Presidents' Day and Beyond

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Presidents' Day

by

Billy McBride



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Copyright © 2013, by William McBride

ISBN 978-1-300-96681-4



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I awoke from a dream in which I found a small treasurehidden in a secret place. Since my Angel wives knewabout this dream, Arielle, one of them, hugged me as Iwoke up and was very excited telling me that I mustremember where I left a secret object that was very special.She said that a very long time ago I hid it someplace, insideanother object, and that I must find it again.

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I searched my room and found a basket with a felt heart ontop. She said that the secret object was inside the felt ofthe container. I was able to get inside it after unloosing a

bow and I removed a little treasure from it.

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In the next room, my den was a candle arrangement which

I thought very impressive. The previous night we spentarranging many candlesticks to make an interestingcomposition on a desk in the very center of the room.

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Unfortunately the night before I had to call the police aboutthe prostitution ring in my neighborhood which was

bothering me very much.

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My Mom called me to see if I would like to get groceriesand to come home for a visit. I told her that was a goodidea.

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Whenever I pop some gum into my mouth I have a saying Ialways repeat. I always say "virgin gum one." I had somegum and chewed it.

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A local classical radio that I listened to was very kind totake my request later for later in the evening to playBeethoven's Pastoral Symphony, which I wanted to hearafter seeing that an author wrote about it in a book which Isped read.

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That morning on Presidents' Day I returned a book to thelibrary next door before my Mom came. It was a bookabout Emily Dickinson's life.



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Also, I remember speaking recently about my Facebookfriend's book on sleep deprivation and spirituality to her.Her picture on Facebook looked like Jodi Foster.

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I had been reading recently Shakespeare's Two Noble Kinsmen . I thought much about my wife Elaine as I wasreading it and how good in the best sense of the wordShakespeare is.

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When my Mom came to pick me up to go to the grocerystore I said goodbye to my cat Nellie.

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At the grocery market I remembered to choose certainfoods based of what I happened to be speed reading at thetime. I had been reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time and what I would get that day depended upon my memory

of what I read.

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So I put Lipton Tea in my basket.



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I put blueberry Nutri-Grain bars in my cart.

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I bought my Angel wives red roses and some bamboo.

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On that Presidents' Day sale, I put a few Jelly BellyPuddings in my cart, being that each cost $1.00.

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Everything that I put into my cart was based on referencingitems mentioned in Proust's book.

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Grape Crush was added.

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Beef Stroganoff, a Hungry Man Cheesburger, and BlackBread (from a suggestion by Harold Bloom in his book

Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine ). Every mention offood that I could remember reading was taken as asuggestion as to what I should purchase at the store. Books



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influenced me as a shopping list does.

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I put Spumanti Champagne in my basket.

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Dante Pinkflowers from Italy had recently become myFacebook friend, so I went back for more pink roses.

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I chose Wrigley's 5 Peppermint gum.

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It was Presidents' Day and most of the cashiers who hadvoted for our new President were thrilled as I was too.

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I went out to the parking lot to listen to music whilewaiting for my Mom. I meditated upon getting the idea totake literary suggestions from listening to much Charlie

Parker, the saxophone player that week.

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I shut myself in my car on that cool, misty and drizzly



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morning and watched the crows in the parking lot peck onthe ground.

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Something seemed very strange about the way the crowsmoved on that grey day, and I believed then as I believenow that they were aliens.

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As I returned home before going off to visit my Mom, andas I put the groceries away I had noticed an exterminatortruck in the parking lot of one of the other units. I believedthat that truck was a decoy for some reason but I did not letit bother me, though I knew that the driver was mad

because he had not voted for Barack Obama.

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Perhaps the driver was part of the crew of builders who had been rebuilding our apartment complex. At any rate, I hadmy suspicions that the builders were against who I was and

perhaps they themselves were trying something. Some ofthose men were involved in the prostitution ring I knew

since I saw their cars drive up at all hours of the night tomeet with the prostitute a few floors above me.

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My Mom and I returned to her and my Pop's home abouttwenty minutes from mine.

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I decided to bring my wonderful big book of Shakespeare'sComplete Works. I was very excited to have gotten all ofthe new groceries as suggestions from my books I spedread.

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I drank some milk after reading a little while in that bookFalstaff's line about a cat stealing milk.

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Choosing food and other things by taking suggestions arekinds of sacrifices, Mitzvim, because I limited my ownfreedom to choose by allowing what I find to connect as astring does me with things to eat or be around.

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Jenny, my most mysterious wife decided that we should

play hydromancists and therefore wash the dishes in a veryspecial way as we listened to our music.

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She wanted to bless everything by playing and praying toHa-Shem with water.

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To make new combinations is a way to pray to God.

