tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7739593115816665192024-03-18T04:29:29.060-07:00Shrewsbury clockA portmanteaushrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.comBlogger1998125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-90493985065930437482024-03-18T04:28:00.000-07:002024-03-18T04:28:47.427-07:00CONGREGATING<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Angel of Death, having a rough night,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was none too pleased to find Max</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Attended by Thuisko, Tzontemoc, Hermes,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maeve, Libitina, two of the Nameless Ones</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And a <span class="il">banshee</span> (A <span class="il">banshee</span> of all things!<br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He hadn't seen one in years.) A wayoob</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was taking Max's pulse; the <span class="il">banshee</span>,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stirring something that kept changing color,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Looked willing to stir forever. Hermes,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">One of the Nameless, Maeve and Libitina</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Were playing cards; Hermes called</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Take a hand! Libitina's just playing</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">To be polite; she doesn't know the rules."</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-71050970460193227142024-03-15T04:25:00.000-07:002024-03-15T04:25:44.625-07:00TALKING TO KIKO<p> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I say "Dog,<br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">"If I die and T. S. Eliot</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Buries me in his garden</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Will you dig me up again?"</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">(That T. S.! Always<br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Etherizing folk on tables</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Or burying them in gardens</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">)</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">"How deep we talking?"</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Asks <span class="il">Kiko</span>. "I am, after all,</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">A very small dog and </span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Easily distracted."</span></b></div>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-59757713988970120082024-03-13T04:25:00.000-07:002024-03-13T04:25:56.032-07:00REVENANT<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A ghost <span dir="ltr">at 10:30</span> on a cold morning</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stands on the memory of</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">His left foot since he can no longer</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Remember his right one clearly.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He thinks he was fond of it</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">But it's no use; he only manifestS</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What he recalls precisely.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(It's fortunate he stared so much</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In mirrors; he'd feel foolish with no nose.)</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He hops off, stopping at corners, </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Waiting for lights to turn green</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Though what harm could cars do him now?</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Since he can't recall why he's come back</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He begs forgiveness from everyone he sees</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who's wearing a hat; he forgives the hatless</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unless they also wear gloves in which case</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He whispers </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Some things cannot be forgiven!"</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-8570271786559159522024-03-11T04:26:00.000-07:002024-03-11T04:26:34.569-07:00STATIONS<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">One morning the train to work was rerouted</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">No Plandome. No Great Neck. No Auburnadale</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nor Woodside, where all must change.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tus there was and Merv, Samarcand, and Balkh and Bukhara.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The conductors promised we would eventually</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reach Penn Station but I detrained at Nishapur</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Famous for its pots, its grapes and its wines and</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">For Omar Khayyam who wrote about them.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">No one here speaks English and it seems to be</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Only a few hundred years after the Hejira</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Say, 1150 by my reckoning. I get by;</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">People here are used to lost men; we have our own</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Burial association, a flag and a rousing anthem.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-51784295764953546542024-03-08T04:21:00.000-08:002024-03-08T04:21:34.865-08:00CHOICE<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Great Aunt Mabel, who was thin and</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">As sharp as four needles</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Married soft, kind-hearted Azie</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This was fortunate. Had she chosen Joe,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">My grandfather -- a twice-bitten soul</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who reserved always the option</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of turning sideways and disappearing --</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Great cities might now be dust and smoke.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-81822418177682763412024-03-06T04:27:00.000-08:002024-03-06T04:27:02.690-08:00VISITOR<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Before she was a death spirit the banshee</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was a washerwoman so, as a professional,</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">She glanced at the hospital sheets on the bed</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Where Max was taking his time dying. "Pfoo," she said </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(In Galitzianer Yiddish, though Max had, over the years. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Picked up a fair amount of Gaelic) "a speckled hen</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Would feel shame dying in such ill-washed sheets;</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wait you here -- I'll have a word with them in the laundry."</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-41509630945187377472024-03-04T04:26:00.000-08:002024-03-04T04:26:27.666-08:00PSYCHOPOMP<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Superbly fat and self-assured Old Mercury</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rarely flies now though the tiny wings</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">On his hat and soft-sided boots still function.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">His days are spent looking after his investments</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And his nights drinking with thieves. As part</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of his plea-bargain he acts as a pro bono</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Guide to Hell. For a fantastic fee, it's said,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He'll smuggle souls back to life, leaving them</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">At Charing Cross, with forged papers and car fare.