leftovers from a hunt, or to tease the wolves. They play with the wolves by diving at them and then speeding away or pecking their tails to try to get the wolves to chase them. The wolf and the raven have a complex relationship that is many thousands of years old. </div>
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Although the wolf had been missing from Yellowstone since the 1940's, the raven had not forgotten the wolf and what their relationship meant for both of them. With the reintroduction of the wolf into Yellowstone National Park, the old ways are once again practiced by both. Wolves and ravens have long been connected in folklore and fact. The Nordic God Odin is often represented sitting on his throne, flanked by his two wolves Geri and Freki and two ravens Huggin and Munin. Tales of hunting interaction involving wolves, ravens and humans figure prominently in the storytelling of Tlingit and Inuit, Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, with the ravens appearing as form-changing wise guys and tricksters, taking advantage of both humans and wolves. </div>
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Ravens are possibly the most intelligent birds, based on their omnivorous compliance to almost any environment, their fascination with colorful toys and glittery objects, their use of natural tools, and their diverse range of sounds and vocalizations. Wherever wolves hunt, ravens are usually present, scavenging prey and sometimes leading wolves to potential prey or to carcasses too tough for even the ravens' heavy sharp beaks to pierce. Ravens not only scavenge wolf kills, but steal up to one third of a carcass by continually carrying away chunks of meat and hiding them both from the wolves and their fellow ravens. </div>
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In several studies conducted at Yellowstone National Park where carcasses were randomly left for ravens, it showed them to be initially cautious, waiting for other ravens or other scavengers to approach first. However, when following a wolf pack they usually began feeding immediately after and sometimes alongside the wolves. In "Wolves and Men", Barry Lopez wrote: "The wolf seems to have few relationships with other animals that could be termed purely social, though he apparently takes pleasure in the company of ravens. The raven, with a range almost as extensive as the wolf's, one that even includes the tundra, commonly follows hunting wolves to feed on the remains of a kill." Some zoologists speculate that the raven's relationship with wolves may be because of their psychological make-up. </div>
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Dr. L. David Mech wrote in "The Wolf: The Ecology and Behaviour of an Endangered Species": "It appears that the wolf and the raven have reached an adjustment in their relationships such that each creature is rewarded in some way by the presence of the other and that each is fully aware of the other's capabilities. Both species are extremely social, so they must possess the psychological mechanisms necessary for forming social attachments. Perhaps in some way individuals of each species have included members of the other in their social group and have formed bonds with them." In "Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds," zoologist Bernd Heinrich has suggested a basis for this association. Ravens lead wolves to their prey, alert them to dangers, and are rewarded by sharing the spoils. </div>
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Bernd Heinrich in "Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds" wrote: "Ravens can be attracted to wolf howls. The wolves' howls before they go on a hunt, and it is a signal that the birds learn to heed. Conversely, wolves may respond to certain raven vocalizations or behavior that indicate prey. The raven-wolf association may be close to a symbiosis that benefits the wolves and ravens alike. At a kill site, the birds are more suspicious and alert than wolves. The birds serve the wolves as extra eyes and ears." </div>
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<u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">The Artist Poet: </span></b><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;"><b>Don Blanding</b></span></span></span></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Although Don Blanding tried very hard to have an aura of the "Lover Poet"; Don fought in 2
World Wars and used his fame for many charities, He also kept
homes or rentals in the Hawaiian islands, Portland, New Mexico,
Honolulu, and Hollywood.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">It
was said that he had a female friend in every exotic place,
spoke many languages and was a spy for many different countries. He was
an artist and drew romantic pictures of every visit he made and then
wrote poems to follow the pictures. These picture poem books sold like
candy.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ifu3i1ajsKU/UzQrjtNKI0I/AAAAAAAAAik/-DcJKI3-Hnw/s1600/BLANDING_WALK_ALONE.165130136.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ifu3i1ajsKU/UzQrjtNKI0I/AAAAAAAAAik/-DcJKI3-Hnw/s1600/BLANDING_WALK_ALONE.165130136.jpg" height="400" width="298" /></a></span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #800040;"><b><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/leaves.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Leaves
from a Grass-House</i></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> - 1923<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/loot.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Paradise Loot</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1925</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />
<a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/flowers.htm">Flowers of the Rainbow</a></i></span> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1926<br />
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/virgin.htm">The Virgin of Waikiki</a> </i></span>- <span style="font-size: x-small;">1926<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/house.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Vagabond's House</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1928<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/hulamoon.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Hula Moons</i></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">
- 1930<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/senses.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Songs of the Seven Senses</i></span></a> -
<span style="font-size: x-small;">1931<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/stowaway.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Stowaways in Paradise</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1931<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/dream.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Let Us Dream</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1933<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/memory.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Memory Room</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1935<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/restroad.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Rest of the Road</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1937<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/drifters.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Drifter's Gold</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1939<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/floriday.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Floridays</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1941<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/pilot.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Pilot Bails Out</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1943<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/today.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Today is Here</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1946<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/mostly.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Mostly California</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1948<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/grand.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>A Grand Time Living</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1950<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/joy.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Joy is an Inside Job</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1953<br />
</span><a href="http://www.don-blanding.com/hawaii.htm"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Hawaii Says Aloha</i></span></a> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">1955<br />
</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>No Strings on Tomorrow</i></span> - <span style="font-size: x-small;">Unpublished</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">That when tomorrow makes today a yesterday,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">I will have woven into the fabric of my life</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some gay design,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some patch of Color,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bright to please the eye</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Relive all the joys and pains</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Of of all my well lived yesterdays.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">West
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There.....and east of the dawn</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">North the arctic runs my yard</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">South to the pole runs my lawn</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fabulous cities are my loot,</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Queens of the world mine to wed,</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Couches of kings are my bed.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">All that I see is mine to keep,</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Foolish......this fancy seems</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But I am rich with the wealth of sight</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And the coin of my realm is dreams.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
handful of memories</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
small cup of sorrow.</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
flagon of happiness</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
faith in tomorrow.</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
measure of taking</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
measure of giving,</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
curious jumble</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This
business of living</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">When I
have a house.....as I sometimes may,</span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I suit my fancy with it in every way.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">My
grass house stands by the open sea,</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On a
bit of beach that belongs to me.</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And I
paid.... but don't remember the price</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For
this my small acre of paradise.</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
great southern cross hangs nightly over my door,</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And
the moonlight throws silver across the floor</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">While
the surf makes thunder along the beach</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And
the rainbows end is always</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Within
my reach.</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14.0pt;">DAWN IN THE ISLANDS</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffcc00; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Black
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14.0pt;">FLOWERS OF THE RAINBOW</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier;">Fire Fly</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We saw
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Glimmering,
fitfully,</span></span></b></b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">like a
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Oh
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
caught it and brought it, you took it and sighed</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As you
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We had
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
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<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But I
sighed, remembering another night the fire fly flied,</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Me, wondering
how long it will be until you too wail,</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Our
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">A clear October day with all the world <br />
A blaze of gold where frost had touched the leaves,<br />
The goldenrod's tall scepters by the fence,<br />
The harvest's gold in heaps and stacks and sheaves.<br />
My eyes were gladdened by the friendly sun,<br />
My thoughts were gay as melodies of birds,<br />
I walked along the road, while in my heart<br />
Was golden song that sought to find the words.<br />
Some thought... I can't recall it... broke the spell,<br />
Some memory with hate and hurt imbued,<br />
Rose up like fog to gray the radiant scene<br />
While in my heart dark distillations brewed.<br />
My swinging stride slowed to a dragging plod,<br />
My pleasant dreams and happy musings fled.<br />
The world itself was golden as before<br />
Until my thoughts had turned that gold to lead.<br />
I had reversed the Midas touch of old.<br />
I practice now to turn dull lead to gold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">We are
the restless ones....</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Who walk alone.....</span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;">Don would stay with friends who lived all over the world, and then leave in
the middle of the night without a warning. As a "thank you note" he would leave an entire
bathroom wall covered with his romantic exotic island adventures in art.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;">He
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his life style to go to hell, all while being</span><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;"> impeccably dressed.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;">Don said he was in "Vagabondage" to roam and wine and dine the
mysterious places and woman of this world. The movie "Casablanca" and its main star "Rick" played by Humphrey Bogart was
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;">It is said Don Blanding went to bed at 3:30am and rose at 11:30am as a life style. At these quiet times, living around the world in exotic places, he drew romantic art and wrote poems like the following below....</span></span></span></b><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b>A Thousand Lives </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">I know I've lived a
thousand lusty lives</span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">I've known all
passions, griefs, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">And joys that nimble man contrives</span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">To give the </span><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">rhythms
of his days a richly varied range</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">I've walked the the
road, a Vagabond,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;"> through endless time</span></span><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;"> and change.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">Two ways my restless
feet have sought, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">two trails that are really one, my feet have trod.</span></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">The flowered path to
beauty's shrine, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;">The weary climb to God.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Somehow</span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">I've tried for many an hour and minute</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">To
think of this world without me in it. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">I
can't imagine a new-born day</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">Without
me here . . . somehow . . . some way.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">I cannot
think of autumn's flare</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">Without
me here . . . alive . . . aware. </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">I
can't imagine a dawn in spring</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">Without
my heart awakening.</span></i><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">These
treasured days will come and go</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">At
swifter pace . . . but his I know . . .</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">I
have no fear . . . I have no dread</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">Of
that marked day that lies ahead.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-style: normal;">My
flesh will turn to ash and clay</span></i></span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;">But I'll be here . . . . </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;">Somehow......Someway </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">DREAMER</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I don't suppose I'll ever see</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A wood fairy slipping down from her tree</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nor hear the pulsing pipes of pan</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></a></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Although at times I swear I can.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></a></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Or see the moon nymphâs dance at night</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And yet perhaps ...I might.</span></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></a></span><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></a></span><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I watch the waves break on the rocks</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></a><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And in between the thunder shocks</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></a></span><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I think that I can almost hear</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></a><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The mermaid sirens singing sweet and clear.</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></a></span><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I don't suppose I'll ever see</span></span></b></span></span></div>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></a><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">These things that mean so very much to me.</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></a><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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</span></a><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But if I watch by night, by day</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></a><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You cannot tell</span></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 18.0pt;">Song of the Seven Senses</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With seven flowery chains we two are held, </span></i><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">With seven strands of sensuous delight, </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Together through this madly wondrous night.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I love my bonds, more firmly will I weld</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Each fragile link into another chain.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And if it breaks Iâll fasten it again.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The sight of you is gladness to my eyes;</span></i><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The fragrance of your hair is on my hands;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Your lipsâŚtheir constant touch my mouth demands;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I crave to hear the yielding of your sighs,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">To taste the wine of passion thrice distilled</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">From ecstasy before the cup is spilled.</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And that sixth sense which tells that Gods are near</span></i><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Will warn us of their envy. Our defense</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Will be the last delightful seventh sense, </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Gay nonsense as a mask to hide our fears.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And if we tire of our flowery strands, </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Dear, let us loose them then with friendly hands.</span></i></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier;">Passion</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Passion has been a rider
