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Ohio FinaleReinhardRiteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394123844751095822noreply@blogger.comBlogger417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293594536806592881.post-319973324676914322015-11-27T19:24:00.002-08:002015-11-27T19:27:13.411-08:00The Tiny Comebackshould we let our ego run wild and renew the blog???? HUH? HUH?ReinhardRiteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394123844751095822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293594536806592881.post-28199444374102099642014-09-01T18:39:00.001-07:002014-09-01T18:39:20.526-07:00Acts of Random Sonnet Susan Reinhard (c) 2014<div class="_1x1">
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Acts of Random Sonnet Susan Reinhard (c) 2014<br /> <br /> Mourning my great age and bedimmed beauty<br /> Is a silly waste of rare precious time<br /> I’ll ne’er again get the call of booty<br /> And nothing works as it did in my prime<br /> All I have left are these typing fingers<br /> A three year old Macbook on internet<br /> I lack the wit to fling great zingers<br /> And no more plays do tickle yon ink jet<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Still, I have relative health and SS<br /> All that I need to survive day to day<br /> A twenty five year old car who’s the best<br /> Still walking even if there is no sway<br /> I guess I’ll continue to bother you<br /> Until I take leave of this Earthly zoo</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mommas, don’t let your daughters grow up to be
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By 1957, my father’s job at Bethlehem Steel was starting to
have layoffs and closedowns. He had already been injured twice: a hernia and a
huge burn down his arm from hot steel racing down a chute. I was never sure
what he did there but Mom was relatively happy staying home as a housewife. She
had her backyard friends to talk to over the fence and her constant stream of
cigarettes which were considered normal and healthy back then. We did notice
her sitting on the couch for hours, playing with the filter of the cigarette
while she thought of things. (I didn’t realize where I got the daydreaming from
until years later.) </div>
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Underemployed, Dad started a correspondence course for being
a draftsman, copying building plans in the days before computers and copiers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shut downs at the Bethlehem were getting
longer and longer. My Uncle Rich, the third child of the family (Dad was first,
causing the shotgun disaster of my grandparents’ marriage) and lived outside of
Cleveland, Ohio working for Ford Motors. Rich had found a lengendary soft job.
He was a tinker, a metal worker, and Ford paid him not to do any actual work,
just not to work for anyone else. Uncle Rich earned a good salary for staying
home. Cleveland seemed like Nirvana, so my Dad packed up our 1940 Plymouth that
looked like a huge olive on wheels and for which he had paid $90 in 1954, and
went to Cleveland to look for work, leaving us behind to wait.</div>
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Most of my life in Johnstown before the age of 7 had been
fairly normal, with healthy home cooked food and baking only done on a Saturday
night. I had a magic ability to make fudge turn out perfectly and my sister and
I played in the back yard and went to dangerous places alone, like the River’s
edge (the same river from The Johnstown Floods) and a half built stone garage
with teetering rocks. Mom wanted us out of the house and her hair from morning
till dinner and we obliged. School was sufficient to keep us away during most of
the year but summer vacation was the challenge. I remember we went up on a
mountain and while dangling from the edge of a waterfall, lost my shoes. No
reprimand for the daredevil events, just the missing shoes. Television really
wasn’t a big part of our lives because that was for Mom to watch while we
stayed out of her hair, but I remember good Christmases and fun Saturday night
dinners. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother had been raised by
her great grandmother, having been abandoned by both her parents, and despite
her house being<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>full of old newspapers
and snarling dogs, we loved Grandma Berner as every visit, she always had a
warm Pepsi and a silver dollar for us.</div>
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But suddenly, one day, the house had been sold and we were
packing getting ready to move the 200 and some miles West and North to