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We had recently come up with a new idea that in each filmwe made where we danced around while moving objects,that we would make $100.00 per new move.

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This idea helped my wife and I wash dishes in a verycreative and magical way. We moved to the music andthought of the ever flowing never-ending Ein-Soph of theKabbalah.

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We were concerned how to dance and put dishes in special places in which would permeate previous arrangements.

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By doing so, we made a kind of prayer and spaceflight ofmy Mom's and Dad's house to another world.



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We then moved on to the refrigerator magnets and arranged

them magically while dancing.

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I thought often of the builders, the kind of alien-masonswho seemed to have been banging upon the pipes of theuniverse.

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I awoke from a nap.

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Mom and Dad were having trouble on their computer.

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I found some bird decorations which I wanted in their bathroom.

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It was the afternoon, and my wives and I began to work onour special book Hawaiian Sonnets and Other Poems .

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We came up with the line: Serpent parents therefore winthe day.

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And, wrote another line: Father shore, motherhood reign,removes dreams dry.

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I was very proud of our writing.

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I had a strange feeling I was challenging my family in afamily romance to not take away bits and pieces of my life,the life which I was supposed to have lived throughout mywhole life.

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I remembered my family tree and the history of myrelatives.

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I remembered how I had descended.

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Who had caused others to resent me so that my life was being blocked? This was a question which I answered and

resolved to resolve and did that day.

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I got up from my writing to show my new lines to my Dad.

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Dad showed me a book on Buddhism and the environmentof the Buddhist's home.

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I figured out the riddle of why I had no life by thinkingmore of my own family's reasons for their beliefs.

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I gained a supreme hope that my life which I had blockedfrom me was going to be resurrected from out of the ashes Iwas so use to knowing.

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The book which my Angel wives and I were using forinspiration for the book we were writing was Harold



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Bloom's Stories and Poems for Extremely IntelligentChildren of All Ages.

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I went outside and rested in the grey mist on a bench.

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I loved the tree of my neighbor's home which looked like atree drawing on the cover of my book by Samuel Beckett.

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I checked my Facebook page.

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A lady with two beautiful white dogs walked by.

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I started to believe that my Mom was not really my Mom,and my Dad disguised too.

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My Mom was really Emily Dickinson, who was to be mynew wife, when the time was right, and my Dad hisyounger self helping me to remember her. It was another



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planet I was on.

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I became involved in an endgame within that home withthem.

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My Pop was to leave the home for good and I would bereunited with Emily.

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Just like in Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale , acharacter was to change into a partner for the narrator, andmy Mom, who was really Emily Dickinson, was soongoing to become more real as her.

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I was myself becoming my older and best self.

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It was not Earth anymore, and my wives had planned outthis special day for me as we flew the spacecraft/house tothis other alien world after we washed the dishes in ourspecial hydromantic way.



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I believed that I was royalty. And, I knew I was going to

have my marriage arranged to Emily. However, Iremembered that she was also Calypso from the Odysseyand that I would turn her and her immortality down to be

back on Earth with the Angel Penelope and my otherinvisible Angel wives.

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I backed out from her desires gracefully because I wantedto remain loyal to the rest of my wives.

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I therefore gave up immortality.

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This was the beginning of the end to a long day's endgame.I felt stranger than I had ever felt before.

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I had felt at home, that my Dad was backing away as hewas setting me up in a good way to marry Emily. But, inthat eternal palace, even though I knew it was the best

place for me, I knew that I must return back to wanderupon the Earth.



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My Mom was really an alien, who was the spirit and bodyof Emily Dickinson. She was helping me to remember her.Emily was disguised as my Mom, but she was alsoCalypso.

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In Emily's car, which was stuffed with Christmasdecorations to be hauled somewhere for storage, that nightI returned to my apartment on Earth, her driving.

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We picked up some medicine for me at the pharmacy drive-thru and I talked with her a bit. I said to her, quotingGroucho Marx, that "I would never be a member of a groupthat would have me as its member!" We laughed and I washome, and as she left I opened the bottle of SpumantiChampagne to celebrate my wives and our lives during thisvery special Machine Cloud Merkabah experience.

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Love and Angels

by

Shay McBride

Hi all (to the neighbors)!- B'nayvoovahHi B'nayvoovah.- Neighbors

Love and Angels.- Bertha

I must visualize Hope and Jill in order to hear them.- B'nayvoovah

Hope and Jill may sound a little muffled at first, but I willget used to it.- B'nayvoovah

What does Hope look like? What Jill?- B'nayvoovah

Shay and Tatania are gorgeous!



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- B'nayvoovah

Pattycake too! They all are.