with spurs</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A glaze of ice and a
cloak of flame,</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
</span>
<br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A rocket that soared me
to the skies,</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
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</span>
<br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
</span>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And a will o' the wisp
through swamps of shame.</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Passion has been a wound
and a hurt,</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A joy, a song of
blinding light,</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Burning dawn and a
mystery,</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shackles and wings for
godlike flight.</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All of these it has been,
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cause when it wanes I
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I'll only sigh with a
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 18.0pt;">The Double Life</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">How very simple life would be</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If only there were two of me</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A Restless Me to drift and roam</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A Quiet Me to stay at home.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A Searching One to find his fill</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of varied skies and newfound thrill</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">While sane and homely things are done</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">By the domestic Other One.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And that's just where the trouble lies;</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There is a Restless Me that cries</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For chancy risks and changing scene,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For arctic blue and tropic green,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For deserts with their mystic spell,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For lusty fun and raising Hell,</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But shackled to that Restless Me</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">My Other Self rebelliously</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Resists the frantic urge to move.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It seeks the old familiar groove</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That habits make. It finds content</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With hearth and home -- dear imprisonment, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With candlelight and well-loved books</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And treasured loot in dusty nooks,</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With puttering and garden things</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And dreaming while a cricket sings</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And all the while the Restless One</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Insists on more exciting fun,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It wants to go with every tide,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No matter where...just for the ride.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Like yowling cats the two selves brawl</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Until I have no peace at all.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One eye turns to the forward track; </span></b><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The other eye looks sadly back.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I'm getting wall-eyed from the strain,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(It's tough to have an idle brain)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But One says "Stay" and One says "Go"</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And One says "Yes," and One says "No,"</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And One Self wants a home and wife</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And One Self craves the drifter's life.</span></b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Restless Fellow always wins</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I wish my folks had made me twins.</span></b></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Song
of the South Seas</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What is the lure of the South Seas' song</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">That
sings in the hearts of men so long?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
are its languorous charms</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">That
it reaches forth like the perfumed arms</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Of
amorous women to draw men near?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
is the song that rings so clear</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Through
the leagues of time overseas and lands</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">To
bring men back to the sun-drenched strands?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
is the song that will not be stilled, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
is the longing that can't be killed?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
is the lure of the South Seas' song</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Is
the song the sighing of winds in palms</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">As
sweet as ballads, as sad as psalms?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Is
the song the crooning of silken waves, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
sensuous music that makes men slaves</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">To
remembered joys of those velvet nights</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">That
were stained with passions and mad delights?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Is
the song a lyric of rainbow hues, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
gold of suns and the sea's glad blues</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hibiscus
blossoms that burn like flame</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
the hair of a girl with a flower's name?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
is the lure of the siren song</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">That
sings in the hearts of men so long?</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is more than flowers or lazy seas, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is more than passions and ecstasies, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is more than memories of amorous flesh, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is more than the web of the senses' mesh, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is more than beauty and less than peace, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is earth-Nirvana, a sweet surcease</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">From
the clang and clamor of cities' strife, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">From
the harsh demands of the Northland life, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">From
the drive and strain of the men who seek</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">For
money and fame and ambition's peak.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
tropic days are like golden sands</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">That
slip through the fingers of careless hands.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
dancing feet of the passing hours</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Are
muted with music and shod with flowers</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">While
the pulse that stirs in a listless vein</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Is
lulled to the swoon of a waltzing strain</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Time
is a flagon of drugged sweet wine</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">With
forgetfulness as an anodyne.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">That
is the lure of the South Sea's song</span></b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">That clings in the hearts of men so long</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">WHEN FRIENDSHIP FAILS</span></b></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
friendship fails and removes a mask</span></span></b></span><br />
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</span>
<br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Revealing
selfish lust that makes loyalty a task;</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
passions flames are buried to smoky ash</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
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</span>
<br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
joys a memory and laughterâs trash;</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
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</span>
<br />
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When
all thatâs clean and fine and best in you</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">
</span>
<div align="center" data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Is
slimed by one you love...... when all you do</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Is not
enough by half</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
life is a jest,</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
sorry one at that, when you detest</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
memory of all the tender things you gave in love</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And
wish by God you where dead,</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ah....then...so
the poets say</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Blue skies
are healing</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
find the babble of a brook appealing,</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Some
walk the night in starry contemplation,</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But
for me right now</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; color: #33cccc;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Such
things are darned poor consolation.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="line-height: normal;"> Ginger's Poem </span></span></span></b><br />
<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">White Ginger is like scented wings of moths<br />
Shell Ginger is a mermaid's dainty chain<br />
Torch Ginger is a staff of petal flame<br />
Burning, defiant of the quenching rain<br />
The Yellow Ginger yields a sweet perfume<br />
To catch and hold the heart in woven leis<br />
Red ginger is the warm blood of Hawaii<br />
Spilling its laughter through the tropic days.</span></span><br />
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of the sunset stands my house;<br />
There..and east of the dawn;<br />
North to the Arctic runs my yard;<br />
South to the Pole, my lawn;<br />
Seven seas are to sail my ships<br />
To the ends of the earth... beyond;<br />
Drifter's gold is for me to spend -<br />
For I am a vagabond.<br />
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Fabulous cities are mine to loot;<br />
Queens of the earth to wed;<br />
Fruits of the world are mine to eat;<br />
The couch of a king, my bed;<br />
All that I see is mine to keep;<br />
Foolish the fancy seems,<br />
But I am rich with the wealth of Sight'<br />
The coin of the realm of dreams...</span><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sentries by day with bayonets on guard,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Prophets by night in attitudes of prayer;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But when the dusk spreads veils across the hard </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sharp outlines of the land they hear an air,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Piped on a Pan-ic flute, unseen and far,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">An echo from and older, gayer land; </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">They catch the winking of an elfin star </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And dance a quaint arthritic saraband.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bird of
Evil Flame</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am the ageless Bird of Evil Flame.</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Eve knew my name.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With bitter tears she tried to quench the spark</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of envy in her son's bewildered heart. The dark</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fumes, stirred by my swift subtle wings, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Clouded his eyes with acrid billowing</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Until the tragic flood.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of brother's blood</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Left its indelible stain . . . </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Mark of Cain.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am the Great Incendiary; </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">My swift flights carry</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The ember to the flame, the flame to burning brand</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Until a fiery scourge consumes a stricken land.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I feed ambition's fire, On its red raging pyre</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A nation's honor burns to smoldering ash,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">My pinions lash</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The coals of racial hatreds into cruel</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tyrannies of blood-lust, spilling the fuel</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of lies, the quick inflaming dust</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Until the flames that flicker through the crust</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Of Hell are flaring in each race and nation.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am the Endless Conflagration.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am the sullen cinder, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The inflammable tinder; </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am not quenched, but fed, by tears.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">These years of war have been my greatest years.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Peace thinks she buried me . . . the grave is shallow.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The clods that weight my wings are waiting, fallow, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For seeds of flame sown by my fertile breath.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The seeds are fear and greed, the harvest Death.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am Delirium, the Insidious Fever, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am the ultimate Deceiver, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am the ageless Bird of Evil Flame.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You know my name.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now
that the shadows of twilight are </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">stealing into the corners of my room, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I'll
open the covers of my favorites books, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">then if I sit very still and watch </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">through the weaving magic of my cigarette smoke, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I may see these well loved characters </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">stepping quietly forth from the thumbed pages, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Huck Finn, or Samuel, Galahad,
Eve and her Adam, and Moby Dick.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff99; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">One by
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff99; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> until I turn on the lights of evening, </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><span data-mce-style="color: #ffff99; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The arch enemy of dreams.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">But If
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> the echoes of their laughter </span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">and the faint murmur of their voices in and by the shelves.</span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span>Staid people say that Pan is dead<br />
But they are wrong. His shaggy head<br />
I saw but yesterday at noon,<br />
And once before when shone the moon<br />
Across Manoa Valley where The ginger blooms. <br />
The evening air<br />
Was stillâŚso still it made me fear<br />
That if I shivered He might hear.<br />
I waited while a silver mist<br />
Skimmed down the sky. A moonbeam kissed<br />
The gauzy veil. Pan looked around<br />
And piped. A magic arch of sound<br />
Curved out upon the misty airâŚ<br />
A lunar rainbow shimmered there.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 18.0pt;">When If Ever</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">When blood is water; when the call of spring</span></i><span style="font-family: Courier; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Falls dully on my ears; when everything</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Is just one heavy monotone of gray</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">And dawnâs a torture, meaning "hereâs a day</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">To live in weary waiting for the night</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">With sleep to blot all beauty from my sight";</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When tears and love and laughter are the same;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When lifeâs a task and not a joyous game;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When livingâs but a race without a goal;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When I am old in body, heart, and soul;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When all I know as me in me has fled;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Then, and then only, will I say, "God Pan is dead!"</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal;">So Clever</span></b></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Vagabond's
House</span></b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">When
I have a house . . . as I sometime may . . . </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I'll
suit my fancy in every way.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I'll
fill it with things that have caught my eye</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In
drifting from Iceland to Molokai.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It
won't be correct or in period style, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But
. . . oh, I've thought for a long, long while</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Of
all the corners and all the nooks, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Of
all the bookshelves and all the books, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
great big table, the deep soft chairs, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
the Chinese rug at the foot of the stairs </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(It's
an old, old rug from far Chow Wan</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
a Chinese princess once walked on).</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My
house will stand on the side of a hill</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">By
a slow, broad river, deep and still, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
a tall lone pine on guard nearby</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Where
the birds can sing and the storm winds cry.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
flagstone walk, with lazy curves,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Will
