On Jun 20, 6:32=A0pm, Amanda Reid <scrawlm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jun 20, 6:23 am, Sherrie Lee <sherriel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > On Jun 17, 1:52 pm, Amanda Reid <scrawlm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 226
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> > > The thunder pounds my window and the sky
> > > Releases still more green to stain the ground;
> > > The cat alerts one ear, but constant sound
> > > Dulls even soldiers to the softest lie,
> > > And she is inside. =A0Soon enough, to try
> > > The rabbit, blackbird, blade of grass she found
> > > Unlike all others. =A0Dreaming that the hound
> > > Sniffs bombs in no man's land, her time goes by
> > > =A0 As mine does not. =A0Again the clock reads two
> > > As if I had no other thing to say
> > > And less to know, than that the world took you,
> > > And took you here or there, but took away.
> > > Whatever there appears to do,
> > > The time is -- wrong. =A0But I'm right twice a day.
>
> > It only now hit me how this must have ...
>
> > Say this is the thunder and not the bomb
> > The glass could be the bomb, the sky
> > And the sky in pieces is green
> > And more than new, swirling
> > Like Northern Lights
> > And how can they be seen?
> > Through something
>
> > The thunder pounds
>
> Ekshully, spring (for one more day) thunderstorms up here turn a
> sickly green on the fringes of tornado cells (it's one of the things
> you looked for before Doppler radar, and is a damsight more accurate).
> =A0 That, and the hair on your eyeballs stands up...
> =A0 Also on the fringies, the light (that doesn't come through the
> middle of a real banger) turns all green going through all the water
> on all the leaves, grass, yatta, a refraction you don't get from dry
> greens.
> =A0 It's enough to make you question your health, or what planet you're
> on.
> =A0 Maybe.
There's probably a green like that around here, only not;
maybe more like how the squirrel tails here are scrawny
and up there they're bushy-full, the tornadoes green the same.
Tornados here are skinny.
Giant Hurricanes differ but are more grey.
> > =A0 =A0 *
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 Trying to sleep more.
>
> Good.
> =A0 (And good for what ails ya.)
>
>
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 Peace comes soon. Four day vacay! =A0Sleep, when it's
force=
d when
> > living by the World's clock, [...] yet, sleep discipline is useful in
> > the ordinary world.
>
> Dunno. =A0Never achieved it.
> =A0 (I've got the world's worst sleeping disorder, a 30-hour bioclock.)
> =A0 (Hey, maybe I'm not from around here.)
I have noticed that you've posted at various times.
2-ish being the more often. (the 2 in the poem?)
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 [...]
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 But in the down time, your own time, feed on food that
help=
s the
> > body glow, like blueberries (no, not "glow like blueberries"; [...])
>
> Why not? =A0You could be on /Star Trek: =A0The Next Color/.
> =A0 (Wait -- they already did a blue stripper on /Star Wars/.)
I can't resist. It's Julian's favorite alien:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marta.jpg
> > and oranges and legumes, too.
>
> Orange and Green? =A0What, are you from Ulster?
> =A0 You could be a character who was orange on the left and green on the
> right, and you'd be mortal enemies with a character (also played by
> yourself) who was green on the left and orange on the right, and
> Captain Quirk would beam the two of you and a camera crew into a mud
> pit, and...
>
> Oh. =A0Right. =A0Frank Gor****n already did that one.
> =A0 (And he was green all over, IIRC.)
For the Nivea Skin Whitening Cream thread:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 And swim, swim, swim! Feel every muscle! Or whatever your
> > exercise (you do).
>
> I do elbow bends in the presence of pizza.
>
> > *
>
> > I'm sure SH 226 got inside like a cat that pounced on me >before< I
> > knew it!
>
> Good. =A0It's spoZe to.
> =A0 tnx.
I should have said "sprung" not "pounced".
You're immortal, Dennis, if the Dalai Lama is to be believed:
"Share your knowledge; it's a way to achieve immortality."
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