Wednesday, March 11, 2009
On Cold Feet
This is a comment I left on a blog by Ray Rossi about a survey on people regretting their marriages and his account of how his proposal to his wife and his lack of regret was the result of the traumatic experience of a friend and co-worker. The longtime girlfriend of the co-worker left him for...
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Monday, March 9, 2009
I have a new column
Every two weeks a new article: http://johnsonvillepress.com/wordpress/?p=146
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Maybe Our Lives Just Suck
Maybe Our Lives Just Suck You have heard the ads, no doubt. If I have, I who hardly ever watches TV and whose radio listening cannot be classified as regular, then you have certainly heard them. You are asked if you are sad all the time. This is done in several ways so more people can answer "yes"....
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
A repost because it was sort of Ash Wednesdayish
Loser I am nobody. Nobody is me. I am paid nothing. I work for free. There is nothing left At the end of the day, Nothing but dust Which you kick Out of the way, Bereft of ashes Of the life that never was. Dust I was. I have returned Without life Or remembrance. Copyright © 2007 by C. P. Klapper
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts a Foster completed Dear friends and gentle hearts Across the ungentle way When bitter times have split us apart And scattered the sunshine's rays These words of mine lie dim and cold As the lips that now would say them For they were many, many times sold To ears that...
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Monday, February 2, 2009
The Triangle of Past, Present and Future
The Triangle of Past, Present and Future Go with your destiny but be certain of it. As for the Past You will always have Paris Wherever Paris was for you. Copyright © 2009 by C. P. Klapper
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Possessing Morality
Possessing Morality They seek power becoming as gods By possessing morality the knowledge of good and evil They hide from the light they are naked and afraid They hide from life They shall surely die They are possessed by morality In sorrow they eat of it They are consumed by power To dust they...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Slow Dance
Slow Dance I'll take your hand And then again your hips As we sway with the music So slowly towards our dips For a lunch, then a dinner In a calmer week Where we talk of whatever And you are so tres chic We savor the aroma Of our dinner and our wine Of our steps and each other Drawn closer to the...
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Monday, January 26, 2009
America For Sale
America For Sale When exactly were the bids put up? Or was there even an auction? If America went to the highest bidder Then that at least would be fair. There would be notices, Notices that people would notice, So the people would notice that their country, That land that was supposed to be my land...
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
The Winds of Change
The Winds of Change O, he came in on the winds of change alright As the funders of his party and of him Swept the wealth of their companies into their pockets Then shook all the change from widows and orphans Each penny that they might. O, he brought change before he took power As his party's...
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