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   Rachel to Willie   
   Re: a poem for edward rochester / from b   
   30 Nov 21 13:42:49   
   
   From: roach4994@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, November 29, 2021 at 11:08:04 AM UTC-8, Willie wrote:   
   > On Thursday, November 11, 2021 at 7:55:01 PM UTC-5, Rachel wrote:   
   > > Dot: A Response (Ho...Ho...Ho)    
   > > Cancel Culture...🐾    
   > > Alt. Title: EpiDot    
   > >    
   > > And as the beating Sun reigns relentless down…    
   > > Merciless to Man's unharnessed petty folly...    
   > > The pouring stinging rays like March's lion roar...    
   > > Hark, Proteus rising blows his Conquering Horn…    
   > > Come creeping winter tides as cruel as April's bitter Hail...    
   > > Lashing down like slavery whips upon the wretched rocks...    
   > > Rolling over on his History’s magnificent mickle mysteries...    
   > > Washing away what once was thought to be....    
   > > Ocean's mad laugh at ant-like Man's pretense, preposterous hubris...    
   > > These sandcastles crumbling on god’s golden sinking shores.…    
   > > The steps to light the way once fair now gone...    
   > > Sweating all that flesh doth dandy do perspire....    
   > > Alas, the man remains again no more....    
   > > Barn Hope has left in high Noon's drowning darkness...    
   > > Stingy Scrouge returned to Scrouge's stingy Source...    
   > > And Elvis…..has left the building.   
   > Inspired! Thank you.    
      
   thank you....i think...not quite sure what inspired means....?   
      
   > (I had to look up "mickle.")    
      
   i was looking for a word which rhymed with pickle! ;-)   
      
   Tom Friedman ended his long NY Times piece on Glasgow a couple of weeks ago   
   with this:    
   >    
   > Two planets are talking to each other. One looks like a beautiful blue   
   marble and the other a dirty brown ball.    
   > “What on earth happened to you?” the beautiful planet asks the brown   
   one.    
   > “I had Homo sapiens,” answers the brown planet.    
   > “Don’t worry,” says the blue planet. “They don’t last long.”   
      
   thank you....i think...not quite sure what inspired means....?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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