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10    As It Happens
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 When it rains quietly, nearby above is a metal thing
 upon which the rain's sounds seem like a tune being
 played on a distant marimba.  This morning I found
 possible words for the chorus of that tune:
                         Whoooole an-nd gentle
                         Is the only way I need you;
                         the only way I want you..

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 Pulling the left edge of the drape in my living room
 back/ to ostensibly check the sky, which moments
 ago was ridge cloudy, my eyes fixed on the staunch
 bush I had taken several photographs of when ice
 sheathed it: scintillant ice when the sun shone.  This
 day it is pushing forth light green leaves and white
 blossoms.

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 Yesterday I slid into my docs space and cleaned up
 Usta Mari, and then printed both it and The Forty-One
 Days of Kim.  Not sure I'll be posting them today in 
 Venturings, but I may.

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 In The Best American Poetry 2006:
 Billy Collins, Editor | David Lehman, Series Editor
 is "Toward Some Bright Moment", a poem by
 Stephen Dobyns which centers on experience,
 reflection, empathy, regret, and self-knowledge.
 In my inner self, I applauded Stephen, and
 thanked him.

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 Mutt Object
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     "Dog On"

     Matching
     mongrels  

     merrily
     marching

     mountainous
     miles

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 Much of this afternoon, as dark rolls of clouds coursed
 from northwest to southeast, rain with thunder & lightning
 and/or thunder & lightning and/or thunder coursed with
 them.  So, after unplugging my computer system a second
 time, I moved my surge protector, monitor, cpu, and
 keyboard/mouse/modem/phone table to locations I am
 more comfortable with.  I sit on a medical stool three feet
 from my monitor.  I also changed how the keyboard and
 mouse wires connected to the cpu, and how the cord for
 the surge protector ran to the wall socket I plug it into.
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 It has become my habit when thunder grumbles/ to turn
 my computer off if I am using it.  [ Partly because it is 
 programmed to turn itself offwhen I am away from it
 for ten minutes, I do not leave it on unless I return to it
 in less than seven minutes to make afew key strokes so
 it "knows" I do not intend to shut downyet. ]  If I hear 
 thunder grumbles more than one time, I shut this system
 down, unplug the phone/highspeed jack, turn off the surge
 protector, and unplug the protector's cord.  I would unplug
 the protector's cord before turning the protector off, but
 I have sometimes noted sparks from sockets in this place
 when I was unplugging a cord.  Paranoia?  Some sometimes.



Brian A. J. Salchert