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July/August/September entry      [ last modified: 2008-08-02 ]


  for links to 1976 Today see Dec. 30 in 2006 archive
a * indicates one of the selected 49 which are in this August 2007 archive

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July: Year-day 183
  Today my doctor informed me the fluid          |   illness and the gods
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July: Year-day 184
  Poetic theories abound, as well as          |   me and Richard Kostelanetz
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July: Year-day 185
  Not so sure about the efficacy          |   gratitude for centered energies
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July: Year-day 186
  All the people out there cracking their fires,         |   Independence Day
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July: Year-day 187
  Population zero: that's where I'm at.          |   heterosexual love
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July: Year-day 188
  And the tall ships glide up the bay, the river--          |   humanity
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July: Year-day 189
  Elizabeth the Second dines in state          |   Rose Garden visit
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July: Year-day 190
  "Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected          |   reflections on Emerson quote
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July: Year-day 191
  Ride on, troubadour, carrying to all          |   poem-making 
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July: Year-day 192
  Most of those starvation enslaves don't die          |   others' sufferings and me
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July: Year-say 193
  It isn't easy to care about you,          |   about my fool self
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July: Year-day 194
  Those politically exiled, by right,          |   sensitive rage
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July: Year-day 195
  Dream state after dream state after dream state,          |   weird dreams
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July: Year-day 196
  And conventioneers tiptoe on the planks          |   political platforms
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July: Year-day 197
  How often I stopped just short of that field          |   uncertain change of heart
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July: Year-day 198
  Spritely in the gust an US flag flaps          |   with hope for my nation
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July: Year-day 199
  Perfection is the human dream, the flame          |   Olympians
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July: Year-day 200
  If I can love you more than you can love me,          |   about me to a loved one
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July: Year-day 201
  The wind today is that exciting kind          |   imaginings and reality
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July:Year-day 202*
  And unimaginably far away          |   evolution beyond the biological
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July: Year-day 203
  Some days when time is short I wish I could          |making a sonnet
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July: Year-day 204
  I write: for myself, for others, for you.          |   why and to what end
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July: Year-day 205
  Since AM 4 I have been/ stupid tired,          |   a bit down but maybe not
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July: Year-day 206
  Extra hours at work/ because it is summer,          |   writing and athletes
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July: Year-day 207
  Long end-of-the-period night again,          |   night audit vignette
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July: Year-day 208
  After living on bananas for two          |   a look at the whirled
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July: Year-day 209
  Moses, Babshoff, Wilkins, Cofin, Naber,          |   a look at Olympians
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July: Year-day 210
  Persistence is the kingdom of the wise          |   my unknowable self
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July: Year-day 211
  Overstrained my constitution again,          |   and the results thereof
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July: Year-day 212  *
  In China last night many were told: take          |   misfortunes
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July: Year-day 213
  Let me nominate today Poland's day          |   praise for the Poles
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August: Year-day 214
  The prosaic and poetic truth is:          |   world athlete freedom
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August: Year-day 215
  Censorship?  Feed 'em hell, the brilliant little          |   ignorance and insularity
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August: Year-day 216
  What's remembered last is remembered worst          |   at this time
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August: Year-day 217
  Noises in the park, highthawks screeching peace,          |   giving
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August: Year-day 218
  Being Supreme, Rune, thank You for my life;          |   gratitude and
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August: Year-day 219
  Lord, let your great ones/ rise up from the poor,          |   beseechings
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August: Year-day 220
  The end has come; the end will come again.          |   reincarnation
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August: Year-day 221
  The weary traveler rests his bones.  Oh yah?          |   nature's revenge
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August: Year-day 222
  Hurricane Belle is ringing up the coast,          |   resisting toward freedom
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August: Year-day 223
  "Still to this world its wondering beginner"          |   to Nemerov about naming
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August: Year-day 224
  Wladymir Cieszynski: deep poet, seed,          |   of an acquaintance
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August: Year-day 225
  "Hell is other people" said Jean-Paul Sartre;       |   hell, heaven, people
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August: Year-day 226
  Conflicts of the spirit.  Life against life.          |   life and regrets
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August: Year-day 227  *
