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  ...another "I" phone this one from apple..

  by zeb in

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  good grief thats all we need..... these phones take so much concentration from the world about them for their users they are dangerous.. i was out on my bike on a bike path and nearly skittled two teen somethings who just meandered out in front of me in 'convo' and with buds and oblivious to traffic about them.

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  not just teens either the law here gives heavy fines for anyone phoning or texting while driving..

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  LV101:

  Excellent analysis -- thank you! You state your points so beautifully and clearly. Speaking of points, to write with an unsharpened pencil is pointless . . .

  Best regards.
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  Bye, Bye Love

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  heavy, heavy upon my failing heart weighs .

  your aching need for my full and loving devotion.. i spend myself willingly on your behalf because,.

  truly, your needs and wishes outstrip my own.. if i were young and wiry man, for you .

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  HEAVY, HEAVY UPON MY FAILING HEART weighs

  Your aching need for my full and loving devotion.

  I spend myself willingly on your behalf because,

  Truly, your needs and wishes outstrip my own.

  If I were young and wiry man, for you

  I'd scale a rock and brave a torrent.

  Yes, that is what I do, no thought of self,

  To save my love from daily peril.

  Strength and life escape my soul while

  Succor I offer your own failing heart.

  It is no loss I gave my all to grant

  You life and bade my own adieu.
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  The Lesser God

  by compound complex in

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  like the night before, and so many others too numerous to count, i am awake.

  widely and wildly.. stumbling to my crowded desk, i sit like a spineless lump upon my ladder back and settle in for the duration.

  i light a new candle, earlier fitted into a brass holder, and, by fits and starts, i commence putting pencil to paper.

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  Nancy:

  Saw a few movies about JV and loved them. Might've been the same movie where a modern-day artist recreated Vermeer's work. Astounding!

  THANK YOU!
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  Their interest in us is self-serving.

  by compound complex in

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  why these war-beasts have kept me on i haven't a clue.

  perhaps my ruddy complexion is a reminder of the basic hue of a home deserted yet scarcely forgotten.. .

  i cannot by any stretch of the imagination -- and there's been a great deal of such "stretching" lately -- attribute to these coarse and loathsome creatures any delicate sentiment characteristic of our gentler race.

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  Your writing, Nancy, is so clever, so good!

  THANKS!
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  More on Punctuation

  by compound complex in

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  jd souther ... is most widely known for his part in writing somber, elegiac songs that the eagles and linda ronstadt made famous, such as "new kid in town," heartache tonight," and "faithless love.

  " the new yorker, february 13 & 20, 2012, troubadour, page 36.. .

  "i've never made a record in new york, start to finish," he went on.

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  Please punctuate the following:

  Have you visited Washington D C
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  Their interest in us is self-serving.

  by compound complex in

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  why these war-beasts have kept me on i haven't a clue.

  perhaps my ruddy complexion is a reminder of the basic hue of a home deserted yet scarcely forgotten.. .

  i cannot by any stretch of the imagination -- and there's been a great deal of such "stretching" lately -- attribute to these coarse and loathsome creatures any delicate sentiment characteristic of our gentler race.

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  Why these war-beasts have kept me on I haven't a clue. Perhaps my ruddy complexion is a reminder of the basic hue of a home deserted yet scarcely forgotten.

  
  

  I cannot by any stretch of the imagination -- and there's been a great deal of such "stretching" lately -- attribute to these coarse and loathsome creatures any delicate sentiment characteristic of our gentler race. These Martians are scorpions. They are malefactors to the most extreme degree.

  
  

  Upon first sighting of the alien beings, we humans found ourselves both inescapably transfixed by their revolting semblance of a face and, subsequently, retching with violent abandon, overcome as we were by their unimaginable hideousness.

  
  

  My viewing INVADERS FROM MARS, when a child, could not have prepared me for what started out as a little boy's nightmare. Now-extinguished friends had earlier tossed off the initial radio contact from the Martians as a higher power's benign interest in an inferior intelligence.