lead to the door where a Pan's head serves</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As
a knocker there, like a vibrant drum,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
let me know that a friend has come,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
the door will squeak as I swing it wide</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
welcome you to the cheer inside.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
Iâll have good friends who can sit and chat</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Or
simply sit, when it comes to that, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">By
the fireplace where the fir logs blaze</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
the smoke rolls up in a weaving haze.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Iâll
want a wood box, scarred and rough</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
leaves and bark and odorous stuff, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Like
resinous knots and cones and gums, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
toss on the flames when winter comes.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
I hope a cricket will stay around, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
I love its creaky lonesome sound.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thereâll
be driftwood powder to burn on logs</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
a shaggy rug for a couple of dogs, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Boreas,
winner of prize and cup, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
Mickey, a lovable gutter-pup.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thoroughbreds,
both of them, right from the start, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">One
by breeding, the other by heart.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There
are times when only a dog will do</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
a friend . . . when youâre beaten, sick and blue</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
the worldâs all wrong, for he wonât care</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">If
you break and cry, or grouch and swear,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
heâll let you know as he licks your hands</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
heâs downright sorry . . . and understands.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Iâll
have on a bench a box inlaid</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
dragon-plaques of milk white jade</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
hold my own particular brand</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Of
cigarettes brought from the Pharaohs land,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
a cloisonnĂŠ bowl on a lizards skin</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
flick my cigarette ashes in.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
a squat blue jar for a certain blend</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Of
pipe tobacco, Iâll have to send</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
a quaint old chap I chanced to meet</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In
his fusty shop on a London street.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
long low shelf of teak will hold</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My
best-loved books in leather and gold, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">While
magazines lie on a bowlegged stand, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In
a polyglot mixture close at hand.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Iâll
have on a table; a rich brocade</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
I think the pixies must have made, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
the dull gold thread on blues and grays</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Weaves
a pattern of Puck . . . the Magic Maze.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">On
the mantelpiece Iâll have a place</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
a little mud god with a painted face</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
was given to me . . . oh, long ago,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">By
a Philippine maid in Olangapo.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Then
just in range of a lazy reach . . .</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
bulging bowl of Indian beech</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Will
brim with things that are good to munch,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Hickory
nuts to crack and crunch;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Big
fat raisins and sun-dried dates,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
curious fruits from the Malay Straits;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Maple
sugar and cookies brown</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
good hard cider to wash them down;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Wine-sap
apples, pick of the crop,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
ears of corn to shell and pop</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
plenty of butter and lots of salt . . .</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">If
you donât get filled itâs not my fault.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
there where the shadows fall Iâve planned</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
have a magnificent concert-grand</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
polished wood and ivory keys,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
wild discordant rhapsodies,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
wailing minor Hindu songs,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
Chinese chants and clanging gongs,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
flippant jazz, and for lullabies,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
moody things that Iâll improvise</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
play the long gray dusk away</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
bid goodbye to another day.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Pictures
. . . I think Iâll have but three:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">One,
in oil, of a windswept sea</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
the flying scud and the waves whipped white . . . </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(I
know the chap who can paint it right)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In
lapis blue and deep jade green . . .</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
great big smashing fine marine</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thatâll
make you feel the spray in your face.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Iâll
hang it over my fireplace.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
second picture . . . a freakish thing . . . </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Is
gaudy and bright as a macawâs wing, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">An
impressionist smear called âSinâ, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
nude on a striped zebra skin</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">By
a Danish girl I knew in France.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My
respectable friends will look askance</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">At
the purple eyes and the scarlet hair, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">At
the pallid face and the evil stare</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Of
the sinister, beautiful vampire face.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I
shouldnât have it about the place,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But
I like . . . while I loathe . . . the beastly thing,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
thatâs the way that one feels about sin.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
picture I love the best of all</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Will
hang alone on my study wall</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Where
the sunsetâs glow and the moonâs cold gleam</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Will
fall on the face, and make it seem</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
the eyes in the picture are meeting mine, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
the lips are curved in the fine sweet line</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Of
that wistful, tender, provocative smile</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
has stirred my heart for a wondrous while.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Itâs
a sketch of the girl who loved too well</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
tie me down to that bit of Hell</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
a drifter knows when he knows heâs held</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">By
the soft, strong chains that passions weld.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It
was best for her and for me, I know,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
she measured my love and bade me go</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
we both have our great illusion yet</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Unsoiled,
unspoiled by vain regret.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I
wonât deny that it makes me sad</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
know that Iâve missed what I might have had.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Itâs
a clean sweet memory, quite apart, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
Iâve been faithful . . . in my heart.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">All
these things I will have about,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Not
a one could I do without;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Cedar
and sandalwood chips to burn</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In
the tarnished bowl of a copper urn;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
paperweight of meteorite</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
seared and scorched the sky one night,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A Moro
Kris . . . my paper knife . . .</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Once
slit the throat of a Rajahâs wife.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
beams of my house will be fragrant wood</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
once in a teeming jungle stood</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As
a proud tall tree where the leopards crouched</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
the parrots screamed and the black men crouched.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
roof must have a rakish dip</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
shadowy eaves where the rain can drip</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In
a damp persistent tuneful way; </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Itâs
a cheerful sound on a gloomy day.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
I want a shingle loose somewhere</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
wail like a banshee in despair</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">When
the wind is high and the storm-gods race </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
I am snug by my fireplace.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I
hope a couple of birds will nest</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Around
the house. Iâll do my best</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
make them happy, so every year</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Theyâll
raise their brood of fledglings here.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">When
I have my house Iâll suit myself</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
have what I call my âCondiment Shelfâ,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Filled
with all manner of herbs and spice,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Curry
and chutney for meats and rice,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Pots
and bottles of extracts rare . . . </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Onions
and garlic will both be there . . .</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
soya and saffron and savory goo</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
stuff that Iâll buy from an old Hindu;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ginger
with syrup in quaint stone jars;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Almonds
and figs in tinseled bars;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Astrakhan
caviar, highly prized,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
citron and orange peel crystallized;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Anchovy
paste and poha jam;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Basil
and chili and marjoram;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
flavors that come from Samarkand;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And,
hung with a string from a handy hook,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Will
be a dog-eared, well-thumbed book</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
is pasted full of recipes</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">From
France and Spain and the Caribbean;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Roots
and leaves and herbs to use</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
curious soups and odd ragouts.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Iâll
have a cook that Iâll name âOh Joyâ, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
sleek, fat, yellow-faced China boy</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Who
can roast a pig or mix a drink, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(You
canât improve on a slant-eyed Chink).</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">On
the gray-stone hearth thereâll be a mat</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
a scrappy, swaggering yellow cat</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
a war-scarred face from a hundred fights</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
neighborâs cats on moonlight nights.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
wise old Tom who can hold his own</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
make my dogs let him alone.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Iâll
have a window-seat broad and deep</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Where
I can sprawl to read or sleep,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
windows placed so I can turn</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
watch the sunsets blaze and burn</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Beyond
high peaks that scar the sky</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Like
bare white wolf-fangs that defy</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The
very gods. Iâll have a nook</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For
a savage idol that I took</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">From
a ruined temple in Peru, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
demon-chaser named Mang-Chu</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
guard my house by night and day</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
keep all evil things away.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Pewter
and bronze and hammered brass; </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Old
carved wood and gleaming glass; </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Candles
and polychrome candlesticks, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
peasant lamps with floating wicks; </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dragons
in silk on a Mandarin suit</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In
a chest that is filled with vagabond-loot.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">All
of the beautiful, useless things</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
a vagabondâs aimless drifting brings.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Then,
when my house is all complete</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Iâll
stretch me out on the window seat</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
a favorite book and a cigarette,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
a long cool drink that Oh Joy will get;</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
Iâll look about at my bachelor-nest</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">While
the sun goes zooming down the west,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
the hot gold light will fall on my face</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
make me think of some heathen place</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
Iâve failed to see . . . that Iâve missed some way . . . </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A
place that Iâd planned to find some day,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
Iâll feel the lure of it driving me.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Oh
damn! I know what the end will be </span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Iâll
go. And my house will fall away</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">While
the mice by night and the moths by day</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Will
nibble the covers off all my books, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
the spiders weave in the shadowed nooks.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
my dogs . . . Iâll see that they have a home</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">While
I follow the sun, while I drift and roam</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To
the ends of the earth like a chip on the stream, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Like
a straw on the wind, like a vagrant dream; </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And
the thought will strike with a swift sharp pain</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That
I probably never will build again</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This
house that Iâll have in some far day </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Well
. . . itâs just a dream house, anyway.</span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<br />Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-43032001578726402282013-06-28T13:04:00.002-07:002020-05-21T22:21:48.798-07:00A series of strange events... Paranormal?Here is an excerpt of one of my journals documenting some strange series of events that has happened within my life.
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A little background...
So I have always had very vivid dreams. Frequently I have astral projections, sometimes i have night terrors which always seem to be a premonition or symbolic of bad things to come. Also have experienced old Hag syndrome quite a few times, and 2 times in my life I have seen apparitions (yes ghosts). Ive had dreams in which people who have passed visit me and sent along little messages. For the record I don't take sedatives, do any drugs, I am not a loony brained girl either lol. I am actually very private and shy about this because I know people are quick to pass judgment or accuse me of not being honest. But I have always kept a record on things of this nature that I have experienced. Please read this with an open mind and know I am being 100% honest.
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So on March 28th 2012 I had one nightmare after another where I was waking up every hour scared and trembling.In the last nightmare, It was one of those where, while dreaming, I wake up in my bed thinking it is reality but I am actually still dreaming. I heard a noise coming from downstairs and sounded as if someone broke into my house and was coming up the stairs. when the burglar finally showed her face she had an ax in her hands, ready to swing right at me and she was just about to split my head open when I jolted awake. I don't know if my eyes were fuzzy or what but I definitely saw a sort of lighted shape of something that looked EXACTLY like an evil ghost of a man upside down hanging from my ceiling staring at the bed and it slowly disappeared. During this apparitions appearance I was paralyzed, once he disappeared i was able to move again and immediately woke up my bf to tell him and he held me. I could not fall back asleep, I was very disturbed.
This started one very disturbing week.
The day after that dream, the police found a deceased man next to my house. He was riding a bike, and fell out- maybe a heart attack or something of that sort. I was at work when this happened but my b.f woke up to the sound of sirens and he then called me and told me what happened. It deeply disturbed me. We didn't know who he was, and ever since that day I get such a creepy feeling when I walk to and from my car to my house. I will probably move because of this sad feeling I get crossing over where they found his body.