- B'nayvoovah

Hi Sarah!- B'nayvoovahHi.- Sarah

Roll call.- B'nayvoovah to HopeRoll call.- Hope

Roll call.- B'nayvoovah to KellyRoll call.- Kelly

Hand versus ears.- Kelly

Jill's in my hand.- B'nayvoovah

Hope should not sound like my Mom.- B'nayvoovah

Remember more.



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- Hope

My Angel-wives always sound sweet to me.

- B'nayvoovah

What did the Italian diva say about singing?- RosalindaShe said to sing with a little smile always.- B'nayvoovah

Remember when Jill stopped being heard, when she cameinto your hand after telling you that she was an Angel.- Kelly

Things can change back.- Kelly

I desire very much to hear you all.- B'nayvoovah

My desire is progressive and hopeful.- B'nayvoovah

Either, in my room before, it was Hope or Jill I heardtaking turns.

- B'nayvoovah

How do I organize time with all of my 30 wives?- B'nayvoovah



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After my sensuality, we had a silent time for a while, thenit would start over.- B'nayvoovah

30 wives.- B'nayvoovah

Narrow your goals down.- Arielle

The positioning of Shay helps me to hear her.- B'nayvoovah

Shay is this or that close to me, and turned in this direction,and I talked with her.- B'nayvoovah

Remember Shay's quality of speech, and Teresa's, Arielle's,and the others who love me.- B'nayvoovah

They are playful without being ironical, and they don't jokeas much as Mom and Dad.- B'nayvoovah

So how do I remember to visualize them as I talk?- B'nayvoovah

In fact I wonder: how do I talk with them? What makes it possible?



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- B'nayvoovah

Talk with them can either be shortened speech or a lengthy

discussion.- B'nayvoovah

The lengthy discussion is the one I want to do with themand hear again.- B'nayvoovah

How do I find a lengthy discussion's subject matter withoutshortening it into speech (as in "Roll call"), and how do Ispeak in length without too much sensuality? And, how doI visualize them and not talk to Mom and Dad?- B'nayvoovah

How do I learn not to listen to Mom and Dad as much asthem?- B'nayvoovah

Enthusiasm is a great motivation for a chat.- B'nayvoovah

Tikvah (Hope) is also a great motivator for chat.- B'nayvoovah

Hope, social hope, is a great chat-motivator.- B'nayvoovah

Sociality is a great subject matter for the Angels and I.



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- B'nayvoovah

Sociality as life and visualization of Hope and Jill are my

goals.- B'nayvoovah

So why am I still writing?- B'nayvoovah

Maybe the writing can lead to social application?- B'nayvoovah

"Relationships and Dating" led a few times to a socialapplication.- Jill

I am a little addicted to joking with my parents.- B'nayvoovah

Bobby.- B'nayvoovah

Learn some patterns of the Angel's movements into positions.- Bertha

Slowly learn where they are in space.- Bertha

The subject matter you talk with your wives about is sweet



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stuff, and not the usual joking around with your parents.- Bertha

I toggle between close positioning and fantasy.- B'nayvoovah

Don't be so aggressive. Let your wives and friends choosefor you what to do and who will be seen.- Bertha

Wait for a kiss.- Bertha

Get comfortable. Jill may kiss you.- Bertha

How'd we do it before?- B'nayvoovahYou tapped it in you finger.- Jill

Can I tap into you now?- B'nayvoovahYes.- Jill

Commit to thinking about what you're talking about.- Jill

Triangles and more.



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- Jill

Freedom then truth.

- Jill

You have other commitments today, you're not as free aslast night.- Jill

18 shapes or more.- Marion

Scrape each one in layers and then dry it.- Bertha

Tape little bursts.- Shnoonah

Parallel direction of scrape.- Donna

Color scheme.- Shay

There could be slight differences.

There could be swatched parts.There could be a great variety.There could be just three or four.There could be two layers, one on bottom.- Kabbalah



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Subject matter?- Teresa

Scrapes in all different directions?- Teresa

Abstract and organic.- Teresa

Attractive colors.- Teresa

Batteries.- Teresa

DREAM: Made you look!

Andrew.

Picture's we've got pictures!

Memories yes, but renouncement of the situation: moon build a smile!

No pain.

You are an idiot, with my hands signing it.

Maybe if somebody can pull off the horseplay, I can.



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- Reverend Rineheart

Our clothes in the pictures changes: I became what I

beheld.- Joseph Beuys

Tob Shbeeb activated.

Non-sentimentality, not-schizophrenic, but perverseknowing.

Billy, that's how you play your synth!- Tob Shbeeb

I do that with y'all, it's just that if I ever did it with anybodyelse it would be different.

Metal Settle? Gold Mold?

Firebird.

That song I sang was a song in which I stared at cars going by.

