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Ordinary Average Thoughts

Confounding expectations since 1963

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Somewhere along the line (or A poem in which I exhaust the metaphor of life as a train trip)

2016/06/04

Up late after hearing about the death of Muhammad Ali and watching old clips on YouTube.

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National Poetry Writing Month, Day #19

2016/04/19

Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a ‘how-to’ poem. My poem—a quote of an old typewriter drill (it’s basically a readymade poem)—was inspired by a Facebook post by a Washington state congressman.
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‘The children are our future’ (a poem)

2015/08/29

Thinking a bit this morning about that well-worn phrase of songwriters and politicians alike…
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Ninety degrees (revised) (a poem)

2015/08/10

Still not completely satisfied with this, but I think I have improved it somewhat…
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Ninety degrees (a poem)

2015/07/03

A bit of random musing/free association…
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