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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
-- Frank Moore Colby
How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a
statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more
glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through
which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the
day, that is the highest of arts.
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"
Bumper sticker:
All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British
manufacture.
Kin, n.:
An affliction of the blood.
Command, n.:
Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in
such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away"
-- Philip K. Dick
I think that I shall never see
A thing as lovely as a tree.
But as you see the trees have gone
They went this morning with the dawn.
A logging firm from out of town
Came and chopped the trees all down.
But I will trick those dirty skunks
And write a brand new poem called 'Trunks'.
Thursday, 13 August 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