Cleveland, Ohio. Dad had found a job as a draftsman and an apartment on The
West Side of the city. I don’t remember any arguments at that time, just
controlled and efficient work. You’d think that would have had a bigger impact
but it was fine and the daydreams <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had
not yet became an addiction and actually disappeared for a while. They would
soon return when the most terrible thing imaginable happened to my mother upon
arrival in Cleveland. The thing no woman could contemplate, the thing that
ruined her marriage and her life…she had to get…A JOB!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mommas, don’t let your daughters grow up to be
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In 1954, we were the first people on our block of Johnstown,
Pennsylvania to get a television set. I was 5 years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was black and white of course, but all of
the neighbors would crowd in the living room every night the first week to see
the magical box with its one channel that used shows from all 3 national networks:
Channel 6, Altoona “From High Atop the Alleghenies.”</div>
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Like most American families, we were already unhappy, but,
in 1954, we did not have all the communications we have in 2014. My parents,
Betty and Carl had no idea what to do about it or how they got into the mess of
marriage. Mom and Dad had NO idea how babies were made and married, determined
to not have children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the only
advice about Birth Control Mom could find was from Dad’s slightly brain damaged
mother. Grandma had gotten pregnant 12 times with 6 surviving; and my 17
year-old-mother didn’t know that Grandma had the 2 safe weeks wrong and took
her advice. Mom then churned out two kids within 18 months of marriage and was
not happy about it. With the third one, a miscarriage, she finally figured it
out.</div>
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Mom had enough love and attention for one child, but not for
two, and I was number two in birth order and value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kathy and I have very different memories of
our childhoods. I sensed I was a mistake and was in danger. That my mother
would call the Orphanage (or pretend to) when we were ‘bad’ had the desired
effect on me. Being redhaired, I was told I was going to end up like my Aunt
Betty Lou, (whom I later discovered had to be told that taking money from boys
for sex was NOT a good thing ) who was never quite accepted in the family.</div>
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In 1954, spankings were acceptable and encouraged, so I
learned to stay very still…preferably in my bedroom with the lights out while
Mom patrolled the halls puffing on a Kent Cigarette and angry at the world.</div>
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And so, when the television set arrived, I tiptoed
downstairs and saw the young and handsome Roy Rogers riding the beautiful
Palamino Trigger to the rescue of…whoever that week…and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my fantasy life began. And I was the one being
rescued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was then that I started to
write little stories and draw little cartoon strips (yes, my cartoonists, from
an early age I was drawing them). Roy was my first ‘boyfriend’ and the start of
the years of fantasizing, a habit with which I still wrestle at the age of 64.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">My first marriage only
happened because I wasn’t a virgin. It was thirty years before I realized that
I had been raped. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1969, I had just
arrived at Ohio University, 200 miles from my home and my crazy mother. My
first….what to call him? Not lover…because there was no love…my gynecological
surgical tool…was a cute Sophomore who played guitar in a tacky local band, and
the first of many tall, skinny ‘artists’ I was a sucker for. Bob invited me to
his dorm room. I’d like to give you more details, but as I walked in, he closed
the door, threw me down on the bed, pulled my clothes off…and raped me. About
as seductive as a truck wandering onto a railroad crossing and being hit by the
locomotive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And ever the good host, Bob
stood up angry and threw me out of his room shrieking. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You didn’t enjoy it!” Bear in mind, he felt
that he had no hand, as it were, in my pleasure. He had not inquired as to whether