Since then me and my b.f have saved 2 dogs from killing each other. We happened to be driving past and see 2 pit bulls locked jaws with a frantic crowd surrounding them (i thought the lockjaw was a myth) they were bleeding profusely and had their jaws tight around their neck and face. I screamed at my bf to stop the car and my bf shouts to grab the dogs hind legs and they finally released. we look at each other crazy like we had the same disturbed feeling.
Yesterday we went to the park to enjoy the sunshine with my daughter.
On the highway home we are cruising along a 4 lane highway in the middle lane when I see this little (2 or 3) girl on the right side of me running down the driveway towards the highway. I scream out the window STOP RIGHT THERE and she paused right at the curb as my bf slams on the brakes and runs after her. A car speeds right past her. literally could have skimmed her nose that's how close. There were no adults around! Then her mom appears out of the garage and runs to grab her and points to the road saying you could have got killed. Bf gets back in the car looks at me, we both have chills running down our backs.
For some reason, my brain connects all these strange events in a sequence.
Does anyone out there have any feedback or think this is just strange coincidence? Anyone experience strange things of this nature?
This hanged man figure seems to be a forewarning of bad things to come, and we then just happened to be in the right place at the right time preventing the deaths of a child and of 2 dogs.
_________________________________________________________________________________ When I was around 12 years old I was laying in bed reading a book with a small light on, I looked at the doorway and saw my mom walk past into the next room and turn on the light. I called for her and got up and went into the room and there was no one there!!. When I searched the house I found her- She was all the way in the kitchen sitting down reading a magazine and smoking a cigarette. I remember telling her what happened and she told me I was just dreaming and to go back to bed. I was wide awake, 100% positive wide awake! and who else switched that light on?? That was one of my first abnormal experiences. LOL It always drives me crazy to think about that day.
Since then I have not seen any apparitions WHILE AWAKE until this last experience march 2012. But I have, since then, felt presences, positive and negative ones.
Ill now share some out of body experiences.
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One instance, the second I laid my head down on the pillow to go to sleep... what feels like my soul escaped thru my nose and I was watching myself sleep. I then noticed the blanket I appeared to be wearing was a green fuzzy blanket. I do not own one of those. The second I realized that, the blanket switched to the one I DID fall asleep with and my soul came crashing down back into my body.
Another instance... I felt my soul get stuck trying to get out of my body and I look and see my cat laying on my legs. I woke up immediately and yes, there he was, laying on my legs!
Actually one out of body experience I was traveling thru my town I was lost, I finally found my house and float into my room and I see a little girl standing against the wall. I fall back into my body and I then woke up bewildered.
Another time I fell asleep for what felt like 5 seconds and I heard high wailing sounds and felt someone beating on my back. I had trouble waking from that one. Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-4799426600983844352012-11-09T13:06:00.000-08:002012-11-09T13:07:09.435-08:00"Paper Menagerie" A beautiful short story! <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Paper Menagerie"</span></h4>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by Ken Liu</span></h6>
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">One of my
earliest memories starts with me sobbing. I refused to be soothed no matter
what Mom and Dad tried.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dad gave up and
left the bedroom, but Mom took me into the kitchen and sat me down at the
breakfast table.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"<i>Kan,
kan</i>," she said, as she pulled a sheet of wrapping paper from on top of
the fridge. For years, Mom carefully sliced open the wrappings around Christmas
gifts and saved them on top of the fridge in a thick stack.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">She set the
paper down, plain side facing up, and began to fold it. I stopped crying and
watched her, curious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">She turned the
paper over and folded it again. She pleated, packed, tucked, rolled, and
twisted until the paper disappeared between her cupped hands. Then she lifted
the folded-up paper packet to her mouth and blew into it, like a balloon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"<i>Kan</i>," she
said. "<i>Laohu.</i>" She put her hands down on the table and let go.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A little paper
tiger stood on the table, the size of two fists placed together. The skin of
the tiger was the pattern on the wrapping paper, white background with red
candy canes and green Christmas trees.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I reached out
to Mom's creation. Its tail twitched, and it pounced playfully at my finger.
"<i>Rawrr-sa</i>," it growled, the sound somewhere between a cat and
rustling newspapers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I laughed,
startled, and stroked its back with an index finger. The paper tiger vibrated
under my finger, purring.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"<i>Zhe</i>
<i>jiao zhezhi</i>," Mom said. <i>This is called origami</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I didn't know
this at the time, but Mom's kind was special. She breathed into them so that
they shared her breath, and thus moved with her life. This was her magic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dad had picked
Mom out of a catalog.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">One time, when
I was in high school, I asked Dad about the details. He was trying to get me to
speak to Mom again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">He had signed
up for the introduction service back in the spring of 1973. Flipping through
the pages steadily, he had spent no more than a few seconds on each page until
he saw the picture of Mom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I've never seen
this picture. Dad described it: Mom was sitting in a chair, her side to the
camera, wearing a tight green silk cheongsam. Her head was turned to the camera
so that her long black hair was draped artfully over her chest and shoulder.
She looked out at him with the eyes of a calm child.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"That was
the last page of the catalog I saw," he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The catalog
said she was eighteen, loved to dance, and spoke good English because she was
from Hong Kong. None of these facts turned out
to be true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">He wrote to
her, and the company passed their messages back and forth. Finally, he flew to Hong Kong to meet her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"The
people at the company had been writing her responses. She didn't know any
English other than 'hello' and 'goodbye.'"</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What kind of
woman puts herself into a catalog so that she can be bought?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> The high school me
thought I knew so much about everything. Contempt felt good, like wine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Instead of
storming into the office to demand his money back, he paid a waitress at the
hotel restaurant to translate for them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"She would
look at me, her eyes halfway between scared and hopeful, while I spoke. And
when the girl began translating what I said, she'd start to smile slowly."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">He flew back to
Connecticut
and began to apply for the papers for her to come to him. I was born a year
later, in the Year of the Tiger.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">At my request,
Mom also made a goat, a deer, and a water buffalo out of wrapping paper. They
would run around the living room while Laohu chased after them, growling. When
he caught them he would press down until the air went out of them and they
became just flat, folded-up pieces of paper. I would then have to blow into
them to re-inflate them so they could run around some more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sometimes, the
animals got into trouble. Once, the water buffalo jumped into a dish of soy
sauce on the table at dinner. (He wanted to wallow, like a real water buffalo.)
I picked him out quickly but the capillary action had already pulled the dark
liquid high up into his legs. The sauce-softened legs would not hold him up,
and he collapsed onto the table. I dried him out in the sun, but his legs
became crooked after that, and he ran around with a limp. Mom eventually
wrapped his legs in saran wrap so that he could wallow to his heart's content
(just not in soy sauce).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Also, Laohu
liked to pounce at sparrows when he and I played in the backyard. But one time,
a cornered bird struck back in desperation and tore his ear. He whimpered and
winced as I held him and Mom patched his ear together with tape. He avoided
birds after that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And then one
day, I saw a TV documentary about sharks and asked Mom for one of my own. She
made the shark, but he flapped about on the table unhappily. I filled the sink
with water, and put him in. He swam around and around happily. However, after a
while he became soggy and translucent, and slowly sank to the bottom, the folds
coming undone. I reached in to rescue him, and all I ended up with was a wet
piece of paper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Laohu put his
front paws together at the edge of the sink and rested his head on them. Ears
drooping, he made a low growl in his throat that made me feel guilty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom made a new
shark for me, this time out of tin foil. The shark lived happily in a large goldfish
bowl. Laohu and I liked to sit next to the bowl to watch the tin foil shark
chasing the goldfish, Laohu sticking his face up against the bowl on the other
side so that I saw his eyes, magnified to the size of coffee cups, staring at
me from across the bowl.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">When I was ten,
we moved to a new house across town. Two of the women neighbors came by to
welcome us. Dad served them drinks and then apologized for having to run off to
the utility company to straighten out the prior owner's bills. "Make
yourselves at home. My wife doesn't speak much English, so don't think she's
being rude for not talking to you."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">While I read in
the dining room, Mom unpacked in the kitchen. The neighbors conversed in the
living room, not trying to be particularly quiet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"He seems
like a normal enough man. Why did he do that?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Something
about the mixing never seems right. The child looks unfinished. Slanty eyes,
white face. A little monster."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Do you
think <i>he</i> can speak English?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The women
hushed. After a while they came into the dining room.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Hello
there! What's your name?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Jack,"
I said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"That
doesn't sound very Chinesey."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom came into
the dining room then. She smiled at the women. The three of them stood in a
triangle around me, smiling and nodding at each other, with nothing to say,
until Dad came back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mark, one of
the neighborhood boys, came over with his Star Wars action figures. Obi-Wan
Kenobi's lightsaber lit up and he could swing his arms and say, in a tinny
voice, "Use the Force!" I didn't think the figure looked much like
the real Obi-Wan at all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Together, we
watched him repeat this performance five times on the coffee table. "Can
he do anything else?" I asked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mark was
annoyed by my question. "Look at all the details," he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I looked at the
details. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mark was
disappointed by my response. "Show me your toys."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I didn't have
any toys except my paper menagerie. I brought Laohu out from my bedroom. By
then he was very worn, patched all over with tape and glue, evidence of the years
of repairs Mom and I had done on him. He was no longer as nimble and
sure-footed as before. I sat him down on the coffee table. I could hear the
skittering steps of the other animals behind in the hallway, timidly peeking
into the living room.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"<i>Xiao</i>
<i>laohu</i>," I said, and stopped. I switched to English. "This is
Tiger." Cautiously, Laohu strode up and purred at Mark, sniffing his
hands.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mark examined
the Christmas-wrap pattern of Laohu's skin. "That doesn't look like a
tiger at all. Your Mom makes toys for you from trash?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I had never
thought of Laohu as <i>trash</i>. But looking at him now, he was really just a
piece of wrapping paper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mark pushed
Obi-Wan's head again. The lightsaber flashed; he moved his arms up and down.
"Use the Force!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Laohu turned
and pounced, knocking the plastic figure off the table. It hit the floor and
broke, and Obi-Wan's head rolled under the couch. "<i>Rawwww</i>,"
Laohu laughed. I joined him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mark punched
me, hard. "This was very expensive! You can't even find it in the stores
now. It probably cost more than what your dad paid for your mom!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I stumbled and
fell to the floor. Laohu growled and leapt at Mark's face.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mark screamed,
more out of fear and surprise than pain. Laohu was only made of paper, after
all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mark grabbed
Laohu and his snarl was choked off as Mark crumpled him in his hand and tore
him in half. He balled up the two pieces of paper and threw them at me.