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-53966079344457296592024-03-01T04:26:00.000-08:002024-03-01T04:26:05.041-08:00ATTIRE<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the Victoria and Albert Museum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is a glossy hat that has waited</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">For its true owner to return </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Since 1910. It's half-promised</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">When this happens to plead</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">For the liberation of a pair</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of fawn-colored spats last worn</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In 1896, at a society wedding.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-52411644184231708542024-02-28T04:25:00.000-08:002024-02-28T04:25:32.711-08:00STILL, A GOD<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Turn the god of poverty</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="il">Upside</span> <span class="il">down</span> he remains</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The god of poverty nor</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Will he be surprised that,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Though a god, he is subject</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">To such indignities. <br /></span></p>
shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-83221948776640953122024-02-26T04:26:00.000-08:002024-02-28T04:24:26.792-08:00SHONAGON'S DEMON<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It was reported that</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">There was a <span class="il">demon</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the main room</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of the palace. At first</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">There was some upset</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pairs of guards walked</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The corridors some</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wearing tall hats, others</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Twanging bowstrings.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Towards dusk someone</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ordered food; the <span class="il">demon</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent word that dumplings</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And a glass of wine</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Might be an agreeable way</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">To begin negotiations.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-32154726937103514992024-02-23T08:01:00.000-08:002024-02-23T08:01:05.758-08:00EH -- A LIVING<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">The god of poverty, himself</i></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">Desperately poor, survives </i></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">On the pittance he gets for being</i></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">The god of wealth’s shadow</i></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26.4px;"><br /><br /></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-76731413742313152092024-02-21T04:31:00.000-08:002024-02-21T04:31:45.640-08:00WITNESSES<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Though everyone knows the Abbe</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And the Countess have long</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Been lovers, for the sake</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of discretion when they walk</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In her ordered garden a footman</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Follows ten feet behind, sweeping</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The ground, erasing all </p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Evidence of their passing. If I were</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To join them their ghosts would</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Startle, deeming me impertinent </p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But I think the footman might welcome</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A bit of company. We'd try to guess</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The words we can't hear.</p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-79410933343864499622024-02-19T05:14:00.000-08:002024-02-19T05:14:39.102-08:00CLARIFICATION<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You are not the first to ask but</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I'm not Mary; I'm Yashoda and this</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Infant at my breast isn't Jesus but Khrishna.</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Stay If you're in the market for a miracle</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My boy may be of some use to you.</p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-14625568043738795382024-02-16T04:30:00.000-08:002024-02-16T04:31:15.644-08:00EXCHANGE<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I thought, my father says,</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That being dead releases one</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From all responsibilities. </p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">God, shrugging, says,</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now we know different.</p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-68466530112213118272024-02-14T04:22:00.000-08:002024-02-14T04:22:49.857-08:00TARA WHO COMES IN TEN COLORS<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I thought to introduce my mother</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To Tara who grants protection</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From eight great perils including</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Pirates and mad elephants but found</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They were already acquainted.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There used to be, my mother said,</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Many raging elephants and more</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Than a few pirates strutting</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Through Patchogue -- this was before </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You were born. Why do you think</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I grew up to be so <span class="il">durable</span>?</p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-80437206891632550442024-02-12T04:24:00.000-08:002024-02-12T04:24:53.834-08:00OCCUPATION<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">When the Annunciation Angel drops by, Mary</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Is often depicted reading a book though</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">When most of these pictures were painted</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Female literacy wasn't common. Still, I suppose,</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">She needs to be shown doing something --<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Something that can be gracefully set aside</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">With perhaps a flower hastily put as a mark</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">In a story she'll never return to. She could, perhaps,</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Have been shown making puppets but that</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Might seem a bitter commentary on her fate.</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;"><span class="il">Juggling</span> dishes or eggs? Opportunities enough</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">For an ingenious painter but think of the crash</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">If the angel startled her! Or, if she caught her eggs</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Or dishes or (if she'd rare talent in the <span class="il">juggling</span> line)</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Her eggs <i>and </i>her dishes, where to put them down?</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">It won't do for her first words to God's messenger to be<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">"Here -- hold these for a moment, would you?"