or not it was my first time. He felt that the very presence of his male member
should be all a woman needed for enjoyment. I had no idea what was going on and
it was a bit too painful to be “enjoyed”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Granted, it was 1969, and
although the sexual revolution had begun on the East Coast, it was still 1927
in Ohio’s mind. So, being that I did not yet know what Feminism was. I simply left
his room, as he demanded, and went back to my dorm and never heard from him
again. And if you want to know why I do not mention blood…he left the condom in
and I didn’t know it was there till it fell out two weeks later. (Thankfully,
after I had returned to campus from Spring break. Try explaining THAT to your
Mother.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">So ergo, Eddie, my first
husband was the virgin when I went to Atlantic City for a summer job and met
him. Eddie was dating a female virgin at the time. (Of course, I didn’t find
that out till later) She was a nice Jewish girl who would have been perfect for
him, except he was more of a gentleman than my first…experience…and whenever
they tried to have sex, she stopped it at the first sign of pain. (Oh,
Sweetie…if only you had just gritted your teeth and let it happen, how
different all three of our lives would have been.) This had gone on for quite
some time by the time he met me and of course, I didn’t know about her when we started
dating. I was far from perfect for him but it was possible to have sex with me
because there was no barrier to the act. And being an idiot who knew nothing
about such things, there was also no pleasure in our sex, but at least he
didn’t get angry at me. Like I said, it was before Feminism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">However, I had to return to
Ohio from the summer job and Eddie and I parted ways, hopefully to never
to see him again. Well, he showed at Ohio University two months later. I
thought it meant love but I later found out, it was just about having sex. Not
great sex, but at least I didn’t stop him every time as she had continued to
do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">So why did I marry him? I was
shy and weak and anxious for what seemed to be love. After that marriage ended,
all of my romances, and my second marriage were also about sex. After I
divorced Eddie, I learned more about sex and had much fun with it, but never
met a man who didn’t think he could do better than me. Still, there is a happy
ending to this tale. I read an Ohio newspaper and there was the joyous news
that Bob had died of a heroin overdose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karma.
It’s a bitch. And now, so am I.</span></div>
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You like to think that you are good with words<br />
That you’ll find the ones that will solve it all<br />
But emotions make them scatter like birds<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Leaving you silent as a broken doll<br /> Right now I can’t even find a good rhyme<br /> To make the poems that fulfill my dreams<br /> I’m so old that I’m running out of time<br /> And this sonnet sounds like belches and screams<br /> At least boredom has motivated me<br /> To try and strangle my dusty daydreams <br /> I am not the she nor are you the he<br /> So no more romance, I will write elsewise<br /> And leave younger broads to praise the cute guys<br /> SBR 7.7.14</span>ReinhardRiteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394123844751095822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293594536806592881.post-13103812612538268442014-05-30T12:04:00.001-07:002014-05-30T12:04:50.529-07:00TMI
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Before
I was liberated by menopause, I estimate that I had sex approximately 1,500
times. I was fortunate to come of age in the midst of the sexual revolution. I
am retired, but I do have some advice for men.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 63.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Yes,
you should love your penis, but your love life will be less rocky if you don’t
act like it’s the only one available on Earth. Chances are it is NOT going to
be the only one ever offered to your woman, so don’t act like it is. And if you
think it is the largest one available, you never met my second husband. </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 63.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">That
said, remember no truer words were ever spoke than: “It’s not the size of the
boat but the motion of the ocean.” (I am reminded of the Jeff Foxworthy joke:
“But it takes a dinghy a whole lot longer to get to England than a steamship.”)
