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Who puts all eggs in one basket,
bawls all begs in one ask it6 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 9 1:12 PM 2007. In Humor, Philosophy of Life -
The right inalienable to decide
Thus sane need to retain worldwide. -
Although accessibility at times appears an empty dream
Creative strategies MUST lead to recognition of this right -
Intent on gain, reign clover paid,
in tent on rain, pain overweighed.42 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 1 1:40 PM 2008. In Society, Ingenuities -
Spring water purchased in neat plastic bottle,
sports car equipped with an elegant throttle,
all must be sold, unemployment to throttle.56 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 25 3:37 PM 2007. In Society -
The carnival of carefree play too long has tripped its careless way as senseless as an ass’s bray while flesh from flesh Time stripped away
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After the funeral the Past departed with the last forced mourners, whose facial expressions with their tremolo of tics,
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One world rides into another as cad-I-lack rolls turns into the casino.24 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 1 4:22 AM 2007. In Society, Vers Libres
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Vain all Nature. In Time’s advancing stream
Vanitas ! vain grope, gloom dissolves Hope’s gleam
As nothing is this aimless scheme. -
When fingertips are offered and arms swallowed, when today's landmarks become tomorrow's watershed tears,
what self-respect survives to fo -
Two travelled on lines parallel while wheeled the reel of history, that reel ran out and then the bell
tolled once, - to tell eternity -
Rising waters. Few escape Eye’s aim.
Energies mischannelled, modern man,
Victim of needs perceived, no longer can -
AN artifact by accident, design, Time's spared though so few items grace fate's trace, Identified with culture, usage, race,
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synapses slowed, eyes dimmed, hair greyed,
parade band silent, spent perfume.
I passed as fast as flowers fade. -
I wander all alone and play with pebbles on the beach,
and wonder at the Milky Way which other men may reach. -
Automobiles take toll on the streets, decoded as route rout riot symbols trafficking influence, clash crash of status cymbals – so many cro
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Tsunamis tidal swamp towns, drown today, earthquakes pride deride as faraway too close for comfort has become, will weigh on global village
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Montezuma's tomb hides treasure hold,
or dust some Spanish pride parade would spade ?
Beauty, barter bait, alluring gold, -
She from his pocket book took note, he on her beauty hung his coat. Was this a fair exchange, a beast to beauty bound ? Affection ceased :
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Don't overestimate apparent reasons, rhymes of season's trial:
truth many seek, few find behind sphinx smile. -
December turns November's shredded page.
Complacent assumptions artificial
lose centre stage, as spirit must reguage -
Bernanke's hanky-panky and economics cranky. reduces rates for yankee on Wall Street sleek and swanky.
Bearded wonders lanky are sure to -
Pass in review true causal chain's formation
Envisage Russia in Afganistan,31 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 11 6:20 AM 2007. In Society -
Life’s pattern shifts as time from time’s thread stock mutates or waits on catalyst to key into, through, metamorphosis to free free-will
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Boris hugged me when we met jumping up outside the Kremlin, Gorbo-chief who’d love to get a jump on time, why just stuff that inside your h
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So lend an ear with second sight not third hand platitudes.
Send message clear, true progress steer, evolving attitudes. -
Profane, with bubble bray, most blow hot, cold on stage, then sink unheard before they even feel flow’s ripples stirred...
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Seven years on top:
Burnt out Bush comes a cropper, -
To make true change it takes a Biden and one B. One Biden and a B. And reverie. But reverie alone won't do 'til Palin's blue.
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can crime pay in our heyday white collar ?
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Where cash reasons not rhymes one would seize on where interest not principles pays,
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She thought she saw quite equal pay afforded equal work, she looked again and found it was a most unusual quirk. “That men should keep thei
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Crash victim seemed an ordinary man
whose karmic thread led to one time, one place,16 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 26 10:24 PM 2008. In Other -
We wanted nice Rice but she came with a whip,
a sad, inexcusable C.I.A. slip.
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Confronted with life's puzzle we
prepare discontinuity. -
Whoever could indict a land so serene vents spleen !
What other fields are brighter crops yellow, rust and greens ? what sense of humour l -
Chimp champion, ace trouble shooter,
was placed face value by recruiter -
abrogating ‘privacy’, whose dearth
is proof of dictatorial decree,
falls witness-victim sacrificed, with mirth209 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 2 11:11 AM 2008. In Society -
New revolution: paradigm shifts spin old top
to fresh confusion. polar bears, pandas bamboozled, -
Figurant half-hidden fades below / the plodding hoofs of half forgotten years, / from chariot to dray spanned, disappears. / Hansom, carria
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Silk, satin, laces,
hark lark, perks ! smirks lurk on jerks’
X rated faces. -
Commuting's fun once begun ! Morn, rise with sun - Milk, tea, bun. Unto station run, train don’t shun.
