4 Snippets for this Morning

Grammar

It doesn't matter
what we've lost,
nor does it matter
what we've gained.

More important is the difference
between laid and lain.


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Great Literature

When any kind of poop comes out,
people get up to stand and shout.
When anything intelligent is said,
people are inclined to read it in bed.


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True Merriment

Merry is the prince
who once was a pauper;
better yet is he
who shares it as he oughter.


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A Family Story

There once was a son
and a little daughter.
Split apart too young,
they've lately begun to remember
both the good and the bad
as the best we've had.


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yesterday and half the night I was hopelessly stuck in the endless task of putting together Medicaid re-certification papers before the end of the grace period, even.  Today at last, the final final deadline being met and copies made just this morning, the appropriate papers went off to the P.O. to be postmarked and by certified mail.  All this alone, over $7.00!  Normally they do send you a free postage-paid envelope for all of this s__t, but you see, I had already lost that, as well as the forms themselves that I had started filling out already.  It's not that everything gets thrown away.  Oh no, that in itself is part of the problem.  I have a hard time throwing anything away.  Then naturally what happens is the stuff I saved for no reason gets mixed up with the stuff I should know the whereabouts of.  Then this whole place becomes a cyclone as I throw books, files, pieces of used chewing gum, bookmarks, shoelaces, whatever, around everywhere, could be on the bed, the floor, the ceiling even, if that were possible.

So I now breathe a sigh to all of that.  Thank the Lord and Holy Jesus, and Mother Mary too. All done with that.  But oh no, more problems this afternoon?  You bet.

whoops again

The most obvious reason why anyone would not want to appear anywhere in any public gathering, of course is the dreadful violence we are seeing everywhere in this country.

Of course, I missed a few things and said a few things wrong......

yes, yes, and yes, I slipped up entirely by reporting everything I knew already and so many other things I had to say about our Bob Dylan.  sure, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  Why not? I thought long ago he deserved that much justly for uniting and enlightening a large part of our planet Earth on World Peace and also introducing himself as the one notably originally Jewish person, like me, who had also made that awesome (for some) leap from (even one enlightened standpoint on Judaism) into the completely new area called True Christianity.

Without even so much as one or two good deep breaths, no one but he could have started out with his famous song "Blowin in the Wind" to make that one song so well-known all over the world.  Much later to follow with "Long Train Coming," the  most splendiferous of all his albums.  "Blood on the Tracks" was out of this world completely.  The list of his songs is so long I haven't begun to listen to them all yet.  To see him shuffling up to the microphone or even if there wasn't any microphone, casually walking up on stage saying, "I think you must have the wrong guy...." well, you can see that too, on Youtube.

Sure, I said first of all the neatest and best way for two kindred spirits to unite and both accept Pulitzers or any other kind of prizes together, for lifetime achievement awards, would be to bring them together.  Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot.

Any more to be said I just don't have time for now before I prepare dinner.