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I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral perpetration
though I propose without any diminution that systematic genocide is not extinct

Armenia and Stalin’s Gulags Bosnia Rwanda Cambodia and Christians...

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"The Formidable Gambit"



Silence 
calculated and distinct

conspiring with rules
plays within the 
confined squares

of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves

untraceable 
unpredictable 
irretrievable 

in the opening move
the long-legged fly
is caught in the web

silvery and slippery 
life remains in the veins 
still, never myopic

thoughts like darts 
a sacrifice...

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No date announced, No stipulated time given
No clue about the venue
No hint on how it will come

Surely, it must take place
How pleasant it will be when it takes place
How sad we become when it takes place
How fearful we become the moment it takes place.

I look...

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From dawn till late in the night
Bare from the waist up bare feet too
The bare wind caressing the bare body
The boy of just fourteen
Cleaning washing wiping cups and other utensils
Serving tea to the customers
all along smiling
The sun moon and the stars
looking at with the envious...

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Powers beyond measure with messages of the spirit, 
the BALD EAGLE soars with might, so majestic I can hear it.
Bestowing freedom flying higher than any other bird, 
and when in silence in the night his voice can be heard.

Symbolizing courage with intense eyes to catch...

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Characters in action
Talents in multiplication
Shapes and sizes of many version
Skills on display with tension

Over the top ropes one would gape
Under the ropes one can escape
Apron of thick mattress
Arena of countless matches

Highlighted are dressed to kill
Fronting the crowd that fill
Seats of spectators that cheer
Feats of competitors,...

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"Bildungsroman" 

childish things 
become children
the sweetness 
leaves them 
when the dream
in reality leaves them
to walk hand in hand
with the nightmare
of what becomes 
us as adults

protagonists are 
sometimes heroes
sometimes villains
inside us all dwells
a versatile shadow

we save ourselves
by extracting 
the unwanted
familial 
in our marrow

antagonists 
challenge the 
villain...

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I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports, which are few 
and those few minimal at best anyway,...

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I feel like a high school civics class dropout.

So much confuses me,
to this day, you see,
about democratic constitutional legal equity,
which feels like it should have WinWin original empowerment intent,
about public and private rights, unbent
protected against others' immoral and illegal, unrepent
ed wrongs of infringement,
and why we...

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Clandestine meeting between
the Orvatech Corp. and the Celestial Military Command
Date: 04.24.2258


General Avar, the High General: The third trial test run has been successfully
concluded. What are the recommendations, gentlemen.

Dr. Quintas, the lead scientist: The fifth generation cybersolderies are ninety
percent combat ready. There is a ten percent...

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ANIMOSITY VESSEL :
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
VERSE 1:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely permitting no one to untie her shameful sandal,
Eagerly wish people swallowed by scandal.
Chameleon her pseudonym screamed from the huddle;
Many are...

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With wind in the air, girl in the honeymoon, technology shape our thinking, I cannot sleep without having to think about you Why I look so sad tell me the white lines that you see crimson like wings on my face. Boy in the hunt,...

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From hunting comes 
From hunting drums
From hunting hums
All bright stars
Near and far
In New York or Trafalgar 
Those stars in skyscrapers
Those dazzling gold vapours
The government shapers
The controller of all papers
All go on hunting 
And keep counting
And measuring sometimes too
In the treasury

Keep your eyes open
The lids may...

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Though justification may be in faith, 
And hope sustain us through all trouble,
Greater still than either is agape, 
The love that comes from God, 
The concern for our fellow creatures
Which acknowledges our oneness.
We call it love or charity; in fact
It transcends both those words.
It is...

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I remember it was this day 21st of June 
I sauntered into a famous furniture mart.
They have developed a hotel type room. 
They offer the customers a unique feel.
 
With advance free booking for two hours
To relax and test a mattress in a bed room,
The...

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