  
  

  Such fatuous naivete has cost us all dearly.
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  ...another "I" phone this one from apple..

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good grief thats all we need..... these phones take so much concentration from the world about them for their users they are dangerous.. i was out on my bike on a bike path and nearly skittled two teen somethings who just meandered out in front of me in 'convo' and with buds and oblivious to traffic about them.

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  not just teens either the law here gives heavy fines for anyone phoning or texting while driving..

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  It's not that I'm unfavorable toward advanced technology, but the TIME and EFFORT and MONEY involved is beyond my ability to handle.

  I have an old Canon Powershot that works great, but the photos must be loaded to my ancient (ten years old) laptop before I can send them out. It's a bummer, sure, that I have to keep the batteries in with a rubber band. Small worry there. Not as instant as Instagram, but must everything we do be instantaneous?!?!?!?!?

  I carry several paper notebooks with me and write down needed info WITH A PENCIL. It works. The worst deal is my lead breaks. I carry a small pencil sharpener with me at all times. I am prepared!

  All of the above is cheap and problem free. Well, my pc is rather slow, but, then, so am I!

  CHEERS!
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  In love, and my life is . . .

  by compound complex in

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  the tender of the flock.

  what manner of adversary are you, o cupid, my newest enemy and cleaver of a heart.

  rent in two by love's dart unwanted?scarce would i seek your quiver emptied of all.

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  Thanks, LV101 and Diogenesister!

  Love your comments!

  
  
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  In love, and my life is . . .

  by compound complex in

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  the tender of the flock.

  what manner of adversary are you, o cupid, my newest enemy and cleaver of a heart.

  rent in two by love's dart unwanted?scarce would i seek your quiver emptied of all.

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  On the slim chance anyone reads this, did you fall in love with one of the sheep while "tending the flock," i.e., carrying out, in all sincerity, your Theocratic assignments? Guys or gals, all the same in love and war.

  It was a thin line between agape love and the "other" one, the one that could lead to ruin.

  Oh, well, I hope someone comments . . .
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  In love, and my life is . . .

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  the tender of the flock.

  what manner of adversary are you, o cupid, my newest enemy and cleaver of a heart.

  rent in two by love's dart unwanted?scarce would i seek your quiver emptied of all.

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  The Tender of the Flock

  What manner of adversary are you, O Cupid,
  My newest enemy and cleaver of a heart

  Rent in two by Love's dart unwanted?
  Scarce would I seek your quiver emptied of all

  Implements of Love's war, if but to liberate
  This shepherd boy from a wasting sickness

  Brought upon an unsuspecting and pure spirit.
  Content have I been to drink in Nature's

  Beauty and surfeit my pining soul with
  Her manifold bounties.

  She and she alone has been,
  To present, sufficient food for all

  My youthful cravings.
  Now, because of you,

  Despised one, my once
  Simple eye has become darkened.

  The Serpent has coiled round and round.
  He holds tight fast and lets flow his venom

  Slow and insuperable till my full
  Allegiance becomes guaranteed.

  That dear, dear and innocent tender
  Of the fold abides no more.

  Your arrows, O Cupid, are they clad
  In lead or are they sheathed in gold?

  O, cunning and ruthless One, I have become
  Weary from a desire heretofore unknown.

  I am sickened at my very center.
  Flesh and resolve, at one time resistant

  To sin's allure, are now troubled by
  Inconvenient stirrings.

  They rumble deep within a frame of roiling
  And burning blood that seeks an unlikely cooling.

  Come closer, dear Cupid, for I speak only in jest.
  Truly, do I love you.

  Before this febrile brow breaks its hold,
  However, would I have clipped your wings

  If upon your cursed neck I should fall?
  Love's sweet suffering has made a blameless

  Child mad and unaccountable for his present
  State of amorous intoxication.

  I pray the gods render righteous judgment on my
  Behalf, should my madness . . . should my madness

  Lead to Cupid's demise by a strangler's hand. . . .