tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82518503583205762232024-03-13T05:00:47.913-07:00Bill CostleyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.comBlogger585125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-1342858436064539972017-01-07T11:15:00.000-08:002017-01-07T11:17:42.925-08:00In a post-truth WorldTrump proves HimSelf<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
puppet@l, but<br />
<br />
whose-@ll?<br />
<br />
<br />
(25 DEC 16, Xm@S D@Y, 3:15 PDT, V V 4-4D, Santa Clara CA 95050)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-82480643850400084592016-03-23T09:48:00.001-07:002016-04-18T09:41:46.698-07:00YESHUA 33CE<span style="font-size: small;"><b>YESHUA, 33CE</b></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div>
<span style="font-size: small;">Who was He really reaching</span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">when He spoke of cheeks?<br />
Probably not Pontius Pilate<br />
who wanted to be rid of Him<br />
as a prophet & pseudo-king.<br />
"When will this <i>all</i> be over?"<br />
(he thought, exasperatedly),<br />
"When will I be promoted?<br />
When will I be reassigned?"</span>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">(3/23/16 SC CA)v2</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-5703249845169735002016-01-30T08:33:00.001-08:002016-01-30T08:33:05.342-08:00Trump imaginary?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-venn-diagram-that-proves-donald-trump-is-evil-imaginary-or-both_us_56a7c49ae4b0b87beec62bb4?ir=Daily+Brief%3Fncid%3Dnewsltushpmg00000003Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-50979813347312437082016-01-25T10:31:00.001-08:002016-01-30T11:05:27.469-08:00X-FILESH@s <b>Mulder</b> <i>@lw@ys h@d</i> @ {[5]o'clock} <b>Sh@dow?</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-64031795056740454542016-01-21T14:34:00.000-08:002016-04-12T09:30:15.342-07:00TR@NSFOOTED<i>for Geo Perreault</i><br />
<br />
I've walked a west suburban (MA) B@y mall mile <br />
in black & brown <b>ROCKPORT </b><i>Walkers,</i><br />
brown <b>ECCO</b> & black <b>MEPHISTO</b> sandals<br />
in Norcal's Great Mall of the (S.F.) B@Y,<br />
& now in grey-blue <b>SKECHERS</b> <i>Relaxed Fit, </i><br />
gel-infused memory foam in Santa Clara.<br />
Where & how will I <i>next</i> B@y transfooted?<br />
<br />
<i>~Bill</i><br />
<br />
<i>(V V Santa Clara CA 21 jan 16)v5 </i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-71775998866307426402016-01-02T09:21:00.002-08:002016-01-13T19:05:53.400-08:00<h1 class="SROnly" id="main" tabindex="-1">
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I have yet2adjust2living <i>this f@r</i> in2the <b>21st </b>century,</div>
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<i>remembering</i> my dad died @ 64.5, mom @ 87 on <b>9/11/01.</b><br />
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(Sat, O2 JAN 16 8:39 a.m. PST VV Santa Clara CA 95050)v4
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-63225451007534732792015-12-23T09:19:00.001-08:002016-01-07T16:37:18.841-08:00TRUMPOLINI v9<div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">TRUMP</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">OLINI</span><br />
</span><br />
<h4>
<span style="font-size: medium;">
<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">for Peter Bates</span></span></i></span></h4>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
Trump spouts <br />
Mussolinian tirades against</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
breast-milk, blood, urine, sweat, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">spitting proof his pitifully inflated<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">T R U M P O V E R S E </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">attracts followers<br />
believing he </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">splutters</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Truths.<br />
</span><br />
(23 DEC 15, V V Santa Clara CA 95050)v.9</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Poems-of-the-People # 1409 </span><br />
</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-16079379161714664532015-12-18T09:07:00.001-08:002015-12-26T08:54:44.488-08:00shortest nite<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Shortest nite</b><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
On this</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
shortest
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
nite of</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
the yr,
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
other</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
R-cands.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
cast lots<br />
4 his</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>mop</b><br />
<b>&rug</b>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
as he<br />
_______</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
on camera.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
(21 DEC 15, V V, Santa Clara CA
95050)v.5</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-58276166655952140352015-12-18T08:43:00.001-08:002015-12-18T08:43:24.501-08:00<div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;">
B@CK E@ST<br />
<br />
<i>for Carolyn</i><br />
<i>in Boston<br />
<br />
</i>
B@ck E@st<br />
where ice sp@rkles<br />
on snowy b@ckgrounds,<br />
every <i>brightthing </i>m@tters.<br />
Here, uneven r@in f@ils us;<br />
C@n U im@gine this?<br />
</div>
Im@gine th@t!<br />
<br />
(midDEC 2015, VV, Santa Clara CA 95050) V.2Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-76295204531305936802015-12-10T09:09:00.001-08:002015-12-10T09:20:18.202-08:00slate-grey, foggy<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>slate-grey, foggy </b><br />
<br />
</span></span>sl@te-grey, foggy, <br />