"Here's your stupid cheap Chinese garbage."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">After Mark
left, I spent a long time trying, without success, to tape together the pieces,
smooth out the paper, and follow the creases to refold Laohu. Slowly, the other
animals came into the living room and gathered around us, me and the torn
wrapping paper that used to be Laohu.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">My fight with
Mark didn't end there. Mark was popular at school. I never want to think again
about the two weeks that followed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I came home
that Friday at the end of the two weeks. "<i>Xuexiao</i> <i>hao ma?</i>"
Mom asked. I said nothing and went to the bathroom. I looked into the mirror. <i>I
look nothing like her, nothing.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">At dinner I
asked Dad, "Do I have a chink face?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dad put down
his chopsticks. Even though I had never told him what happened in school, he
seemed to understand. He closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
"No, you don't."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom looked at
Dad, not understanding. She looked back at me. "<i>Sha</i> <i>jiao</i>
chink<i>?</i>"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"English,"
I said. "Speak English."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">She tried.
"What happen?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I pushed the
chopsticks and the bowl before me away: stir-fried green peppers with
five-spice beef. "We should eat American food."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dad tried to
reason. "A lot of families cook Chinese sometimes."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"We are
not other families." I looked at him. <i>Other families don't have moms
who don't belong.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">He looked away.
And then he put a hand on Mom's shoulder. "I'll get you a cookbook."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom turned to
me. "<i>Bu haochi?</i>"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"English,"
I said, raising my voice. "Speak English."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom reached out
to touch my forehead, feeling for my temperature. "<i>Fashao</i> <i>la?</i>"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I brushed her
hand away. "I'm fine. Speak English!" I was shouting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Speak
English to him," Dad said to Mom. "You knew this was going to happen
some day. What did you expect?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom dropped her
hands to her side. She sat, looking from Dad to me, and back to Dad again. She
tried to speak, stopped, and tried again, and stopped again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"You have
to," Dad said. "I've been too easy on you. Jack needs to fit
in."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom looked at
him. "If I say 'love,' I feel here." She pointed to her lips.
"If I say '<i>ai,</i>' I feel here." She put her hand over her heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dad shook his
head. "You are in America."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom hunched
down in her seat, looking like the water buffalo when Laohu used to pounce on
him and squeeze the air of life out of him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"And I
want some real toys."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dad bought me a
full set of Star Wars action figures. I gave the Obi-Wan Kenobi to Mark.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I packed the
paper menagerie in a large shoebox and put it under the bed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The next
morning, the animals had escaped and took over their old favorite spots in my
room. I caught them all and put them back into the shoebox, taping the lid
shut. But the animals made so much noise in the box that I finally shoved it
into the corner of the attic as far away from my room as possible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">If Mom spoke to
me in Chinese, I refused to answer her. After a while, she tried to use more
English. But her accent and broken sentences embarrassed me. I tried to correct
her. Eventually, she stopped speaking altogether if I were around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom began to
mime things if she needed to let me know something. She tried to hug me the way
she saw American mothers did on TV. I thought her movements exaggerated,
uncertain, ridiculous, graceless. She saw that I was annoyed, and stopped.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"You
shouldn't treat your mother that way," Dad said. But he couldn't look me
in the eyes as he said it. Deep in his heart, he must have realized that it was
a mistake to have tried to take a Chinese peasant girl and expect her to fit in
the suburbs of Connecticut.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom learned to
cook American style. I played video games and studied French.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Every once in a
while, I would see her at the kitchen table studying the plain side of a sheet
of wrapping paper. Later a new paper animal would appear on my nightstand and
try to cuddle up to me. I caught them, squeezed them until the air went out of
them, and then stuffed them away in the box in the attic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom finally
stopped making the animals when I was in high school. By then her English was
much better, but I was already at that age when I wasn't interested in what she
had to say whatever language she used.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sometimes, when
I came home and saw her tiny body busily moving about in the kitchen, singing a
song in Chinese to herself, it was hard for me to believe that she gave birth
to me. We had nothing in common. She might as well be from the moon. I would
hurry on to my room, where I could continue my all-American pursuit of
happiness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dad and I
stood, one on each side of Mom, lying on the hospital bed. She was not yet even
forty, but she looked much older.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For years she
had refused to go to the doctor for the pain inside her that she said was no
big deal. By the time an ambulance finally carried her in, the cancer had
spread far beyond the limits of surgery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">My mind was not
in the room. It was the middle of the on-campus recruiting season, and I was
focused on resumes, transcripts, and strategically constructed interview
schedules. I schemed about how to lie to the corporate recruiters most
effectively so that they'll offer to buy me. I understood intellectually that
it was terrible to think about this while your mother lay dying. But that
understanding didn't mean I could change how I felt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">She was
conscious. Dad held her left hand with both of his own. He leaned down to kiss
her forehead. He seemed weak and old in a way that startled me. I realized that
I knew almost as little about Dad as I did about Mom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Mom smiled at
him. "I'm fine."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">She turned to
me, still smiling. "I know you have to go back to school." Her voice
was very weak and it was difficult to hear her over the hum of the machines
hooked up to her. "Go. Don't worry about me. This is not a big deal. Just
do well in school."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I reached out
to touch her hand, because I thought that was what I was supposed to do. I was
relieved. I was already thinking about the flight back, and the bright California sunshine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">She whispered
something to Dad. He nodded and left the room.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Jack, if
â " she was caught up in a fit of coughing, and could not speak for some
time. "If I don't make it, don't be too sad and hurt your health. Focus on
your life. Just keep that box you have in the attic with you, and every year,
at <i>Qingming</i>, just take it out and think about me. I'll be with you
always."</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Qingming</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> was the Chinese
Festival for the Dead. When I was very young, Mom used to write a letter on <i>Qingming</i>
to her dead parents back in China,
telling them the good news about the past year of her life in America. She
would read the letter out loud to me, and if I made a comment about something,
she would write it down in the letter too. Then she would fold the letter into
a paper crane, and release it, facing west. We would then watch, as the crane
flapped its crisp wings on its long journey west, towards the Pacific, towards China, towards
the graves of Mom's family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It had been
many years since I last did that with her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"I don't
know anything about the Chinese calendar," I said. "Just rest, Mom.
"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Just keep
the box with you and open it once in a while. Just open â " she began to
cough again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"It's
okay, Mom." I stroked her arm awkwardly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"<i>Haizi,
mama ai ni</i> â " Her cough took over again. An image from years ago
flashed into my memory: Mom saying <i>ai</i> and then putting her hand over her
heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Alright,
Mom. Stop talking."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dad came back,
and I said that I needed to get to the airport early because I didn't want to
miss my flight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">She died when
my plane was somewhere over Nevada.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Dad aged rapidly
after Mom died. The house was too big for him and had to be sold. My girlfriend
Susan and I went to help him pack and clean the place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Susan found the
shoebox in the attic. The paper menagerie, hidden in the uninsulated darkness
of the attic for so long, had become brittle and the bright wrapping paper
patterns had faded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"I've
never seen origami like this," Susan said. "Your Mom was an amazing
artist."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The paper
animals did not move. Perhaps whatever magic had animated them stopped when Mom
died. Or perhaps I had only imagined that these paper constructions were once
alive. The memory of children could not be trusted.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It was the
first weekend in April, two years after Mom's death. Susan was out of town on
one of her endless trips as a management consultant and I was home, lazily
flipping through the TV channels.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I paused at a
documentary about sharks. Suddenly I saw, in my mind, Mom's hands, as they
folded and refolded tin foil to make a shark for me, while Laohu and I watched.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A rustle. I
looked up and saw that a ball of wrapping paper and torn tape was on the floor
next to the bookshelf. I walked over to pick it up for the trash.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The ball of
paper shifted, unfurled itself, and I saw that it was Laohu, who I hadn't
thought about in a very long time. "<i>Rawrr-sa</i>." Mom must have
put him back together after I had given up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">He was smaller
than I remembered. Or maybe it was just that back then my fists were smaller.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Susan had put
the paper animals around our apartment as decoration. She probably left Laohu
in a pretty hidden corner because he looked so shabby.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I sat down on
the floor, and reached out a finger. Laohu's tail twitched, and he pounced
playfully. I laughed, stroking his back. Laohu purred under my hand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"How've
you been, old buddy?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Laohu stopped
playing. He got up, jumped with feline grace into my lap, and proceeded to
unfold himself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In my lap was a
square of creased wrapping paper, the plain side up. It was filled with dense
Chinese characters. I had never learned to read Chinese, but I knew the
characters for <i>son</i>, and they were at the top, where you'd expect them in
a letter addressed to you, written in Mom's awkward, childish handwriting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I went to the
computer to check the Internet. Today was <i>Qingming</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I took the
letter with me downtown, where I knew the Chinese tour buses stopped. I stopped
every tourist, asking, "<i>Nin hui du zhongwen ma?</i>" <i>Can you
read Chinese?</i> I hadn't spoken Chinese in so long that I wasn't sure if they
understood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A young woman
agreed to help. We sat down on a bench together, and she read the letter to me
aloud. The language that I had tried to forget for years came back, and I felt
the words sinking into me, through my skin, through my bones, until they
squeezed tight around my heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">#</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Son,</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We haven't
talked in a long time. You are so angry when I try to touch you that I'm
afraid. And I think maybe this pain I feel all the time now is something
serious.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">So I decided
to write to you. I'm going to write in the paper animals I made for you that
you used to like so much.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The animals
will stop moving when I stop breathing. But if I write to you with all my
heart, I'll leave a little of myself behind on this paper, in these words.
