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              This is replacing As It Happens.  Wodan speaks, but not here yet.
He is riding in from the west/southwest.  The day is overcast.  The full moon
hides.  The dgd means dumpster ghost day.  Recent events have been a bit
odd.  Due to an Archambeau post about copyright and intellectual property
and poetic sensibility, and to a lengthy Jacket interview: Jerome Rothenberg
responding to questions from Nina Zivancevic, it was about midnight before
I raised myself into bed, and shortly thereafter the resident in the apartment
above came home.  I awoke a little after 2 AM, and as I was hungry, I ate
a cup of blueberry yogurt.  I awoke again at what I thought was 4:41 but
when I got back to bed my cellphone clock said 6:58.  I was certain (?) I
had not had a seizure.  The medication I have been taking for nearly three
years has kept me seizure-free.  I doubt I was abducted since even aliens
chortle when they hear my name.  I guess I just read the time wrong.  At 
AM 9:20, Wodan spoke once; and since I had other things to do, I shut this
virtual-access system down.  It is now AM 10:31.  The wan sunlight is no
longer wan, but the layer of clouds persists.  There is a football-like green
patch over Joplin headed this way.

[ Note: Robert Archambeau's post is dated: tuesday, september 25, 2007
          and its title is: Intellectual Property and the Invention of the Poet ]

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Three nights ago, not wanting to read from any of the books at hand, I went
to my meager library and pulled out Sylvia Plath's Ariel.  I had last read it
years ago.  "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" remain my favorites.  I found myself
afterwards internally imitating her often curt sentences and insistent rhythms 
and hard-biting rhymes.

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The English language is messed up.  Therefore, I've recently been tooling with
the problems inherent in the she-he-they sector.  I have fixed those problems
(annoyances), but my fix is not likely to appeal to many, if to any.  A she-he 
fix I support has existed for a number of years.  I do not know who first used 
it.  It is: s/he.  Two reasons I like this are rooted in biology.  Another
reason is its compactness. 

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If I counted correctly, there are 18 poems in my Autobio group.
I'm not sure what to do about them, but I'm against adding more.
What's there could be considered a small e-chap.  So a
links page to them may be the best solution. 



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Death of a Student, Chapter 2         by Wick Sloane
I first became aware of above when I visited Silliman's Blog today.
I do not want to say what Sloane wrote, but everyone should read it.


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Brian A. J. Salchert