</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-46537619283058727682024-02-09T04:24:00.000-08:002024-02-09T04:24:13.279-08:00FROM BOTTICELLI<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Mary and the angel bow</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">To each other. The angel </span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Thinks "How calmly she takes</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">This astonishing news!" Mary</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Thinks "He spoke his lines well!</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Is this, I wonder, a time to ask</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">If being the Mother of God</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Will entitle me to wings? If so,</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Large or discreet? White? Blue? Gold? </span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Or maybe rainbow or something</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Radiantly viridescent?"</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-54042154827913825192024-02-07T04:32:00.000-08:002024-02-07T04:32:03.221-08:00DRAWING<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Survivors of a shipwreck, some with wings,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Clamber onto shore. A winged horse -- not Pegasus --</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Is tied to a small tree that believes it's a palm.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Two winged men --was there a sale on wings? --</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Wear hats and argue over a length of rope. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The figures and the rocks seem French or Italian;</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The tree to the right, though, is Hiroshige's. It's plain</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">These trees, rocks, horse and men are all castaways</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">From other drawings, waiting to be rescued. Meanwhile,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">They've kept an open space in the middle distance</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">In case Mt. Fuji should appear turning them all</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Into citizens of an ukiyo-e.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-81383056442480451882024-02-05T04:19:00.000-08:002024-02-05T04:19:40.414-08:00ONE MORE ANNUNCIATION<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The painter Memling sighs;</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">They've sent, for this Annunciation,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">An apprentice angel who is just</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Getting started in the trade. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The Mary, experienced and kind,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Gives him his cues and does her best</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">To look, once more astonished. Above her<br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">A bleached raven pretends to be a dove.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Two younger angels crowd in. The one </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">With green wings stares fascinated</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">At Mary's robe, fingering the fabric.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The pink winged one looks at the painter</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Solemnly, daring him to laugh.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-26880768497940285952024-02-02T04:24:00.000-08:002024-02-02T04:24:16.585-08:00IN CALIFORNIA<p><span style="font-size: large;">Cold sunlight moving slowly <br />
Downhill, breaking itself<br />
Apart to cross a stream<br />
Reforming to move —<br />
More briskly now —<br />
Towards two crows discussing <br />
Something in a parking lot.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-49440369058409897382024-01-31T05:31:00.000-08:002024-01-31T05:31:22.519-08:00DISTANT SOUL<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Suppose your soul, missing the years</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It belonged to a magician</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Who hid it from his foes </span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Within an egg, inside a nest,</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Under a bird, on a tree branch</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Growing at the top of a mountain,</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Gets tired of city life and withdraws</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">To a small town in a distant and</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Possibly imaginary country. Birds</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Carry messages concerning you</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">But the distance is great so Lapwing</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Passes to Falcon passes to Merganser</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Passes to Albatross passes to Tsuzume</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Who, if she isn't eaten by an owl,</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Instructs your soul to behave in ways</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Appropriate to your condition. "He is fearful;</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Tremble! He is confused; leap aimlessly!</span></i></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">He is complacent; fall into a well!"</span></i></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-7362646395497295252024-01-29T04:28:00.000-08:002024-01-29T04:28:10.371-08:00ADVICE TO SOMEONE AWAKE ALL NIGHT<p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>What you’d ask of the moon<br />
Ask early; by morning <br />
Her heart will be cold. </i></span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-34445196598503251622024-01-26T07:32:00.000-08:002024-01-26T07:32:08.244-08:00REASONS<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The dog who now lives here,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Bred to live in palaces,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Asks why I am not an <span class="il">emperor</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Ill-fortune, I tell her, flaws</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">In my character and reliance</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">On amusing but unwise ministers</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-78827473960080431482024-01-24T04:18:00.000-08:002024-01-24T04:18:16.136-08:00THREE LINES<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">I explain to my cat that she</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Has been dead for a year</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">She seems unimpressed.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.8px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Here, for one night only, Maitreya,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Buddha of the Future,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Dancing his fool head off</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.8px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">A dog so small she's</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Just a breath away</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">From being the idea of a dog</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.8px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Your shadow, knowing</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Everything about you,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Remains anyway.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-51648504908938266112024-01-23T04:32:00.000-08:002024-01-23T04:32:30.899-08:00 CLIENT<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">One of the things about Maitreya,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Buddha of the Future, is that if</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">He asks you to write about him</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">And you say you will someday</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">He nods, perfectly satisfied.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0