HOWEVER, Love also helps the result.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 63.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Porn
movies mostly teach men to beg their girlfriends to try new things with
disastrous results.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 63.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Believe
it or not, you did not invent oral sex and there will be other men who know how
it works. And for the love of GOD, don’t talk about it…just do it!</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 63.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Women
have more intense orgasms than men because our time is limited. After
menopause, we are freed of needing them constantly and can concentrate on our
gardening and grandchildren. However, remember that we still enjoy sex. It will
be more fun with the woman next to you in bed than it will be trying to earn
the money a younger wife will cost. . </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 63.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">A
man who doesn’t learn to control the constant craving is not going to give the
attention to the career he will need to get rich in to afford the young women
he craves. Catch 22 can be so amusing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 63.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">You
can be the most skillful lover on Earth and give the greatest orgasms but we
will STILL dump you if you are mean or act like an idiot. This is why God made
vibrators.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 63.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">There
are 6,000,000 more women than men in America. Chances are we are going to end
up alone and we must be financially and emotionally prepared for it. Statistics
prove that women need a TON more money than men to buy a man, so chances are it
won’t help us. This is why God made chocolate.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Sonnet
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">I
want to meet living breathing people</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Not
just upon the Facebook’s icy page</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Talk
occurs beneath my church’s steeple</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">But
the rest of Earth leaves me in a rage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Thine
headphones seal off earholes in the gym</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Or
upon thine cell phone thou dost natter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Walking
or seated with a visage grim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Sternly
bearing your teenager’s chatter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Neighbors
stand behind closed doors as you pass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Trying
to avoid the hallway face to face</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">You’re
home all day as they laid off your ass</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">And
the hot men no longer give you chase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">With
a sigh, back you log on to FB</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Abadi MT Condensed Extra Bold"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Hoping
that your life will be less MT</span></div>
ReinhardRiteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394123844751095822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293594536806592881.post-8810112542194888262013-12-16T11:46:00.002-08:002013-12-16T11:46:35.158-08:00I Forgot 97 so THIS is the real 100th Sonnet
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Number 100 The Last
Sonnet</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sonnet one hundred is
eluding me</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d like to end the
whole thing with a bang</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I never found the
rhythm or the key</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My lady doth confess
they never sang</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will did have his
mystery dark lady</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But aging broads are
dismissed as stalkers</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Regarded more as Sad
Sack than Miss Sadie</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unsexed by their
medicine and walkers</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Still, there are
proud moments to remember</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And gave to me respect
for poet’s muse</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apt it is to end it
in December</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And while we still
can do it without booze</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And thus I end my farting
with this biz</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The final sonnet and Whoot!
Here it is!</span></b></div>
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Day One Year One: I Am Reborn</div>
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I open my eyes and still I am in
darkness. Slowly, shapes and dots of light reveal themselves. White and silver
on a canvas of ebony black. I realize that I am breathing hard, with cold air
ripping through my lungs. Some THING rattles by and I do not know if it is a
rat or an autumn leaf. The poem! Find the poem! Reach into my coat to touch the
envelope and I smile, I can breathe again. I remember that, despite losing
everything, all of my worldly goods, that I am loved by God and one woman.
There is nothing more a man needs in this world. Nothing! </div>
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However, it is dangerous in this
alley at two o’clock in the morning when even the sounds of taxis and the
number 6 train are rare and there are strange and desperate men like myself
moving through the empty streets. I shiver from the chill as I only had a
moment when I realized that the men were coming up my stairs and I only had
seconds to decide on what I could grab before being dragged out and cast into
the street by the goons…no! No, Robert, don’t do that to them and yourself…by
the men send to clear me out of my home.</div>
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Of course I made sure the poem was
safe against my heart and then I went to my easel and found my oldest and
dearest friend: a camel’s hair brush that I have been using since college; and
slid that into my backpack. No time or room for canvas or color except for a
new tube of crimson red that had yet to have its mouth unstopped. Unstopped.
Strange word to use right now. The poetesses in my life have left their mark.</div>
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R U HERE? M I – September 22, 2013</div>
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So, after forty years of good playwriting and three years of
mediocre poetry, it’s been suggested that I hunt down and tame the elusive
essay. Ah, what an intellectual bunch we are on Facebook: suggesting essays
instead of flower arranging or knitting. Yes, I know that I will get fifty FB comments
defining ‘essay’ and how I’m screwing up the form, but…your suggestions will be
appreciated…through gritted teeth at times…but appreciated, damn it. I pray
that you will not sweat the grammar to death, as the reason I became a
playwright is that I do not see dangling participles but I will put them into a
speech if they sound natural. Playwrights don’t have to do that there grammar
stuff right.</div>
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Thank God for Spell Check.</div>
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I will begin this with a statement you will not agree with.