Then, if you think of me on</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Qingming<i>, when the spirits of the departed are allowed
to visit their families, you'll make the parts of myself I leave behind come
alive too. The creatures I made for you will again leap and run and pounce, and
maybe you'll get to see these words then.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Because I
have to write with all my heart, I need to write to you in Chinese.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">All this
time I still haven't told you the story of my life. When you were little, I
always thought I'd tell you the story when you were older, so you could
understand. But somehow that chance never came up.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I was born
in 1957, in Sigulu Village,
Hebei Province. Your grandparents
were both from very poor peasant families with few relatives. Only a few years
after I was born,</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">
<i>the Great Famines struck China,
during which thirty million people died. The first memory I have was waking up
to see my mother eating dirt so that she could fill her belly and leave the
last bit of flour for me.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Things got
better after that. Sigulu is famous for its</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> zhezhi <i>papercraft, and my mother
taught me how to make paper animals and give them life. This was practical
magic in the life of the village. We made paper birds to chase grasshoppers
away from the fields, and paper tigers to keep away the mice. For Chinese New
Year my friends and I made red paper dragons. I'll never forget the sight of
all those little dragons zooming across the sky overhead, holding up strings of
exploding firecrackers to scare away all the bad memories of the past year. You
would have loved it.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then came
the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Neighbor turned on neighbor, and brother
against brother. Someone remembered that my mother's brother, my uncle, had
left for Hong Kong back in 1946, and became a
merchant there. Having a relative in Hong Kong
meant we were spies and enemies of the people, and we had to be struggled
against in every way. Your poor grandmother â she couldn't take the abuse and
threw herself down a well. Then some boys with hunting muskets dragged your
grandfather away one day into the woods, and he never came back.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">There I was,
a ten-year-old orphan. The only relative I had in the world was my uncle in Hong Kong. I snuck away one night and climbed onto a
freight train going south.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Down in Guangdong Province a few days later, some men
caught me stealing food from a field. When they heard that I was trying to get
to Hong Kong, they laughed. "It's your
lucky day. Our trade is to bring girls to Hong Kong."</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">They hid me
in the bottom of a truck along with other girls, and smuggled us across the
border.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">We were
taken to a basement and told to stand up and look healthy and intelligent for
the buyers. Families paid the warehouse a fee and came by to look us over and
select one of us to "adopt."</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Chin
family picked me to take care of their two boys. I got up every morning at four
to prepare breakfast. I fed and bathed the boys. I shopped for food. I did the
laundry and swept the floors. I followed the boys around and did their bidding.
At night I was locked into a cupboard in the kitchen to sleep. If I was slow or
did anything wrong I was beaten. If the boys did anything wrong I was beaten.
If I was caught trying to learn English I was beaten.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Why do
you want to learn English?" Mr. Chin asked. "You want to go to the
police? We'll tell the police that you are a mainlander illegally in Hong Kong. They'd love to have you in their prison."</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Six years I
lived like this. One day, an old woman who sold fish to me in the morning
market pulled me aside.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"I know
girls like you. How old are you now, sixteen? One day, the man who owns you
will get drunk, and he'll look at you and pull you to him and you can't stop
him. The wife will find out, and then you will think you really have gone to
hell. You have to get out of this life. I know someone who can help."</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">She told me
about American men who wanted Asian wives. If I can cook, clean, and take care
of my American husband, he'll give me a good life. It was the only hope I had.
And that was how I got into the catalog with all those lies and met your
father. It is not a very romantic story, but it is my story.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In the
suburbs of Connecticut,
I was lonely. Your father was kind and gentle with me, and I was very grateful
to him. But no one understood me, and I understood nothing.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">But then you
were born! I was so happy when I looked into your face and saw shades of my mother,
my father, and myself. I had lost my entire family, all of Sigulu, everything I
ever knew and loved. But there you were, and your face was proof that they were
real. I hadn't made them up.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now I had
someone to talk to. I would teach you my language, and we could together remake
a small piece of everything that I loved and lost. When you said your first
words to me, in Chinese that had the same accent as my mother and me, I cried
for hours. When I made the first</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> zhezhi <i>animals for you, and you laughed, I
felt there were no worries in the world.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">You grew up
a little, and now you could even help your father and I talk to each other. I
was really at home now. I finally found a good life. I wished my parents could
be here, so that I could cook for them, and give them a good life too. But my
parents were no longer around. You know what the Chinese think is the saddest
feeling in the world? It's for a child to finally grow the desire to take care
of his parents, only to realize that they were long gone.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Son, I know
that you do not like your Chinese eyes, which are my eyes. I know that you do
not like your Chinese hair, which is my hair. But can you understand how much
joy your very existence brought to me? And can you understand how it felt when
you stopped talking to me and won't let me talk to you in Chinese? I felt I was
losing everything all over again.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Why won't
you talk to me, son? The pain makes it hard to write.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The young woman
handed the paper back to me. I could not bear to look into her face.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Without looking
up, I asked for her help in tracing out the character for <i>ai</i> on the
paper below Mom's letter. I wrote the character again and again on the paper,
intertwining my pen strokes with her words.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The young woman
reached out and put a hand on my shoulder. Then she got up and left, leaving me
alone with my mother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Following the
creases, I refolded the paper back into Laohu. I cradled him in the crook of my
arm, and as he purred, we began the walk home.</span>Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-88203792306389469522012-07-13T12:29:00.000-07:002012-07-13T12:33:54.800-07:00Cellular Memory of Organ Transplants<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cellular memory is the theory that human body cells contain
our personalities, tastes, and histories, independently of either genetic codes or
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<span style="font-size: small;">Experts of this theory claim when an organ is placed in the body, the information
and energy stored in the organ is passed on to the recipient. The theory
applies to any organ that has cells that are interconnected. They could be
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Common quirks recorded have been changes in attitude,
temperament, vocabulary, patience levels, philosophies, and tastes in
food and music. The phenomena has just recently been put into studies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The most notable studies was Dr Paul Peasall's questioning of 150 heart
transplant patients which was published in Near-Death Studies magazine
in 2002 entitled "Changes in Heart Transplant Recipients That Parallel
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<span style="font-size: small;">Claire Sylvia received a heart transplant. The donor was an 18-year-old male who had been killed in a motorcycle accident. None of this information was known to Sylvia. Upon waking up she claimed
she had a new and intense craving for beer, chicken nuggets, and green
peppers, all food she didn't enjoy prior to the surgery. </span><span style="font-size: small;">She found herself acting more masculine, strutting down the street. Sylvia even began having recurring dreams about a mystery man named Tim L., who she had a feeling was her donor. Upon meeting the family of the donor, Sylvia discovered that her donorâs name was, in fact, Tim L., and that all the changes she had been experiencing closely replicated Timâs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">William Sheridan's drawing skills were stuck at nursery level. His stick figures were the sort you would expect of a child. But as he recovered after a heart transplant, he was suddenly
blessed with an artistic talent he simply did not have prior to the surgery. He produced beautiful drawings of wildlife and landscapes. He was
even more amazed when he discovered the man who donated his new heart was a keen artist. </span></div>
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47 year old man receiving a heart from a 17 year old boy suddenly
picked up an intense fondness for classical music. The boy whose heart
had been donated was killed in a drive-by shooting, still clutching his
violin case in his hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A 47 year old transplant patient claimed that
his new heart was responsible for a sudden onset of eating disorders, the heart's previous owner, was a 14 year old girl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Dottie O'Connor, was terrified of heights her whole life. She also suffered from cystic fibrosis. She received a lung transplant from a man she
learned was a 37-year-old mountain climber. O'Connor, who has made it a tradition to climb a
different mountain on that date each yea rto place a yellow rose on top in memory of her donor.
"I almost feel like he's climbing with me," she says, "because when I
take the steps, those are his lungs." She says she now has a profound
feeling of being at home whenever she drives or flies near mountains.
"It's very strange," she says. "How can you explain that?"
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bill Wohl was a hard-driving self-described type A executive until
cardiac disease nearly killed him in 2000. A heart transplant saved his lifeâand transformed it
in ways he could never have imagined. Weeks after his operation, Wohl,
now 58, heard a song on the radio by the British vocalist Sade. "I just
started crying and rocking," he recalls. Odd, since before the surgery,
Wohl hadn't heard of Sade and was not the type to mist up over a
song. Later he contacted the family of organ donor Michael Brady, the
36-year-old Hollywood stuntman whose heart he had received, and made an
intriguing discovery. Sade was one of Brady's favorite singers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jamie Sherman. A native of southern Arizona, an area peppered with
Mexican restaurants, Sherman, who was born with a heart defect, didn't
develop a taste for the cuisine until she received a transplant in
November 2001. Soon after, she had a strong and regular craving for
cheese enchiladas, bean burritos and soft tacos. Sherman, 28, also says
she emerged from the operation with a deep sense of anger. "I couldn't
understand where it was coming from," she says.