mts. invisible, ground dry, </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />
under the rubric of drought.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">I've lost 105 lbs. in 3+yrs;</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />
my c@rdiologist s@ys I'll m@ke 99!<br />
</span></span>
my fin@nce guy s@ys the s@me!<br />
<br />
So y'm I so frightened?<br />
<br />
(Santa Clara CAA, V V, 07 DEC 15)v6</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-10569661889714896482015-12-01T07:28:00.001-08:002015-12-01T07:28:50.074-08:00JOHN DERECK JEFFERS, Brit.<br />
JOHN DERECK JEFFERS, Brit. <br />
<br />
<br />
Baring the scraggly broken teeth<br />
of Britain, my Scottish dad, & me,<br />
(hopefully, not my children)<br />
<br />
Dereck's barking laugh's Ulster,<br />
sense of humor, Eire, but says <br />
it's not as vicious as Dubliners'.<br />
<br />
Schooled at King's Hospital,<br />
then Trinity College, he claims <br />
British, not Irish, nationality,<br />
<br />
admiring what 'Mrs.Thatcher' <b>did</b><br />
'for Britain', he never explains, & <br />
I don't want to hear more about it. <br />
<br />
<br />
(Sun. 28 NOV 2015 2:25pm PST: V V Santa Clara CA 95050)v.3Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-57261530988565784012015-11-24T08:51:00.000-08:002015-11-24T13:36:45.085-08:0022 NOV 63<div style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">The day JFK was assasinated, </span><span style="font-size: small;">I was living in a rooming-house on the Charles Circle end of Boston's Beacon Hill. As I descended from my 3rd-floor room, I heard the loud radio of Reggie, </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (a waiter who lived on the 2nd-floor), </span>thru his closed door,</span>
<span style="font-size: small;">reporting what had just happened in Dallas TX, thinking: “Now
the squabble begins...” assuming Washington D.C. politics was then what
it is now, but it proved constitutional:
the Vice President took the oath of office; under him (LBJ) the Great Society eventually began...& by 1968, I was working for it as a public information
assistant
in the Cambridge MA Model Cities program. </span></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-8289163933396166392015-11-13T07:38:00.002-08:002015-11-13T07:38:53.513-08:00living Infant of Prague dollLIVING <b>INFANT OF PRAGUE</b> DOLL<br />
{footnote to JOY*}<br />
<br />
As a Gemini w/ 5 planets in Gemini,<br />I've rarely experienced/admitted to Joy*<br />because I complexify happiness;<br /><br />my parents expected so much of me<br />once I scared them w/my saintliness<br />as a living <b>Infant of Prague </b>doll,<br /><br />I was given duties, but no personal rights.<br /><br />(13 NOV 15, V V, Santa Clara CA 95050)v2Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-26726201732959000752015-11-11T09:30:00.001-08:002015-12-10T08:33:31.936-08:00FAMINE COME ON<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i>in CA</i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Resisting
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
prolonged drought
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
relentlessly brings </div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
gradual famine pricing,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
entertaining us with
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
advertized&adjusted bargains
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
today, tomorrow, forever</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
cyclically, designedly...</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
(11 NOV 15 9am PST, vv Santa Clara CA)v4</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-55850998401353401682015-10-31T09:25:00.001-07:002015-12-07T06:40:42.210-08:00JOY*<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>JOY*<i> e</i>-RUPTS!</b></span><br />
</span><br />
<i>for Eileen Savel</i><br /> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">
<span style="font-size: small;">eager to talk <i>anysense,</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">
solicited/not, streaming, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">
engaging the waking<i> mind,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">
writing fingers, forming lips,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">
composing <i>mind.</i> Then <b><i>Joy*</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">
erupts again, w/out worry/care.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">
Can you imagine <b><i>joy*,</i></b> not?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">{my 1st <b>joy</b>* poem} </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />
</span></span>
<br />
(Santa Clara CA, Hallowe'en 2015, 9AM PDT)v3<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-23552244944424668672015-09-20T10:12:00.000-07:002015-10-09T07:58:01.905-07:00s@'S<b>everyTHINGmedi@TED</b><br />
<br />
is subject2 s@'S<br />
short-Attention sp@n;<br />
didj@ even get <i>this</i> f@?<br />
<br />
(20 SEP 15, V V Santa Clara CA)v.3Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-2461668058167410292015-07-11T12:32:00.000-07:002015-12-08T09:12:34.043-08:00Yvonne'S Yvonne'S wordleSS<i> Floridi@n l@ugh</i> pe@lS,<br />
<complete id="goog_861060097">& </complete>my mood lightenS, liftS...<br />
<br />
(12 JULY 15, V V Santa Clara CA)v2<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-88546802206323360082015-05-11T09:27:00.000-07:002015-06-01T09:26:44.519-07:00Recent GB election<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430860025292_299868">
FROM: Dr. Tom Hubbard, Ph.D (Aberdeen)<br />
Kirkcaldy, Fife KY1 1PS SCOTLAND<br />
tfhubbard@yahoo.co.uk</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430860025292_299868">
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430860025292_299868">
Wow! The question is not IF we get independence but WHEN.
