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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan 
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At this time of year The balls are filled With cloyed despair Incompetent debutantes, Or dowagers, who, with looks unfortunate, Cast their lines like limbs in various attitudes Beside imagined woes Caught between Wanting to get read and laid To rest these chickens cluck of death Love, (sex), desire, (sex), Their cherry orchard miseries When what they really need Is a shot of sin instead of tea And who in Moscow Do they think is listening . . . Save those who having managed school Prize themselves as intellectuals Too deep to sweat their brows Oh the Russian soul is full of woe Its idiom bereft of joy . . . That if it had no pain to sigh upon Would surely seek a sty |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
I do not respond enough to what you offer to us..and I should. I do enjoy your words and thoughts very much. This piece especially. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
Thanks Susan Glad you liked it John |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
True on both levels, I'm afraid....and the emptying, slurried in the same despair. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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