Six months after the surgery, Sherman, like many transplant patients,
was able to contact the family of her heart donor. His name was Scott
Phillips, he had worked as a computer programmer and happened to love
cheese enchiladas. But it was the circumstances of his death, says
Sherman, that have helped her to understand her anger. "His mother told
me, 'Scott died in a fight,' " says Sherman. "It was important to
understand these feelings when everything else in my life was going so
well." Meeting Sherman in person in January 2003 also brought comfort to
the donor's family, who felt, to some degree at least, as if they were
once again in the presence of a loved one. "His mother said to me, 'Even
though you have different color eyes, I can still see him through you."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The most stunning example of cellular memory was found in an eight
year old girl who received the heart of a ten year old girl. The
recipient was plagued after surgery with vivid nightmares about an
attacker and a girl being murdered. After being brought to a
psychiatrist her nightmares proved to be so vivid and real that the
psychiatrist believed them to be genuine memories. As it turns out the
ten year old whose heart she had just received was murdered and due to
the recipients violent reoccurring dreams she was able to describe the
events of that horrible encounter and the murderer so well that police
soon apprehended, arrested, and convicted the killer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some members of the scientific community and of society,
as a whole, may brush this off as being merely a strange coincidence. We
all know that life is just one big giant experience right? (sarcasm) </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Scientists of course will attempt to debunk anything unexplainable. Maybe they should allow some mysteries of the world to remain unexplainable and allow people to restore their faith. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This post was inspired by a recent film I watched called, "The Eye"
staring Jessica Alba. It was a great film that explored the concept of
cellular memory. A blind woman received a cornea transplant in which she
inherited her donor's ability to see paranormal entities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> My sister has a kneecap from a deceased human, </span><span style="font-size: small;">Hmm! </span><span style="font-size: small;">I wonder if she unknowingly retained some of their habits? </span></div>Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-72438964559926090282012-07-12T12:52:00.002-07:002019-01-22T17:04:09.031-08:00Synchronicity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Im having another sequence of strange coincidences. Science can not debunk synchronicity. I have nothing but synchronicity thru out my entire life. <br />
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In May,<span style="color: black;"> I was at my best friends house for her birthday party. We were outside chatting with her mom. I said, âDamn, I really miss riding on the back of my boyfriends motorcycle.â As soon as those words left my mouth, literally a split second later - you hear motorcycle engines, <b>VROOM VROOM</b> and about 100 motorcycles sped past the house. It was a Harley Parade.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">It was a strange look my friend and her mom gave me, they now call me Bruja. A couple weeks later my sister was in a motorcycle accident. :( Thank god she is ok!! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">2 weeks ago me and that same best friend went out. On the way I was talking about how much I missed my girlfriend who I had a falling out with, and my other best guy friend who has gotten himself locked up since february. I havenât seen or spoken to girlfriend in over a year. As we are walking in the club she walks right out. I put peace between us that night, our friendship is too strong to dissolve over petty stuff. Well </span><span style="color: black;">I get inside the building and my best guy friend's brother is standing right there. Was SO nice to chat with him, hadnât seen him in a couple years. I went to visit my friend in prison, and so glad I went, it lifted both of our spirits up. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">These are just RANDOM coincidences, Im used to those, But its hasn't gotten too weird yet. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">We finally get to the bar and some guy is staring at me. </span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: black;">Turns out he is a psychic. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black;">Turns out my best friend also had a reading by him over 10 years ago. </span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black;">He mentioned I was surrounded and protected by a lot of spirits. (I am, and I feel them. Good ones, and Bad ones.)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black;"> He said I have psychic abilities if I ever wanted to explore them I would be better then him. (I bet!)</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black;">He also knew spoke on some personal things no one can know about me and my friend. (too personal to share here!)</span></li>
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<span style="color: black;">Since then a bunch of weird things have been happening </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> Monday I had a very lucid dream about a Black Cobra. It attacked me and bit me on my wedding day. I laid in the hospital, paralyzed and dying in my wedding dress. It was one of those strong feelings that knock me to my feet kind of dreams. It was a symbolic dream, I know this. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">On Tuesday, I called my best friend, it went straight to her voicemail. I don't remember what I wanted to call her about- just to chat I guess, it was an autopilot call. 30 mins later she calls me back, she is outside my door. She never got my missed call, (I even checked her phone) and we had no plans to hang out and hadnât spoken in 2 weeks. She never just randomly stops over.Especially during the week. There was traffic on the highway and she decided to pull off and head to my house!</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> Me and my best friend then walked into the Old Cemetery. Had a look around. Very dull somber feeling. Like no one comes here to visit their loved ones. It is locked Well we found a Tombstone that had the name Valentine Maus. Apparently this person was 136 years old! Is it a misprint? A vampire? or a world record?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Today aa friend that I work with, tells me 3 days ago she had dreams she had birds in her house. I told her 3 days ago, there was a sparrow in my house , I had to catch it and set it free. Itâs actually the second time a bird came in my house in the past 2 weeks. </span></div>
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Random chances, yes, coincidences, yes, but there is just too many of them that keep happening that it is starting to freak me out! Not normal, because when I discuss this with the majority of other people, they just try to debunk it- and also- They never experienced it!!!Victoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396531573806018798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646091531958162615.post-72759185749521058792012-05-29T09:03:00.001-07:002018-05-21T14:21:34.098-07:00Waste Land<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had the pleasure of viewing the documentary called <b>"Waste Land" </b>by <b>Vik Muniz</b>
and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It brought tears to my eyes and
emotionally it hit me straight thru the heart. This captivating film
brings you face to face with garbage pickers of the largest landfill in
the world, which is called <b>Jardim Gramacho</b>. It is located on the outskirts of<b> Rio de Janeiro.</b><br />
In Rio, there is an upper class society of people, where most tourists visit every day. Then there is the
lower class society, which is known to be extremely dangerous and no tourist should step foot there. Brazil has always had some serious problems with crime. With an average of 28 homicides per 100,000 residents, muggings, robberies, kidnappings, and gang violence are common.<br />
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Police brutality and corruption are widespread. Poverty in Brazil is most visually represented by the various Favela's. The dreadful cocaine drug has directly affected the Favelas, which are
usually ruled by the drug lords. Regular shoot-outs between drug traffickers and police
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<b>Vik Muniz </b>was born into a working-class family in Sao Paulo, Brazil. As a
young man he was shot in the leg whilst trying to break up a
fight. He received compensation for his injuries and used this money to
fund a trip to New York City, where he has lived and worked since the
late 1980s. He began his career as a sculptor but gradually became more
interested in photographic reproductions of his work, eventually turning
his attention exclusively to photography. He incorporates a
multiplicity of unlikely materials into this photographic process.Vik
has used dirt, diamonds, sugar, string,
chocolate syrup and garbage to create bold, witty and often deceiving
images drawn from the pages of photojournalism and art history. His work
has been met with both commercial success and critical acclaim, and has
been exhibited worldwide. His solo show at MAM in Rio de Janeiro was
second only to Picasso in attendance records.<br />
It was here that Vik first
exhibited his <b>âPictures of Garbage Seriesâ</b> in Brazil. <br />
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Thru this film, you are able to view just a small piece of
their life. You learn their hardships, and the trials and tribulations
that the lower class people of Brazil has had to endure for years. It is
truly beautiful what this amazing artist was able to grasp in this
film.Your heart will be touched by the characters of this film. They are
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Born in <b>Jardim Gramacho,</b> where Waste Land is located, <b>TiĂŁo</b> started his relationship with the trash when he was only 11 years
old. He would go to Jardim Gramacho everyday to take lunch to his
mother who was a picker. Some few years later he started
picking recyclable material too and followed the steps of his mother,
who had founded the <b>Copergramacho</b>, an association to sell the recyclable
material. He eventually became vice-president of Copergramacho<b>,</b> and in 2006
founded the <b>ACAMJG</b> (Association of Pickers of Jardim Gramacho) and is still the President nowadays. A natural leader, Tiaos life began to change
when he found the book âPrince,â by Machiavelli, in the trash and read it.
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It was his photograph that was chosen to be
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Here are some of the other amazing installations. Each one is amazing and captures the soul of the catadore. You can learn more about the characters of the film and find out
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<b>Valter,</b> was the landfillâs elder statesmen.
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I am actually a huge fan of recyclable art. I have dipped my feet into this
world, turning junk into pleasurable art. My sister actually started a company
called <b>Upcycled Earth</b>, in which she turns junk into treasure. You may view some of her items here: <a href="http://upcycledearth.com/">http://upcycledearth.com.</a><br />
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We are participating again in this year's <b>Art All Night Event,</b> and are making an art installation with all recyclables. <a href="http://www.artworkstrenton.org/">http://www.artworkstrenton.org/</a><br />
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what normally goes to a landfill to sit for billions of years. We need to take more caution as to what we are disposing of. Just because we don't see it anymore doesn't mean it magically disappear. <br />
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doing it with makeup and their beauty standards. We are trying too hard
to fit in. Woman are acting like sheep instead of embracing their
uniqueness. Woman have tremendous pressure to be skinny, perfect, and wear the latest style and makeup. <br />
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I think we need to embrace ourselves instead of tearing ourselves apart. We are trying way too hard to fit in. We are starving ourselves, plucking ourselves to death, damaging our hair, suffering from body dysmorphic disorder. Some of us are addicted to plastic surgery and have unrealistic expectations of ourselves.<br />
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As a whole, the society today has made us all feel ugly. We compare ourselves to celebrities that have full time personal trainers, makeup artists, stylists, they take professional pictures and have them airbrushed and now our youth is looking to them as a depiction of beauty. <br />
Lately it has really gotten out of hand. Girls are dying from anorexia, and injections and surgeries. No one wants to be real anymore, everyone wants to be a part of Hollywood. Underage girls are getting boob jobs and I just find that completely DISGUSTING. <br />
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Girls with lighter complexions and darker are bleaching and tanning to the extreme and now we have a new term called Tanorexia.<br />
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I know that this statement will start a riot but its from my heart with good intentions. Black woman are bleaching their skin and getting injections to fit in the latest trends as well, I find this especially sad, all this time the black woman has fought for her rights as a strong black woman and now wants to bleach her skin to fit in with the white woman standards? HELL NO!!<br />
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My daughter will embrace herself as a black italian greek woman and Ill be damned if she tortures herself and bleaches or tans her skin and straightens her hair and tears herself apart to fit in with American beauty standards. <br />
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I am speaking from experience, I have been a victim of this myself. Years I have tried to fit in with
others in the latest fashion and image standard and felt so insecure and
outside of myself. I have gotten quotes on plastic surgery for the dark circles under my eyes and the laugh lines next to my nose and the tummy tuck procedure. I have dark curly hair that I have bleached and tortured with heat. I have spray tanned and baked in the tanning beds to the point where I have burnt my skin. I have extreme dieted and have survived for months on end only eating broccoli and veggie burgers. I have tortured myself for years trying to fit in. <br />
As a woman I am now taking a stand against this torture.<br />
<b>FUCK This. I am who I am. I will not conform to societies standards!</b><br />
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I have curves and muscles. I have dark curly hair. I have dark circles under my eyes. I have laugh lines and surprise lines. Im wearing a shirt I got off the clearance rack at express and I dont shop at high end stores because at the end of the day, my soul and spirit is more important then my image.<br />
I have been skinny and blonde and I was miserable.<br />
The media is making us miserable.<br />
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<b>Remember when our fashion icon's looked like this?</b></div>
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<b>Rebel against the grain with me!! Take a stand against these unhealthy and unrealistic beauty standards. Love yourself and embrace your unique traits!!</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"> Nerd confession: I am obsessed with all things related to Ancient History. From the Greeks & Romans to the Norse and the Egyptians. </span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I am just infatuated with mythology. </span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"> I spent quite a few years studying the theories and myths of Atlantis and have always been enthralled with all of the evil creatures from the ancient times.
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rocks below the waterline have caused many boat accidents there. Lorelei is the name of a
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amazingly beautiful and she is by far my favorite myth! Let's have a look at how she came into existence, for she
wasn't always that ugly. The cruel Gods played their role in forming her into a hideous creature.</span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"> Medusa was the daughter of Phorkys and Keto. She was one of the three sisters known as the Gorgons. The
other two sisters were Sthenno and Euryale. Medusa was the only mortal out of
the three. She was once very beautiful and lived far in the north were the sun
didn't visit. Being very curious, she wanted to see the sun, and asked the
Goddess Athena for permission to visit the south. Athena refused to allow her
to visit. The Medusa got angry and dared to say that Athena hadn't given her
permission because she was jealous of her beauty. That was it! Athena was
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folk â subversive and dangerous, yet shy and cowardly. As Dionysiac creatures they are lovers of wine
and women, and they are ready for every physical pleasure. They roam to the
music of pipes, and they love to dance with the nymphs (with whom
they are obsessed, and whom they often pursue), and have a special form of
dance.
