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"Suffering is , in effect
the barrier which unconsciousness, matter
sets up against consciousness, spirit;
it is the resistance to will, the limit
which the visible universe imposes
upon God."

- Miguel de Unamuno

what do poets know?

"Lo! thy dread Empire, CHAOS! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal Darkness buries All."

-alexander pope (an adamant catholic poet in anticatholic england - early 18th century)

an infinite variable

where there is hope there is sufficient means

sad but true

we are not enough
for one another

THE TREE WAS GREEN

Alone,
Up in the tree
Is a red wheel barrow upon which I thought I could
/ depend.

                  






                                   -KIRBY OLSON










....originality becomes him

uh yeah

if the fool and his money are soon parted
who gave him the money in the first place?

wisdom in the face of defeat

but the bottom line is that
mom's chicken soup
never will pull in
as much revenue
as Pfizer.
the big conglomerates
almost always win.

(...on the twins' defeat at the hands of the yankees
3-0 three straight play-off games
10 losses to the yankees on the season...2009)

tom powers - st paul Mn pioneer press