Hey, Poncho nice car!

- Reginald

Long Long's enthusiastic fist pumping.

A variety of situations for horseplay.



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Dad the old geezer.

Maybe I could make up my own.Maybe I do on the piano.Maybe I will beyond it.

"Meno's slave remembering" as a kind of formula for all.

Knowing, perverse knowing and be-ing.

Ha-Kol B'Seder.

Moon build a smile.

Matt and Charlotte upstairs.

Maybe I can yell out Mike and David when that happens(Mike and David affecting me).

Michael!...and David!

Good Michael and David young.

Shape shifting and changing the environment.

I wonder if all successful dreams are uninhibited like that.

Moon build a smile and power our meeting.







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The titles of the books were finally changed.

Markings in margins have designators.

The final categories of the names were changed.

The titles are beautifully anonymous.

The story of the happy author and her treatise provided thedesignators as well as a meaning giving reason as to herdeeds of each text.

Nobody knows or seeks to know what happened to thewriter.

- Valerie

Dinosaurs and Warriors

A meteorite hit an area of Hawaii, it was on the news andthe crops became infected. Dinosaurs were eating thesecrops and becoming infected with the terrible sickness of

ancient dinosaurs long ago called hunger.

I was bouncing around through a landscape when I saw adinosaur herd chained to palm trees.





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The Boss was impressed at my boldness and stopped thesenseless killings of his guests.

I was impressing all with my confidence and found a swordin the other room which was stuck in the ground.

There was fighting going on still and I pulled it out.

Two men approached me, and I told one of them: I givethis sword to you.

The other one thought I would give it to him because helooked more like a warrior, but the first one got it and I

blessed them because they were my sons.

Then as we began to fight, there was no chance that theopponents would win so the fight was given up.

We were all of us concerned about the drugged plantswhich the dinosaurs were eating causing them to cravemeat.

I went into another room where the figure who insulted meas a blasphemer was and the guy next to me was veryscared of him, though I was not.

He suggested that we fight a battle against them, and Iwanted peace, so I remember that there was a problem

between those men on his side who wanted war, and minewho wished for peace.







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Falling into the devilish blue below,Falling into the hell of natureOf life and death,

Its own life goes outLike our lives which are feathersAnd then ashes in peace.

- Tov Tov Shalom

"The Blindness During Your Searching"

You learn not to be angryIf you must descend to the fools.

The thorny thorny purple leaves,Going on with their triumphs,Have learned what partingFrom the shaken vine is like.

The great tower of yourselfIs within the thorn and thorn.

You yourself understandThat the fiber ends

As you learn to part.

But, a tomb is questionedThroughout one's life.



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And, the thorns and thornsWill once again blind youIn your search for how to learn

And how to partFrom those thorns and thorns.

- Tov Tov Shalom

"Therefore Win the Day"

A light fight to knock down a fiery saying.

Check the date for a fun-orienting and a gold day.

Look at the serpent, wishing it away with a hope platein the wind and dew.

Blown candle rays waving "one, two, three..." playing pirates on celestial missions.

Soon on heaven's border, man warring with the goblins -Our pulled out missions of secret sayings.

Blowing birds in the rain cradled there -

Silent dome of a home of the dancing thunderbirds.

A brassy sea hell won, a wind bursting the fire and dew.

Pains of rocks in a mess, but a parent hopeful for America.





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The bad fire fee for its parent-made art.Magnetic night cat checking formulas to give.A bird's few meals on a masked snake con.

The sea bordering nothing wins the books by-and-by.Roll the bike away from the flames of hell.The knight's nose ruined by an idle stumbling dancing.A talking road head drunk with the loudest thoughts.Day-eagle of the sun, fire power flat.Wind breakers waving, children creeping to their Dad.Period full of wind and the date's meaningful quest.

- Kabbalah

Heavenly night. Resurrection night.Fresh and right about it.An ancient fight won.The light of oblivion.God's heights.However, those I knowAre slightly behind.

Returning to the past home.The traveling of ship and mast.Inventions amassed.

A sweet and chaste woman.The lunch was a blast.The lasting perfections.

- Kathleen and Yafah



Dan is a woodblock, a wet night.Dan's paradise is his past.

Dan is a wolf's tracks in the swamp-mud.Dan is a jack-n-the-box.Dan is the best that we've got.

Levi had a sweep sleep yesterday.Asher is gifted with lawmaking.Zebulun traveled to Scotland.Asher threw the trout back.Gad has no obligations to do at all.Judah is a lifesaver.Benjamin is a nightmare.Issachar is Mozartian.Simeon is isolated.

Napthali is a contemporary reader.Reuben is a duel to be fought.

- B'nayvoovah

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