Because of their love of wine, they are often represented holding wine cups,
and they appear often in the decorations on wine cups. How much would you love to invite a couple of Satyr's to your house party! LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Troll</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>s</b>- The name Troll is Norse for monster. Danish trolls have
large noses, are extremely ugly and wear a craftsman's apron with a red cap and
a white long beard. Trolls had humps on their backs and hooked
noses wearing grey jackets and a red cap. In Norway there are said to also be
ugly but are also hairy. There is a Norwegian female version of the Troll,
which is a beautiful redheaded lady. Generally Trolls lived in
communities under hills in long barrows and ancient earthworks. These homes
were places of great splendor with vast amounts of treasure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the middle Ages they are
fiends that wield black magic. Trolls steal possessions, women and children.
They hate noise and can be driven out by church bells. One can also protect
themselves from Trolls by a branch of mistletoe. This was used to stop children
and animals from being taken. They are cannibalistic and are excellent at
creating metals and creating magic out of herbs. They turn into stone if the
light hits them and so Trolls only come out from dusk to dawn to cause trouble
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><b> Minotaur -</b> <span class="st">This </span><span class="st">was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man. I</span>t is said to have
been the offspring of the intercourse of Pasiphae with the bull sent from the
sea to Minos, who trapped him in a labyrinth, and fed him with the
bodies of the youths and maidens whom the Athenians were obliged
to send to Minos as tribute. The monster was slain by Theseus. It was often
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<span style="font-size: small;">Before he ascended the throne of
Crete, Minos struggled with his brothers for the right to rule. Minos prayed to
Poseidon to send
him a snow-white bull, as a sign of approval by the gods for his reign. He
promised to sacrifice the bull as an offering, and as a symbol of subservience.
A beautiful white bull rose from the sea, but when Minos saw it, he coveted it
for himself. He assumed that Poseidon would not mind, so he kept it and
sacrificed the best specimen from his herd instead. When Poseidon learned about
the deceit, he made Pasiphae, Minos' wife, fall madly in love with the bull. She
had Daedalus, the famous architect; make a wooden cow for her. Pasiphae climbed
into the decoy and fooled the white bull. The offspring of their lovemaking was
a monster called the Minotaur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Centaur -</b> This creature is
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part horse. A pair of them draws the chariot
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to be wild, savage, and lustful. They are widely known for their
extreme drunkenness as it is said that centaurs could not hold their
liquor at all yet drank all the time. It is said that the myth of the
centaurs arose with the misinterpretation of a horse and rider being
fused together. Not because they were actually being fused together but
because the speed in which they united was exceptional. The very word
centaur breaks down to Cento-goad and Tauros-bull, which hints that they
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<span style="font-size: small;"><sup><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Sirens-</b></span> <span style="font-size: small;">In Greek mythology, the Sirens were dangerous creatures, portrayed as femme fatales who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. The Sirens of Greek mythology are sometimes portrayed in later folklore as fully aquatic and mermaid-like. The Sirens might be called the Muses of the lower world. "Their song, though irresistibly sweet, was no less sad than sweet, and lapped both body and soul in a fatal lethargy, the forerunner of death and corruption." Their song is continually calling on Persephone. The term "siren song" refers to an appeal that is hard to resist but that, if heeded, will lead to a bad result. Later writers have inferred that the Sirens were cannibalistic. "lolling there in their meadow, round them heaps of corpses rotting away, rags of skin shriveling on their bones." According to Hyginus, sirens were fated to live only until the mortals who heard their songs were able to pass by them.</span></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Ekhidna</b> - She was a monstrous she-dragon with the head and breast of a woman. She probably represented or presided over the corruptions of the earth: rot, slime, fetid waters, illness and disease. Hesiod, makes her a daughter of monstrous sea-gods, and presumably associates her with rotting sea-scum and fetid salt-marshes. She has been described as the consort of Typhoeus, a monstrous storm-daemon who challenged Zeus in heaven. Together they spawned a host of terrible monsters to plague the earth.</span></div>
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<b> Cereberus-</b> Here is an offspring of Echidna and Typhon, a fire-breathing giant whom
even the Olympian gods feared. Its brother is Orthrus, always depicted
as a two-headed hellhound. The common depiction of Cerberus in mythology
and in ancient art is a 3 headed hellhound. In most works the
three-heads each respectively see and represent the past, the present,
and the future, while other sources suggest the heads represent birth,
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only for live meat and thus allow only the spirits of the dead to
freely enter the underworld, but allow none to leave. Cerberus was
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Argus Panopte-</b> A giant with a hundred eyes who lived in the region of Argolis in the Peloponnese. Once when Zeus was consorting with the Nymph Io, his wife Hera arrived on the scene. The god quickly transformed his lover into a white heifer, but the goddess was not deceived. She demanded the animal for a gift and set Argos Panoptes as its guard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Zeus sent Hermes to surreptitiously rescue his lover. The god first tried to lull the giant to sleep with his music, but failing that, slew him with his sword. It was from this endeavor that he earned his familiar title Argeiphontes (literally "the slayer of Argos"). Hera rewarded Argos for his service by placing his hundred eyes on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Banshee- </b>The Banshee is a female spirit in Irish
mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the
Otherworld. The story of the bean-sidhe began as a fairy woman keening at the
death of important personages. In later stories, the appearance of the banshee
could foretell the death. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">According to the legend, the banshee can appear in a variety of guises. Most
often she appears as an ugly, frightening hag, but can also appear as a
stunningly beautiful woman of any age that suits her and is seen washing the
blood stained clothes or armor of those who are about to die. Although not
always seen, her mourning call is heard, usually at night when someone is about
to die and usually around woods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Dziwozoana or Mamuna</b> are female swamp demons in Slavic mythology known for
being malicious and dangerous. Most at risk of becoming one of these demons
after death were thought to be midwives, old maids, unmarried mothers, pregnant
women who die before childbirth, as well as abandoned children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Werewolf- </b> a mythological human with the ability to shape-shift into a wolf-like creature, either purposely, by being bitten or
scratched by another werewolf, or after being placed under a curse. This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon.
Werewolves are often attributed super-human strength and senses, far beyond
those of both wolves or men. TEAM JACOB. LOl!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Encantado<i>-
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they donât look so scary when appearing in their human form, many South Americans
are so terrified by this Brazilian mythical creature that most villagers will not dare go
near the Amazon River at night. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Apparently, this is where the beautiful creature roams in its
human form â itâs most dangerous state. By day, the Encantado lives as either a
freshwater dolphin or sea snake. When they transform into humans though they
behold superior musical abilities, seductiveness, and attraction to parties.
Their victims can be driven to insanity, illness or even death. While in human form the Encantado will
wear a hat to hide its protruding forehead. It does not disappear while
shapeshifting and frequently displays magical abilities, such as the power to
control storms and haunt humans. They use various mind control techniques and
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kidnapping humans. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Plenty of South Americans believe in the existence of the Encantado and claim to have seen and interacted with the species.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> The most common stories involve a type of freshwater dolphin which lives in the
Amazon River called the Boto. It is larger and more primitive-looking than the
other type of Amazon dolphin and said to have the ability to turn human. There
was a recent claim that an Encantado impregnated a Peruvian woman. The stories
also involve snakes, whose kinds can vary from the common type to coral snakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Rakshasha</b> is a demon or unrighteous spirit in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
They are believed to be derived from foot of the Hindu God of Creation.
Rakshasas are a populous race of supernatural humanoids that tend toward evil.
Powerful warriors, they resort to the use of magic and illusion when
unsuccessful with conventional weapons. As shape-changers, they can assume various physical forms, and it is not always
clear whether they have a true or natural form. Rakshasas are notorious for
disturbing sacrifices, desecrating graves, harassing priests, possessing human
beings, and so on. Their fingernails are venomous, and they feed
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Leshy</b></span><span style="font-size: small;">- A male woodland spirit from Slavic
mythology that protects wild animals and the forest itself. Often it will lead
humans astray to its cave where it can make them sick or possibly even tickle
them to death. Known for its mischievous behavior it often takes the form of a
peasant but can be spotted by its glowing eyes. In its normal state it has a
beard made from living grass and vines, and is often depicted with a tail,
hooves and horns. They also have the ability to shrink themselves down to the
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><b> Incubus</b> - Incubus is a demon in male form supposed to lie
upon sleepers, especially women, in order to have sexual intercourse with them,
according to a number of mythological and legendary traditions. An incubus may
pursue sexual relations with a woman in order to father a child, to carry on
its legend. Some sources indicate that it may be identified by its unnaturally large or
cold penis. EW! Tradition holds that repeated intercourse with an incubus may
result in the deterioration of health or death. Victims may have been
experiencing waking dreams or sleep paralysis. The influence of Incubi could
also have been invoked to explain otherwise âunexplainableâ pregnancies or real
rapists might have been described as incubus to escape punishment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">There ar</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">e 2 animistic creatures I feel obligated to include that are not along with my horrifying theme above. They are just simply beautiful and exquisite creatures I feel deserve their shine on this post. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Phoenix- </b>
Originally, the Phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or
heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other
Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis,
closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Phoenix can be found in the mythologies of the Arabian, Persians,
Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Indians and Phoenicians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The
Phoenix is a mythical bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold
and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends. It
has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds
itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn
fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or
phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is
destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new
phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and
deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (literally "sun-city" in
Greek). It is said that the bird's cry is that of a beautiful song. The
Phoenix's ability to be reborn from its own ashes implies that it is
immortal, though in some stories the new Phoenix is merely the offspring
of the older one. In very few stories they are able to change into
people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Pegasus</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"> is one of the best
known mythological creatures in Greek
mythology. He is a winged divine horse, usually depicted as white in color.
According to legend, everywhere the winged horse struck his hoof to the earth,
an inspiring spring burst forth. He was sired by Poseidon, in
his role as horse-god, and foaled by Medusa.<sup> </sup>He was
the brother of Chrysaor,
born at a single birthing when his mother was <i>decapitated </i>by Perseus.
After killing his owner by mistake, Zeus transformed him into the constellation Pegasus and placed him up in
the sky.</span></div>
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