While we are all shining stars, all alike and valuable…I am flawed. Please, no happy
bright reassurances, I have to confront the reality of being raised by a
control freak Mother. When I ran screaming into the night at the age of 19, I
was not aware that she had undermined my self worth and self confidence and had
habituated me into taking care of She Who Deigned to Permit To Live If I Was of
Service to Her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That I left her was also
the best thing that happened to her as she remarried to find companionship.</div>
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As for my companionship, I was ripe for anyone who needed to
control others. Being rudimentarily female, these masters would all be men.
It’s taken me till the age of 64 to realize that they were all also as
rejecting and impossible to please as Mom. Part of the Controller is that they
will always criticize you, no matter what you are doing for them. (Including
paying the bills and keeping house for two husbands.) But I always tried to do
better for them. I always thought it was my fault that they didn’t want to do
anything for me, that I was unlovable and unreasonable and uneducated and
inferior. I eventually left them all and here’s the funny thing…they are all
still alone in their 60’s and 70’s because is no way to satisfy a control freak.
It’s not about whether or not you do it ‘right’, it’s about control, and so you
can never do it ‘right.”</div>
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All right. This is Essay 1 and the fun has just begun.</div>
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And only one Spell Check error!!!!!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-fscaled: no; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000\,9000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,50000 \#003692 4 100000 shade=20000 satm=300000\,79000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,100000 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #4579B8; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: "shade=88000 satm=110000"; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .83pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid;">I
don’t live in a theatrical script</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-fscaled: no; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000\,9000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,50000 \#003692 4 100000 shade=20000 satm=300000\,79000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,100000 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #4579B8; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: "shade=88000 satm=110000"; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .83pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid;">Nor
in the Most Magical Place on Earth</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-fscaled: no; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000\,9000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,50000 \#003692 4 100000 shade=20000 satm=300000\,79000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,100000 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #4579B8; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: "shade=88000 satm=110000"; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .83pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid;">“Happy
Ever After” leaves me feeling gypped</span></b></div>
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birth.</span></b></div>
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Romance withers when the bills come due</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-fscaled: no; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000\,9000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,50000 \#003692 4 100000 shade=20000 satm=300000\,79000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,100000 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #4579B8; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: "shade=88000 satm=110000"; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .83pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid;">Got
some idea what a guy expects</span></b></div>
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the message is she’s nothing like Sue</span></b></div>
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you are as big a fool as I am</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-fscaled: no; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000\,9000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,50000 \#003692 4 100000 shade=20000 satm=300000\,79000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,100000 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #4579B8; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: "shade=88000 satm=110000"; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .83pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid;">If
you think that all that matters is bed </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-fscaled: no; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000\,9000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,50000 \#003692 4 100000 shade=20000 satm=300000\,79000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,100000 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #4579B8; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: "shade=88000 satm=110000"; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .83pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid;">Men,
without money, chicks won’t give a damn</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-fscaled: no; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000\,9000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,50000 \#003692 4 100000 shade=20000 satm=300000\,79000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,100000 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #4579B8; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: "shade=88000 satm=110000"; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .83pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid;">Women,
Love Sweet Love won’t comfort the dead</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-angle: 5400000; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-linearshade-fscaled: no; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: linear; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000\,9000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,50000 \#003692 4 100000 shade=20000 satm=300000\,79000 \#9EC1FF 4 100000 tint=52000 satm=300000\,100000 \#BED3F9 4 100000 tint=40000 satm=250000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-style-textoutline-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textoutline-fill-color: #4579B8; mso-style-textoutline-fill-colortransforms: "shade=88000 satm=110000"; mso-style-textoutline-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-align: center; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-compound: simple; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dash: solid; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-dpiwidth: .83pt; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-join: round; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-linecap: flat; mso-style-textoutline-outlinestyle-pctmiterlimit: 0%; mso-style-textoutline-type: solid;">So
I wish you all to find perfection</span></b></div>
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don’t look for it in an erection</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> My Final Word on Sex (Down, Boy!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps my
least appetizing memory of sex was in an improvisation class meant to help us
