sw00653st24-me.and.others

Good morning.  This is a man who has made many wrong choices,
however unintentionally.  Can those choices be blamed on person-
ality flaws, mental disabilities, unfounded fears, and so on?  Perhaps.
Good morning again.  This is a man, being imperfect, who can't say 
 he will not continue to make wrong choices, however many right 
choices he also makes.  Quite often/ choices are made, not because
one desires to injure oneself or some other, but because of a need 
to explore, to learn, to better understand oneself.  But it is possible 
to do the latter in relatively safe ways.  Good morning.
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I am not going to go into the implications of what I have written,
nor am I going to give examples.  They are simply thoughts worth
pondering.
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Alas, risk is a penchant of mine which/ has been obsessive at times.
That is one of the "reasons" I am drawn to the making of poems.
"Madman" is one of the numerous nicknames I've had.  That was in 
the last decade of the last century.  I did not attempt to discover
why I was so labeled.



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Due to the updating I'm enmeshed in, an essay on E. A. Robinson
has been sitting in draft for days over at my Rodingeedaddee blog.
Had I been able to avoid visiting blogs where intriguing discussions
of literature occur, I would have finished the updating days ago;
but I do not want to avoid those blogs.  Earlier I read "Classical
Music Between Adorno and Bourdieu" at Robert Archambeau's
samizdatblog, a post which is also about poetry and history.  There
are approximately a dozen blogs I visit regularly.  Until this year I
had kept myself deleteriously isolated.  Even if I am always merely
tolerated by those whose blogs I visit, I need the knowledge they
share.



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PM 12:04 - For the next five days (including today) the weather
will essentially be non-weather.



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Entered a fill-in-the-blanks Spicer/Lorca poem try-it// 
on Jonathan Mayhew's blog.  I doubt/ any word I used/ 
is right.



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Before 10 PM I visited Detainees, and while there I
took a link to another post on that blog.  As I was reading,
my security system lost it.  Got it to working again, but when
I tried to get back to my blog via the backspace arrow, the
screen froze.  Had to turn my computer off using the toggle
on the surge protector.  Not sure what caused the problem.
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Brian A. J. Salchert                   

sw00628st8-7poets

We're back to partly cloudy in Springfield, MO.
At PM 2:45 the sky is mostly clear.

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See my "Other Journals" for links to the following:
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John Latta continues to intrigue with his Furlani / Davenport posts.
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Ironic "Poetry Needs To Be More Academic" post at Mark Wallace's site.
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Linh Dinh
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Reyes Cardenas (R C)
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Until I work out a definition of my own, I favor
Jonathan Mayhew's definition of logopoeia.
There's a link to his blog in my Other Journals list.
See his 9-10-2007 and 9-12-2007 posts.
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Some minutes ago I perused 20 non-linear poems at 
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen's nlpoetry.livejournal.com site.
The 5th one down (the 1st of the sep 4 photos) is the
nlp of the 20 on that page which most appeals to me.

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AAP's American Poet, a journal I have never seen, was in my
mailbox today.  I've paged through it &/ read one short poem by 
Judson Evans.  Unless s/he uses words in a singular unwavering 
way, a reader cannot learn much from one poem.  Will get back
to this journal later.


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English Verse


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Brian A. J. Salchert