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What brave new world will blow the wind of change ?
What challenges create, what rearrange ? -
Before big bang rang changes whose range remains in flux Our atoms then were strangers to call of ‘fiat lux’. Along came fission’s fusion
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Infinity with din met meteorite, turned stone, clogged artery foot bill, no time repentance, sin.
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God returned to Her drawing-board
to discover the decimal point of error.
48 lines, 9 comments, on Feb 11 1:41 PM 2007. In Society -
From King George we'll independance win revolution justice will restore, our liberty remains life's only law, more freedom and less tax on
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Cusps converge then redivide, unexpectedly conceal symphonic links Time may reveal perchance some day tune runed inside, subtle riddles43 lines, 2 comments, on May 27 7:19 AM 2008. In Time, Philosophy of Life, Society, Acrostic, Sonnet
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The grain, who reaps the golden grain knows dust to dust’s returned again - though flesh may rot, one can’t impound the spirit risen, stren
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Monday Morning, full of dread, we pray
the postman no new bills will bring our way.21 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 16 10:19 PM 2007. In Society -
Over and beyond statistics, man
No pattern plays some say that can't be traced,
Links cross-referenced - route pinged, browser based. -
Early, late, while he dares grate counter Fate,
Surly hate, wily heirs wait, counterfeit -
Decisions take, nor hesitate nor bide
Excessive time awaiting from outside -
thud upon empty spring stomach
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Hussein and the Pushy-Cat sent for free Electoral College vote,
poured pork-barrel honey, and plenty of money guaranteed by a Lehmann not -
Response half-hearted raised its head then turned the other cheek upon some rumpled pillow bed, forgetting how to speak.
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From darkness stark may flesh fresh flake again,
unfettered spark, from wake wake, cry_oh_gain ? -
Put in power lasts an hour, Sad damned man's did too, when the spell in spelling's broken, Shah "I ran" would rue.
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Time is not measured by dates sucked from its maw, plucked by those who want more than sense, but through the causal braid
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When boom doom of distant drum turns all laughter topsy-turvy; when ghost of Chrismas-yet-to-come -
what the dickens ! - makes one nervy. -
Don't grieve, but, leave, departing in a trice - better alone than groan pain doubled twice. 'If of himself he will not love' advice is aca
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Tired men react to role-reversing reel,
Harsh judgement pass upon deceptions deep.
Exit by bear pursued few locks will keep -
Beyond Time’s dark, incessant, grind,
find ways with creativity
to soar, explore, - scope redesigned -55 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 1 12:50 AM 2008. In Society, Cause and Effect, Alphabetical Jonathan Robin -
"Time echoes onwards though the soul’s struck dumb."
"Will there be time for me and all who seek ?"
"Come, come ! - the tocsin ticks to -
Life's cycle turns as candle burns, warms all within its beams, ~ road cats' eyes take, make no mistake, tomorrow threads your dreams ...
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Famine, furtive first, assertive soon,
slaked thirst , eased hunger, skull s[k]ulked, grim lampoon. -
Cycles some would modify
could cull all promise from the future, -
Anorexic li[n]e schemes superficial.
No leeway as will o' whi[s]p mannequin
Yearning for frustration's runway vent thin -
Times of trouble sponge solutions new, insight inks page which once seemed whitewash blank. Grief is patient.
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Fate, judge and jury, sharpens stings
while Time, deceitful, pulls Life’s strings
then buries memory. -
Winged on one page of Destiny, love, amity and emity,
lend flashpoint sparkle swiftly we abandon for eternity. -
The layman’s comprehension is stretched from nowt to doubt, to up the spout - attention strong’s sought from louts change flout.
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Forced “progress’” pace, accelerating years race onwards, spiral with increasing speed, each chasing each proclaiming global need,
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Deny temptations of soft ride, ease superficial, risks unquantified, choosing “safe way”, straight road comfort fed, idea[l]s mediocre are
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Fake, fake, fake on the canvas tau[gh]t I see, while the auction records tumble – uncounterfeited glee !
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Fallen is star which once brightly, once clear from sheer firmament shone, no trace now remains as Time lightly grieves over life’s leaves
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no stone unturned, - deserved, ill earned - in search of mirage dreams22 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 27 12:38 AM 2008. In Society
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Fool, fretting, dares not,
rushes to comply, won’t qualify, eats humble pie.