free our minds to become better playwrights. We were given some simple situation
with which to make free associations, and the key instruction of improv…go
along with whatever your partner says or does. A geeky boy, whose name I didn’t
know, interpreted this as permission to fly across the room and grab my then
younger and perkier breasts; stand on his toes and shove his tongue down my
throat. I pried him off and quit the group, but this is what often happens, at
least metaphorically, whenever women try to talk about sex. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, I’m a bit
old fashioned. I believe that sex is to be performed by two consenting adults
of any gender who want to get naked and jump into the fray. I don’t really
believe in talking, I believe in doing…just not with random men in a writing
class…or any educational setting. I have received two different phone calls
from two different Facebook men and did not realize until later that they were
looking for that legendary hot phone sex I had heard of, but never learned. I
just cheefully talked about the weather and what I had had for dinner. WELL, I
DIDN’T KNOW!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’M AN OLD LADY!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We didn’t need
to talk about it back in the nineteen seventies Free Love days. The most verbal
we ever got was reading the pages of The Joy of Sex old loud to my husband
while trying to place our knees and chins in the correct places that the flabby
Hippie Couple in the drawings were demonstrating. This usually ended in a
hysterically funny tangled crash to the floor followed by just DOING IT the
same old way but on the carpet instead of the bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although I can
write a fairly hot seduction scene in a play (Talking God) and give dirty
details (Amour Americain), I really never contemplated talking about any of my
own excited protrusions or tunnels. If I attempt it, I sound like Lilith
Sternin of “Frasier” with her emotionless, flat voice going “Oh do it, Baby. Do
it hard.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alas, no.
Despite my age and illness and unattractive body, I still believe it is
something to do in reality, not on the phone or on Skype. I’ve heard it can be
done so well in chat rooms that people pay, and you’d think as I playwright, I
would be interested. God knows, I could create a false identity for myself, become
Bambi the yodeling seventeen year old shepherdess, but you can already see I
simply can’t take it as seriously as the chat room experts need.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">
<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And what I
miss most about men is laying my cheek on a strong, denim covered shoulder, while
we talk about our day. I miss their scent and their laughter. I miss having our
fingers entwined as we walk silently breathing in Autumn air. Those little
closed mouth kisses hello and goodbye, which was my last physical contact with
a man and I’m smiling to remember it. So, I’m going to retire from all that and
formally announce that the VIP box is closed. My last experiences with actual
sex got worse and worse until that last pathetic, unexcited, inept tussle with
the wrong man. But my final memory of men will be a sweet, friendly kiss on the
lips with the right one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What more could
a girl want?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sonnet 96 – Elvira
Is Slowly Leaving the Building</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">
<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She moves like
Quasimodo, not Jagger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her hair is
white, her skin sags and wrinkles</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">
<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To walk with
cane has taken her swagger</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;">
<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And her day is
ruled by poops and tinkles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reading great
books was not her specialty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nor did she
paint or sing or play guitar</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She toyed with
dialogue’s simplicity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She was an
able worker, not a star</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In short, she was
simply not good enough</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For a well
read, talented, handsome man</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trust me,
Angel, admitting it is tough</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I have to
understand why you ran</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">May you find a
Queen worthy of your throne</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And makes both
your brain and manhood moan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Sonnet 95 -- Footnote in Some History Archival</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Real life is about cleaning the damned
house</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Cooking meals and washing the damned
dishes</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>I have no children or beloved spouse</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>It grows too late to make three
more wishes</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>I am not smart enough for you, my love</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>I do not possess your dazzling talents</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>But you aren’t good enough for me, sweet
Dove</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>You would never keep it inside your
pants</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>So here I stand with dishes needing
washed</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Papers to shred…a muffler to replace</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Worried about daring a rhyme of “frost”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>While the sags and wrinkles demean my
face</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>All we can hope for is raw survival</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span>Footnotes in some history archival</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sonnet 94 - Too Much Time On My Hands</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I guess I'm a bitchy grumpy old broad</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Too damn comfortable for my own good</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m sick and dull and obviously flawed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I could have I would have done what I
should</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And as you fade away, your beauty grows</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With dark eyes shining through papyrus
skin</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No more do I know what is truth or pose</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You won’t get a chance to make it again</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t have the strength to get to the
top</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My body’s too old to capture a man</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My theatrical life doth went kerflop</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fantasizing dumped my life in the can</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But still, I don’t mourn my life or my fate</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s just that we learned our lessons
