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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space 
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il duce wears it well nearly 70 years since he first swaggered into the light chin high with the air of one who knows everything and nothing the wear that eludes his face lines ours we humble subjects |
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Nightshade 
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
Awesome. Do write more often Raph. Please?  hugs, Chris |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Bro? Forgive my ignorance (and my head ain't right anyhow) but who is "il duce"? I can't fully appreciate this without knowing.  I feel dumb today. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
I didn't know what il duce meant either, Karen...so I looked it up, and here: '"il duce" Benito MUSSOLINI Fascist Dictator of Italy 1922-1943" Good to learn something new today...what would I do without the internet? But Raph, in light of that....what are you saying in your poem...I'm feeling dumb today, also! |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
thanks chris sis, no worries i feel like that most days grins/hugs Martie, you are correct. Benito Mussolini adopted the Il Duce, as his de facto title in 1923, in an attempt to elevate himself as the nation's unquestioned supreme leader. Hitler did the same with the term Führer in 1934. However, the poem isn't about Il Doofus. But a man(term used loosely)with similar tyrannical qualities, whose rule scarred others, but left him seemingly unscathed. hoping that made sense lol, now i'm off hopefully to erase/or drown the image for today hugs y'all |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
Posts 1218 |
This is very well written, I like it, it says so much in so few words! |
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Duncan Member Ascendant
since 2001-08-07
Posts 5455 |
Il Duce...Wow, I haven't seen/heard those words since my grandfather died. He told me stories about Mussolini when I was a kid (he would've appreciated your Il Doofus moniker...lol). Wasn't it Benito who took his shoe off and beat it on the table at a United Nations meeting???? Cool write Raph...  |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Now this is a lovely surprise m'friend... And like Nightshade said.. "please DO write more often" K? this.. with the air of one who knows everything and nothing was real kewl bello. hugs Mxx and i knew in the crystalline knowledge of you |
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Balladeer
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
That was Khruschev, Dunc...  |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
thanks windwalker appreciate it thanks duncan, snd the deer's right, that was Khruschev. all mussolini did was look like curly from the stooges and make comical/sad gestures of machismo. surprised me too bella, hopefully i this'll snowball into something hugs |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
quietly sitting here, in understanding |
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Duncan Member Ascendant
since 2001-08-07
Posts 5455 |
Oh, it was Khruschev. Yep, that sounds familiar now. Must've stored that little bit of info in some ailing brain cells... |
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Local Rebel Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-21
Posts 5767Southern Abstentia |
Il dufus is astoundingly more genteel than the variant more commonly heard  I'm trying to discern the target of this -- but there are too many possibilities. Which makes it great for having poetic legs in any future circumstances -- but a little vexing for those of us trying to read your mind a classic twist Raph |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
thanks n hugs Kacy lol Duncan thanks Reb, the target..well, let's just say some tyrants aren't leaders of countries but of families |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
oh my...  sigh oh raph...this is, well, I'm sorry if I pressed for the info, but the explanation did indeed allow me to appreciate the poem. |
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GG Member Elite
since 2002-12-03
Posts 3532Lost in thought |
Oh hey... I know him.  Well said. Always, Alyssa He was a man of sorrows |
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gemjop Member Elite
since 2002-11-18
Posts 2587Pencilveinia, USA |
calm, calm, calm. I love the way you deliver these. calm, and yet you can just feel the wreckage still crasing all around you. into my library. (Il doofus. ha!) anything makes me laugh, no? when doofi (plural) attack! hahaha! i need an inhaler now. catch yew layeter baldylocks! yoo remind me of someone.... |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
no worries k lol hugs thanks Alyssa gemcage better to see you laughing then crying ye tfw lol |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace |
smooch ...then she tiptoes away |
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majnu
since 2002-10-13
Posts 1088SF Bay Area |
vee vill CRUSH YOU!!!!! sorry, just had to say it. i screamed and banged the shoe at a model UN conference when i was russia in sc. they ran a crisis scenario and off i went, in the process destroying what little decorum such student run proceedings had. nice bit btw, not too often do we see something so rooted. cheers. -majnu |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
funny how we all seem to have those tyrants intrude upon our lives.. well done Raph and yep, I'm beggin with everyone else. PLEASE write more often. I really want to care, |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
good read |
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