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Cast off passed footprints, seek to trace vast mark unique on Future's face, winnow Past's chaff from grain - no pain proves state of grace42 lines, 24 comments, on Apr 6 2:12 AM 2005. In Nature, Philosophy of Life, Hope, Thoughts, Society
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anthropocentricity
▸ noun: an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values -
Is man omniscient, tinkering inside DNA seen as 'Drive Nature Aside' ? self-catalyst for causal time-bomb burst as Chronos swallows humanki
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When the last Home Page is indexed, content filtered, untried, and the oldest critic muzzled, youngest webmaster tried, we'll pass to a pea
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start from mutual hope,
then progress to shared scope -
from confusion to fusion’s conclusion. -
Yet who with such a moral takes
that track retracts his own mistakes ? -
I am tsunami tidal, dimensions suicidal,
to flood proud flame, drown aim, tame fame,
maim celebrations bridal... -
Wide world, two hundred years ago, was held in thrall to pall of war, with many victims. Few foresaw the outcomes chosen by Time's flow.
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Gather stashed chips up while you may, for time's chimes are a- flying,
though luck still sees the light today soon boon may be denying. -
Youth thrives on change for sake of change
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Apart they stand, their handiwork behold
mercilessly, as sun, moon, stars are rolled
around their orbits, teach each to obey -
Liberation from within unites
soul to whole soul, tears wail's veil, scales true heights. -
One admires Ideal excuses which find buyers reminding that through thin and thick external trappings weave their wires so skillfully to sui
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Acceleration
of knowledge acquisition
destabilisation -
Through bursting buds peep
Spring's stray blooms to fey beauty
doomed slaves stay asleep -
Browned chestnuts roasting,
present wraps reflect past fire
downed champagne toasting -
Strange how climate change
now flakes floes' snows - warm air flows -
rice for ice hex change -
Lateral thinking
overspills the boundaries
of the mind, winking -
‘One last look !’ she cried.
Sleep steals over lost spirit -
closed book, open eyed. -
Misunderstanding
from heart of darkness issue
tissues, sighs, white lies. -
Midnight Metro scene:
subtle population change,
on reflection, seen. -
Thus pen and inkles
etch link lined identities
where ink page sprinkles. -
Quote Aristotle : 15 words Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Jonathan Robin -
Heart and mind at different speeds ever run as women, men, affirm priorities and then regret few key to cue which feeds the codes which fun
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as distant echo rumbles into awareness tracking first metro bright light tunnels through darkness before hoar dawn’s glow
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Time’s bet at last is cast - who’ll win once all is said ?
Ecosystems are in jeopardy. Democracy ? – its own worst enemy.
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Home they brought her lap-top dead,
got her back up, loud she cried, -
Warped window panes, if not antiques, are holey, front door creaks, we’re far too far from chic boutiques, unbid by arab sheiks.
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Bubbles boiling in the kettle test their mettle gainst
the metal. Atoms, constantly turmoiling,pressure steam which soars uncoiling -
Much damage has been done to Sunni, Kurd, in Desert Storm, to Shia too - but less by far surely than that collateral called up to bar Trust49 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 4 12:34 AM 2007. In Society, Contemporary
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I remember, I remember the house where I was born
before foreclosure took away the homestead I had sworn
in good faith, all attest 'tis t -
If men could read in fee_male thoughts
then states would triple child supports,
and second states would not be torts -
If you can keep your cheese while few about you are holding onto theirs', all envy ease.
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Out of thin air there sudden springs alive a windy wink turned category five, son of sun, air, and warmer water which blows minds away, - n43 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 10 4:45 PM. In Nature
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Sweltering Bagdad : cold sweat dichotomy
between electricity grid lock
green zone security block,4 lines, on Aug 6 6:58 PM 2007. In Society -
In the village life repeats summer heats to summer heats, season after season greets echoes drummed, - past, present beats.
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Whate’er the reasons that decide
the insolence of the individual; - bled
by fears, or blessed by wisdom wide, -
The silent seconds, spendthrift, greedy glide: -
dovetail decades to centuries for waiting dead,28 lines, 15 comments, on Nov 9 1:16 PM 2007. In Society -
The Age of Information dawned when war saw systems seeming stable forced apart.44 lines, 2 comments, on Jun 30 5:11 PM 2007. In Society
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I dreamed that disabilities priority became for polititians, that disease defeated was, the same rights, equal opportunities were granted
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Bonanza dreams, boon nailed, no shows,
so stanza schemes soon fail, flow slows. -
When choice is confiscated by little minds or might,
scope's rightful place vacated when bigotry or spite40 lines, 2 comments, on Apr 22 12:29 PM 2008. In Society -
Love is decried
or set aside as subjectivity
unjustified by all allied to blind psychiatry.45 lines, 1 comment, on Mar 4 9:41 PM. In Society -
Is revenge bliss restoring some equilibrium ?