</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430860025292_299870">
More anon. In contrast, the English election was shite.
</div>
T.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-40859823411638462102015-04-07T13:02:00.002-07:002015-06-01T09:20:33.706-07:00MOUNTING GULLS<br />
<br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>to Ann Wainwright (HU17 5NU)</i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This morning I mounted your 2 gulls above<br /> my barometer-thermometer-humidity-meter<br /> in a north-facing french-window, then</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">typed this. Daylight illuminates them. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(07 APR 15, V V Santa Clara CA)v 7 </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-59868762218380524422015-03-23T17:24:00.001-07:002015-04-08T18:01:42.558-07:00Not to [0!]<pre class="Post"><span style="font-size: large;">As a volunteer groundsman
in a continuing drought
I'm told to water < </span></pre>
<pre class="Post"><span style="font-size: large;">15->10 min., 6PM+, 2x/wk. </span></pre>
<pre class="Post"><span style="font-size: large;">Just how little will this </span></pre>
<pre class="Post"><span style="font-size: large;">be reduced to? not ->[0!]
</span>
(20 MAR 15, VV Santa Clara CA)v5</pre>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-51120935621611909892015-02-17T07:20:00.000-08:002015-12-01T07:39:23.546-08:00@72<pre class="Post">@72
I'm finally learning </pre>
<pre class="Post">just how essential </pre>
<pre class="Post">Loving is to Living.</pre>
<pre class="Post"> </pre>
<pre class="Post"> </pre>
<pre class="Post"> (16 FEB 15, V V Santa Clara CA)v5</pre>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-60483779862767825362015-02-11T09:21:00.003-08:002015-03-07T15:56:53.453-08:00H2O & COUNTING...<div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>in CA</i></span></div>
<div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">We count our drought
in years, <br />rain in days,
need in feet.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: small;">When
it rained regularly </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">we didn't appear to, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">but (of course), we did. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">(11 FEB 15, v.v. Santa Clara CA)v6</span></span>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-45512189527355845132015-01-12T03:19:00.003-08:002015-03-07T16:12:53.726-08:00<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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Friday, January 9, 2015</span></h2>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>CHARLIE <i>haiku</i></b><br />
<br />
<i>c'est </i>Charlie <b>Brown</b> <br />
(<i>subliminale</i>: <i>de Gaulle</i>) </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;">cacatching-on...<br />
<br />
(09 JAN 15 Santa Clara CA)v9
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-50515842035111247692014-12-29T11:15:00.000-08:002014-12-29T11:15:31.618-08:00Carolyn Gregory's prayer for cats<b>from Carolyn Gregory, Jamaica Plain MA</b><br />
<br />
Bill, I called Peter Bates to let him know about Reggie's death, too.<br />
<div>
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Here is a poem I wrote a while ago about the "dead cats" I have known and loved. </div>
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So sorry about your loss. </div>
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Poem follows. </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">PRAYER FOR THE CATS</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">On a spring day, I prayed for a cat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">going
into decline, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">his
paws unable to hoist the bones, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">even
his voice stretched thin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">Then I framed a golden
cat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">on my wall, focusing
imagination </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">on the grace of a
striped animal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">prowling the savannah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">I
have groomed the long haired Himalayan,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">played
hide and seek as my red tabby</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">jumped
at my ankles,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">full
of glee.</span><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;"></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">No doubt my
prayers for cats go deep<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">in <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">A</span>pril when the Siamese died twenty
years ago</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">and
we buried him in rainy earth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">When I am
alone at night,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">the
cat ghosts come and guard my bed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">their eyes
shining green lamps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">in
the darkness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">I
gather them close.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">--Carolyn Gregory,
published in Bellowing Ark </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13054847487573439184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251850358320576223.post-10481812278969981182014-12-29T10:11:00.000-08:002014-12-29T10:13:48.927-08:00Karl Kadie on Wonderful Reggiefrom Karl Kadie, Cupertino CA<br />
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Bill,
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I'm so sorry to hear that Reggie died. </div>
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Reggie was a wonderful cat, </div>
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a great companion to you to be sure. </div>
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His own person, always. My
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& sympathies are with you & your loss. </div>
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Take care. </div>
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- Karl</div>
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