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The
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Newsletter
Vol. VIII, No. XIV
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the spring gods
drunk with innocent power
stumble beneath the april sun
that slowly warms
their earthern altar
the inconstant daffodils
come and go
come and go
with great alacrity
their early deaths contrasting
with the ethereal promise
with the ethereal promise
of a world grown young
still again
Lisa Jain Thompson c. 2007 C.E.
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The first of April is the day we remember
what we are the other 364 days of the year.
- Mark Twain
what we are the other 364 days of the year.
- Mark Twain
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april already, the smell of taxes in the air
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the spring sky
Venus
Venus
March bright post equinox
Above a blinking chopper
March bright post equinox
Above a blinking chopper
Flying low overhead at morning;
-- School buses idle,
-- School buses idle,
Still warming at their curbs,
Children gathering along their routes --
The early silence not yet overwhelmed
By background voice of trucks and autos
Or the shouts and pushes
Of excited young primates
Rushing reluctantly
To and from their trainers.
The early silence not yet overwhelmed
By background voice of trucks and autos
Or the shouts and pushes
Of excited young primates
Rushing reluctantly
To and from their trainers.
Lisa Jain Thompson
April 2007
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President's Daughters Enlist in Marine Corps
"We support Daddy's War"
"We support Daddy's War"
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sources
Out of the Valley Darkness
The desert made us,
Rose us up as nomads
To scatter across the face of earth
Until we no longer remember
Our life in the forest
Or when our hunting bands
To scatter across the face of earth
Until we no longer remember
Our life in the forest
Or when our hunting bands
Became tribes and villages
And weapons of war.
Lisa Jain Thompson
April 2007
April 2007
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Pope Declares Jesus was Gay
Introduces partner of twenty years
Introduces partner of twenty years
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From the BBC
US Marines prohibit large tattoos
The US Marines are banning the wearing of large tattoos, saying they do not represent "traditional values". Tattoos on the head or neck, or large tattoos on arms or legs will not be allowed. Marines already with the tattoos are exempt.
Unit commanders are photographing and documenting all existing tattoos to make sure Marines do not touch them up. Dozens of Marines are reportedly queuing up at tattoo parlours to beat the deadline.
Marines have long been banned from having racist or sexist tattoos.
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When I woke up this morning I was surprised to learn
that my house in Virginia
is located a mile inside Iranian territorial waters.
that my house in Virginia
is located a mile inside Iranian territorial waters.
Who knew?
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poetical impressions
The Writer
Does it matter
That the person who writes this
That the person who writes this
Still lives,
That the ink on this paper
Still smears
As I my fingertips pass?
Still smears
As I my fingertips pass?
Would these words
Seem so much better,
If my bones lay undisturbed
Seem so much better,
If my bones lay undisturbed
Beneath some stone mason's craft;
Or if only fragments survived
The fortunes of time's passing
And the inconstant wrath of the gods?
The fortunes of time's passing
And the inconstant wrath of the gods?
When we are gone,
All else is matter,
And matter's little more
Than air and shadows.
All things considered,
I would rather be here
Than in some graduate's incisive thesis
Or an underpaid professor's
Over-educated dissection.
Than in some graduate's incisive thesis
Or an underpaid professor's
Over-educated dissection.
Lisa Jain Thompson
April 2007
April 2007
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Sanjaya wins American Idol
Best Singer Ever Says Simon
Best Singer Ever Says Simon
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life goes one
Caught Between a Rock and a Roll
(Tears on my Pillow)
When did Rhythm and Blues
Become a white man's game?
Is everyone too busy
Become a white man's game?
Is everyone too busy
Playing basketball and gangsta
To learn how to sing?
All the bling in the world
Is worth a whole shitpot less
All the bling in the world
Is worth a whole shitpot less
Than Robert Johnson
And a pink Cadillac,
And a pink Cadillac,
Or Chuck on the corner,
Taking us back
To vinyl monaural,
Single tracked,
To vinyl monaural,
Single tracked,
When we were all sixteen
And music ruled
And music ruled
The minutes of our lives.
Lisa Jain Thompson
April 2007
April 2007
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Gabrielle Announces End of The World
Lets George Bush Blow His Horn
Lets George Bush Blow His Horn
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Foolish Things
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence:
t's good to be silly at the right moment.
t's good to be silly at the right moment.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
So, rather than appear foolish afterward,
I renounce seeming clever now.
I renounce seeming clever now.
- William of Baskerville in 'The Name of the Rose'
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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overheard in a bar
Style Points
Ah, you'd think she was a lesbian,
If it weren't for her fingernails,
As if all the women in the world
Divided into athletic length or fills.
If it weren't for her fingernails,
As if all the women in the world
Divided into athletic length or fills.
There are more flavors on this earth
Than you have tasted
In your circle of lovers and girlfriends.
Than you have tasted
In your circle of lovers and girlfriends.
What is commonplace among your bed dates
Is some small town's ancient history
And still another's cutting edge avant-garde
Denounced as radical heresy.
Whatever is fit and proper
Will one day soon be outdated;
What ever is outrageously outré
Will soon be boringly sedative.
Will one day soon be outdated;
What ever is outrageously outré
Will soon be boringly sedative.
The trick is to know
Which is which
And when is where,
And then not give
A good tinker's damn
What the current rules
And when is where,
And then not give
A good tinker's damn
What the current rules
Might demand of you.
Lisa Jain Thompson
April 2007
April 2007
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Soprano's Ends Without A Whacking
Tony Renounces Violence
Enters Ordo Fratrum Minorum
Tony Renounces Violence
Enters Ordo Fratrum Minorum
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first love
Katie
Decades ago,
In a land far, far away,
Katie first stole my heart
Then did not stay.
Dark haired and eyed,
She took me to her,
Held me close
In the august night
Along the valley delta,
Only to forget me
When the autumn chill
Drew her to another
Who offered her
What I could not,
Katie first stole my heart
Then did not stay.
Dark haired and eyed,
She took me to her,
Held me close
In the august night
Along the valley delta,
Only to forget me
When the autumn chill
Drew her to another
Who offered her
What I could not,
Leaving me alone
To watch the full moon rise
Across the banks
Of the Sacramento.
Across the banks
Of the Sacramento.
I remember her lips,
Her soft wet touch,
The feel of her hair
Across my face,
The eager rush of her love
The moment we met,
And the emptiness
She leaves deep inside me
As I write these aging words.
Her soft wet touch,
The feel of her hair
Across my face,
The eager rush of her love
The moment we met,
And the emptiness
She leaves deep inside me
As I write these aging words.
Lisa Jain Thompson
April 2007
April 2007
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You don't get rich writing science fiction.
If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
- L. Ron Hubbard
science fiction writer and founder of Scientology
science fiction writer and founder of Scientology
14th day of April 1993
for use in a lawsuit
in the Federal Republic of Germany
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nothing in blue is true
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Copyright © Lisa Jain Thompson 1995-2007. Further distribution of this newsletter in its entirety is authorized. Email your letters and postcards or visit her contact page at the Starpoet website.
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PEACE
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