too late</span></div>
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Sonnet 93 -- I'm getting too old for this sh*t</div>
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<br /></div>
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With the damned whole world falling to pieces</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And our lives being sold to the Devil</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The whining about love never ceases</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We mourn that boys no longer do revel</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
While we still are trying to please Mother</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Business picks our pockets clean and laughs </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Yet we weep that he left for another</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Dying our hair red or slimming our calves</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Daydreams of vampires sucking our necks</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Or men wishing to buy the youngest doll</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I fear that men are addicted to sex</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And all distracted by trips to the Mall</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
History cries to cease solipsism</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So dazzled by society’s prism</div>
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Sonnet 92 -- Learning What the Word Means<br />
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The years we spent at playing Love are lost</div>
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One must not try to bend it to our need</div>
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Demands and expectations raise the cost</div>
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And happiness is lost in selfish greed</div>
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We do not see the person, just the dream</div>
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A fantasy to rescue us from fears</div>
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And fill the hours sometimes with a scream</div>
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Addicting us to cheap dramatic tears</div>
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How much sweeter it is to simply care</div>
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With nothing of ourselves set on the line</div>
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The veil of selfish needs no longer there</div>
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We let them go to seek their needed sign</div>
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And stop the insanity called “In Love”</div>
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And offer simple care to rise above.</div>
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Reality is not a theater script</div>
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When fear and terror stills your fingertips</div>
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And a breathing human is torn and ripped</div>
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There’s too much stress as the hero lingers</div>
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I want it over and the curtain dropped</div>
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At last to get the car from the garage</div>
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And think about getting the bathroom mopped</div>
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Wash my hair and give the cell phone a charge</div>
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Reality kills my rescue daydream</div>
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I’ve played this scene a dozen times before</div>
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A man who needs a psychiatric team</div>
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Will reward generosity with war</div>
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No more of men other women don’t want</div>
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No more of being a pathetic c#nt</div>
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I see a riot of green and yellow</div>
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I’m wide awake beneath a blue May sky</div>
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The breeze is cool and the air is mellow</div>
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But the birds are few and the bees don’t fly</div>
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The night air goes into a sudden freeze</div>
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Yet in seven days the June sun will boil</div>
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The Winter and Summer dance in a tease</div>
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Both freezing and heating the seeded soil</div>
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As Earth descends into raw insanity</div>
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And we look into the birth of the end</div>
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All<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of us guilty of
depravity</div>
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Watching humanity go round the bend</div>
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Forgive us all you innocent species</div>
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Please survive the reign of human feces</div>
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</style><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes</span></span><br />
<h6 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m as inspired</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the Rumi dripping</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Buddha spewing</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aphorisms</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Want me to be.</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But then</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are days</span></span></h6>
<h6 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like this</span></span></h6>
<h6 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Where all the Breyers</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On Earth</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wouldn’t help.</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tell me </span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why the Hell</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I want what’s bad</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For aging female</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Playwrights</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like me.</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maybe</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s just</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Springtime allergies</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fucking up</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What’s left of</span></span></h6>
<h6 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My mind.</span></span></h6>
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<span class="messagebody"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></h6>
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