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Hummed Hammerstein songs push forth fresh flowers in the months of summer, thereafter twilight.
Chemical constituents crack facades of impure limestone cleaving rock in two parts.
Travertine,
coquina,
when first quarried are strong one out-proves the other in strength.
I know your ruse dear sedimental flower - thrusting yourself forth a wooly gray exterior a yellow center.
But you live so high up at 2900 feet that no one will pick you.

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New York Marathon: Nov. 4To those marrying soon and others giving the subject some serious thought:
      tell them to run like marathoners through the boroughs of New York City wearing wedding gowns and black tailored tuxedos. Run until lungs and hearts burn with familiarity only known to veteran runners crowding the bridge over the Verrazano Narrows.
Pay no attention to Wagner and weaved words of ceremonial binding; listen for the starting gun.
And go.
After twenty-six point two miles, they'll realize this isn't a comin New York Marathon: Nov. 4
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Shakespeare Reads HolinshedWe are built on blood, you and I.
After Caesar laid waste to our primitive earthworks
we built new veins of stone while we watched Gauls stand firm.
When Latin left our mouths what were we to speak
but blood oaths to our brothers?
In truth, we were always waiting to be usurped by false uncles
promising peace and delivering war. Shakespeare Reads Holinshed
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Lewis and Clark, 1804Merriwether, we were never interested in horizons.
I had seen the striped colors of a vibrant red and orange sun setting over mountains back in the East when things were small and complicated.
Jefferson told us to be agents of the new government promoting peace, trade.
Hands and arms on the dappled pirogue claimed difference with the national interest.
We left St. Louis with more than these meager men.
You keep to your botany and I'll reserve my solitude. Lewis and Clark, 1804
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Caleb Young, MathematicianTeaching mathematics to the next generation is a matter of fact. Students, finding the an unknown variable we label 'X' often need the instruction offered by previous masters. Though the power to teach aspiring students their logarithms and matrices is vested as trust in me where was the power by which I could tell that marriage added was one plus one equaling two, and when divided only leaves the one behind? Caleb Young, Mathematician
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Untitled Manuscript Post #2

Thu Nov 30, 2006, 4:46 PM

Listening to: Ca$his - Everything is Shady
Reading: Allison Funk's Living at the Epicenter

Looking through old drafts, I reviewed and revised the poem "The Memoires of Irvin McDowell...," and was presented with a new motif - military disasters as emblematic metaphors. I have a pretty good idea that it'll develop into a chapbook titled, "Lessons of War."

Thinkin', I guess.

Thanks,
D.J. Luman

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Current Residence: Peoria, Illinois
Favourite movie: Sin City
Favourite band or musician: Common, Aesop Rock
Favourite genre of music: Hip-Hop
Favourite poet or writer: Allison Funk, Lee Newton
Operating System: Mac
Favourite gaming platform: PlayStation
Favourite cartoon character: Master Shake
Tools of the Trade: Ledger book (for drafts), Papermate Click pens (Black), Legal Paper (For playing with form)