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Reflect on shine whose light seems calculated to serve as shield behind an iron blind, unsated floe on salt sea floats unkind.
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'Cause Sarah would not stop for B. he put a stop to me; elections held November 4 proved Immorality.
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Polyglot gluttons' following propaganda disregarded dodo, ignore panda, polymorphs nest, while humans pander to plastic cards swallowing4 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 8 6:32 PM 2008. In Society
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Today, blank slate but barely scratched
must soon, with predecessors matched,
discover that it is despatched -
REsponsible reponse reveals real reel
Enlacing embellishment empyreal. -
REsponsible reponse reveals real reel
Enlacing embellishment empyreal. -
Hold convictions high, spurn compromise,
To learn to learn, not follow others’ lies.
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Thin red line dividing debt
from freedom fails, harsh hammer falls, -
No Joker may be played as panacea,
shared harmony adversity can conquer.
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Time waits on time till Cause, Effect combine.
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Little man lost, curling up very small when nobody notices he's there at all, hush, hush, whisper who dare, all seems unfair when
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Against the 'current', with the stream of light and life he'd soar serene, is it surprising that strong gleam stayed long unshared ?
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The moral of this simple sonnet's seen :
make hay while sun still shines, seek pastures green. -
Many links extended, t[r]end outwards into light,
As rainbow drops descended dispense due dew delight.
New roads must be defended to sti20 lines, 11 comments, on Apr 7 5:02 AM 2008. In Society, Thoughts, Acrostic Sonnet, Philosophy of Life -
No more floor dance, no performance, cast is fast askance,
Time encircles all stalls and circles, silence, footloose, heavy falls. -
Midnight not a soul on bare scene left, like fair heart that has been reft from its beat on the stage.
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CARPE DIEM’s intrinsically unwhimsical cryptic mystic slick MAD RECIPE lick may DICE, REMAP anagrams to activate grammatical analogies thro57 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 13 8:46 AM. In Vers Libres, Humor, Spiritual, Thoughts, Weird, Society, Life, Other, Contemporary
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Multilingual input generates interactions as synaptic flows call into question limits scaled, propose an interplay as mind anticipates alte
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from flight bright feathered pheasant falls.
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Man's mortal coil like Alcatraz unwinds as time destroys free guarantees of razzmatazz immortality enjoys.
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Two downcast eyes tried to remember recalling fertile past's pastures.
Abandoned town counted cost of current climatic disasters.
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A gourmand moth by night, unheard, had guzzled
the words by day enlightened man might write.
That God should tolerate their fate I’m puzz -
I sat me down before the screen reflecting on Fate’s twist, on how my scope was narrow, mean when web did not exist. Regretted Internet has
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Nature knows no aberration
Only balance, evolution
Allowing life anticipation -
Bernanke expounds,
dollar [g]reefs on global seizure
sum subprime surrounds -
For centuries man from the sun sought guiding light, but cycles turn, - where light is now one day will none
remain to kindle hope or burn18 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 6 4:15 PM 2007. In Philosophy of Life, Thoughts -
Each decade new knowledge doubles while
Selfish expansion puts mankind on trial ...
Marched on unheeded till he learned to sow -
Over peaks sun peeks, sloughs off whisp cloud,
Lingers long, strong shines as time advances. -
From cradle to the grave red tape surrounds
sad citizen stakes wasteful battlegrounds -
When we consider all our freedoms lost with HA ! BE U.S. ! Corpus of bush law, black death to hide the whitewash when p’lice score ’gainst
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Prejudice when wishful thinking mocks advancing voice or crystal image which unlocks outlook unfortunate or blocks desired solution grievin
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We p[l][a]y our way just once while Fate prepares
E ffect and Cause to synchronize one chance -
Think of a reign eighty years long, patience a vain rein to headstrong, growing again, from weak to strong, legerdemain eighty years long.
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One wonders what wonders tomorrow may bring to the man in the street when freedoms are traded to borrow a credit card kitchen complete.
49 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 11 8:17 AM 2008. In Society -
All their world’s a page, and all the players Internet addicted, they have their resumés, their pseudonyms, each actor for a time plays man35 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 22 4:53 PM. In Humor, Parody, Life, Society, Thoughts, Contemporary, Vers Libres
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The ageing coroner carefully cast an open verdict there,
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