  Many of these sonnets many may say          |   aspects of insanity
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August: Year-day 228
  America, you crawl, walk, run, leap, fly,          |   striving
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August: Year-day 229  *
  Mr. and Mrs. Goldfinch dine on a thistle,          |   delight
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August: Year-day 230
  I am the man who didn't know what's good          |   self-recrimination
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August: Year-day 231
  In the heart of my heart a red wind blooms,          |   regarding the subject
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August: Year-day 232
  Ford and Dole; Carter and Mondale; McCarthy:          |   candidates
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August: Year-day 233  *
  Precursor, owl of seredipity,          |   position statement
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August: Year-day 234
  And the answer is:  I don't care enough.          |   unfixable faults
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August: Year-day 235
  Choosing priorities: the fight between          |   overcoming "but"
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August: Year-day 236  *
  Of course I want to kill and kill, and have,          |   attitude towards others
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August: Year-day 237
  To what world, if not this, do I belong          |   self-aggrandizement
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August: Year-day 238
  Aah, people hassles, hassles with oneself--          |   vagrant reflections
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August: Year-day 239
  Asked what I know, I find I want to blurt          |   not I, but all of us
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August: Year-day 240
  As much as I moan, the luck of the draw          |   presence through words
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August: Year-day 241
  Discotheques of discontent/ & delight,          |   what is and could be
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August: Year-day 242
  "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away,          |   what should be but isn't
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August: Year-day 243  *
  It is now November twenty-fifth, Jamie,          |   time-warped observations
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August: Year-day 244
  Heading east?  Yes.  Jerusalem?  Mecca?  No.          |   a new venture
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September: Year-day 245
  Opening and leaving, lightening: trying          |   moving
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September: Year-day 246  *
  Popcorn and swizzle sticks.  Who can I trust?          |   a fool of no worth
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September: Year-day 247
  Time is, was, will be, gets away, yet holds          |   imperfection
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September: Year-day 248
Meet byintermingling, centered in care,          |   equality
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September: Year-day 249
  The idea is to be a tone master,          |   poem-making
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September: Year-day 250  *
If what I write strengthens your spirit, peaches!          |   and truth deferred
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September: Year-day 251
  Sometimes a man doesn't know where to start,          |   what the physical impairs
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September: Year-day 252
  Civilizations: reaction formations          |   replacing nations with new arts
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September: Year-day 253
  It might be nice just to write this and give          |   since freely blessed, freely give
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September: Year-day 254
  West Bend to Oakland City, Wis to Ind,          |   making a visit
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September: Year-day 255
  So many of us are so unaware          |   the end of humanity as we know it
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September: Year-day 256
  The longer I live, the larger my view;          |   or: don't I wish
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September: Year-day 257
  Remembrances / fantasies: Mt. Tam--          |   the I and others
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September: Year-day 259
  If war is insane--and it is, the only          |   could we but fix us
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September: Year-day 260  *
  Your shining rings of love move, befuddle me,          |   reason amid mysteries
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September: Year-day 261
  Naked Festival.  Or a symphony          |   me and the human condition
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September: Year-day 263
  A great sadness lives in the marrow of          |   vice, virtue, and a plea
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September: Year-day 264
  Yesterday, in a five o'clock steady rain          |   the ineffable
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September: Year-day 265
  Commemorations of conniption fits:          |   reason undermined
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September: Year-day 266
  How many confessions are there in me          |   and yet a request
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September: Year-day 267  *
  Attended a picnic once--it was sunny,          |   we humans and events
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September: Year-day 268
  Justice--cracker barrel encomiums;          |   about humans
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September: Year-day 269
  Trying to sing without songing, I pull          |   sonnet talk
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September: Year-day 270
  Hamanity and I are parting ways.          |   yup
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September: Year-day 271
  And Jesus bore the burdens of us all--          |   and so
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September: Year-day 272
  Thecarmelled-apple dream of moving on,          |   addled essence
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September: Year-day 273
  When aman cares so/  he cries, beauty comes:          |   civilization and beyond
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September: Year-day 274
  Men, whole, tend toward good; their organizations,|   opinions

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